Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. Miller is smiling widely while looking...

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. The bassist's face is mostly turned away from the...

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. The bassist's face is mostly turned away from the...

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. The bassist's face is mostly turned away from the...

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. The bassist's face is mostly turned away from the...

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double bass. Miller is smiling widely while looking at the...

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. Miller is smiling widely...

Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. Miller is smiling widely...

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel. Miller is smiling widely while looking...

Bettye Miller greeting fans. She's speaking with a white man and an African American man holding a hat and possibly a performance program looks on.

Bettye Miller standing next to a large television set in a hotel room. She's wearing a black dress with pearls and facing the camera, smiling.

Bettye Miller on stage wearing a long white dress with floral accents. Facing the camera and smiling.

Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass, and an unidentified white man on drums, performing. Miller is facing the camera and the drummer's face is seen only from the side. Unknown venue.

Bettye Miller posing on stage in a white dress with floral elements. Facing the camera.

Snapshot of Bettye Miller standing in front of a car parked in the lot in front of a large, unidentified, building. She's wearing plaid pants, a jacket, and a headscarf with sunglasses.

Bettye Miller seated in front of a microphone while playing piano. She's looking at the camera and smiling widely.

Bettye Miller playing piano in a living room. The top of the piano includes candlesticks and a Jayhawk figurine. She's facing the camera and smiling.

Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the piano and a large column is to the side of the piano.

Bettye Miller playing piano. A curtain is close behind her and a microphone is set up in front of her. She's turned to the camera and smiling.

Bettye Miller playing piano and turning around to look over at the camera. An unidentified bassist (likely Milt Abel) is partially seen next to her. Three audience members (two white women and a white...

Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the piano and a large column is to the side of the piano.

Close up view of Bettye Miller playing piano while wearing sunglasses. The keyboard is seen as a reflection in her lenses.

Bettye Miller playing a xylophone set up next to her piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass at the right.

Bettye Miller autographing her LP while holding against the shoulder of an unidentified white man. Five other unidentified white men are line up behind Miller and watching.

Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass visible.