Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Publicity photo featuring the 1988 Playboy Jazz Festival line-up: Ray Charles, Jay Beckenstein, Timeless All-Stars, Jon Faddis, Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, Dizzy Gillespie, Ahmad Jamal, Dave Valentin...

Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band posing for a photo while at an airport (Red Callender, Dinky Morris, Ironman Harris, Clora Bryant, Rickey Woodard. Curtis Pegler, Jeannie Cheatham, an unidentified...

Jimmy Cheatham directing an unidentified jazz band (likely a UCSD band) on an outdoor stage at the La Jolla Jazz Festival; photo taken with Cheatham's back to the camera and the camera at a higher...

Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band (Dinky Morris, Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, unidentified, Curtis Peagler, Rickey Woodard, unidentified, and Ironman Harris) on stage performing at the Jazz Showcase...

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's wearing a jacket and cowboy hat and looking over to the...

Publicity photograph featuring a gesticulating Cab Calloway in a white suit, a clarinet by his side, and Jeannie Cheatham, also in white, seated at a piano and looking over her shoulder back towards...

Cab Calloway on stage directing a band with Jeannie Cheatham playing piano; eleven other band members are shown wearing black and Calloway and Cheatham wearing white; sign on stage behind the band...

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham seated at a table and speaking to an unidentified African American man in a white jacket; two other unidentified people are seen on the level above them; at the Jazz...

Jimmy Cheatham standing behind Jeannie, seated in a yellow chair, with Dinky Morris, Ironman Harris, and another unidentified man standing beside them; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Jimmy Cheatham standing behind Jeannie, seated in a yellow chair, with Dinky Morris, Ironman Harris, and two unidentified other men (one African American, one white) standing beside them; at the Jazz...

Mel Lewis, Jeannie Cheatham, Jay McShann, and Jimmy Cheatham all standing together outside of a white luxury car in a parking lot for a photo; Jimmy is carrying a stack of papers in one hand; hills...

Jeannie Cheatham seated in a yellow chair with Jimmy Cheatham standing behind her; Dinky Morris is seated on the right and three unidentified white people are also standing and sitting around her...

Jeannie Cheatham, seated in a yellow chair, with Jimmy Cheatham standing beside her and Dinky Morris and another unidentified man seated beside her; other people are seen standing about including one...

Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham with Dinky Morris, Ironman Harris, wearing sunglasses, and one other, unidentified man posing for a photo together; everyone but the unidentified man is wearing a matching...

Clora Bryant and Curtis Peagler seated side by side and facing the left of the photo; Peagler is wearing a red hat; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Clora Bryant with her trumpet in her arms with Curtis Peagler at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; both are clapping their hands and Peagler is wearing a red hat.

Clora Bryant, Curtis Peagler, and Dinky Morris, standing with an unidentified group of three Women , one holding a toddler; Peagler and Morris are standing behind the main group; at the Jazz Showcase...

Clora Bryant seated with an unidentified woman and two girls standing around her; the youngest child's back is to the camera; Clora is looking to the left at the woman; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago...

Clora Bryant seated next to Rickey Woodard who is leaning back in his chair; both looking toward the left of the photo; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Clora Bryant standing next to and looking at Curtis Peagler who is wearing a red hat, sunglasses, and has his arms outspread in mid-clap; Red Callender is playing bass behind them and a sign for the...

Cora Bryant playing trumpet at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; a number of audience members (all white men) can be seen seated behind her; she's facing the left of the photo.

Clora Bryant in a red dress with a large red flower in her hair playing trumpet amidst the audience at the Blue Note in New York City; behind her is Rickey Woodard playing his saxophone; she is facing...

Cora Bryant playing trumpet and using a mute at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; a sign reading "Jazz Showcase" is hanging on the wall behind her; also behind her are two other unidentified men.

Curtis Peagler and Clora Bryant seated and speaking with each other; Clora on the right is looking toward Curtis, in sunglasses, on the left; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Clora Bryant playing trumpet right into the ear of a laughing African American man in a tan jacket; Rickey Woodard can be seen in the background; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.