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Band performing

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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...

Date Published
1989-06

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage

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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...

Date Published
1983

Cheatham's Jazz Showcase performing

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"Cheatham's Jazz Showcase" performance showing vocalist Gene Lee in a white jacket in front of a microphone while the rest of the band is behind him with Jimmy Cheatham conducting (back to the camera)...

Date Published
1959

Cheatham's Jazz Showcase performing

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"Cheatham's Jazz Showcase" performance showing vocalist Gene Lee in a white jacket in front of a microphone while the rest of the band is behind him with Jimmy Cheatham conducting (back to the camera)...

Date Published
1959

Curtis Peagler on break

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Curtis Peagler standing with his saxophone while holding a white coffee mug; he's wearing a black shirt, sunglasses, red suspenders, and a red beret; behind is Ironman Harris seated at his drum set...

Date Published
1989-06

Dinky Morris and Ironman Harris performing together

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Dinky Morris (saxophone) in a red hat and Ironman Harris (drums) on stage together at the Blue Note in New York City; instruments, microphones, and several members of the audience can be seen as well...

Date Published
1989-06

Dinky Morris with Jimmy Cheatham and others

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Dinky Morris (saxophone) playing with two unidentified trombonists and a scarcely seen drummer in front of a fireplace at an unknown venue.

Date Published
1971
1980

Dinky Morris with two girls

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Dinky Morris, with two of his saxophones and wearing a red vest and matching hat, speaking to two young African American girls; one in a grey checked dress and the other in white dress; the girl in...

Date Published
1989-06

Eubie Blake dancing with Maxine Sullivan on his birthday

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Eubie Blake dancing with Maxine Sullivan with jazz musicians playing for them (Billy Taylor, piano ; Max Kaminsky, trumpet ; Tyree Glenn, trombone ; Tony Parenti, clarinet ; Charles McGee (likely)...

Date Published
1972-02-11

Ironman Harris and friend

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Ironman Harris and an unidentified woman (white), both dressed in capes as vampires, on stage and drawing close to each other; part of a drum set and paper streamers can be seen behind them; at a...

Date Published
1981
1990

Ironman Harris playing drums

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Ironman Harris playing drums and facing the left of the photo; next to him Red Callender is playing bass; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Date Published
1989-06

Ironman Harris with young boy

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Ironman Harris with unidentified, young white boy (around three years old); the boy is seated at Harris' drum set with Harris standing behind him and smiling; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Date Published
1989-06

Jazz band

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Unidentified jazz ensemble with singer performing; all African Americans and includes a double bassist, drummer, pianist and woman singer in front of a microphone.

Date Published
1951
1960

Jeannie Cheatham and others on stage

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Partial view of Jeannie Cheatham playing piano at the right of the photo, with a partial view of an unidentified white male double bassist and drummer Ironman Harris performing; on Harbor Island, San...

Date Published
1981
1984

Jeannie Cheatham playing piano

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Jeannie Cheatham playing piano on stage, partially obscured, with the hands of an unidentified white male double bassist seen on the left and Jimmy Cheatham with his back to the camera standing behind...

Date Published
1981
1984

Jeannie Cheatham playing piano outside

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Jeannie Cheatham playing piano and singing into a microphone at an outdoor venue (likely the campus of UC San Diego); Red Callender (double bass) and Ironman Harris (drums) are accompanying her; she's...

Date Published
1986-06

Jeannie Cheatham with Sippie Wallace

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Jeannie Cheatham seated at a piano on stage while looking over at Sippie Wallace in a hat standing in front of a microphone and looking to the right; part of a drum set and an unidentified, seated...

Date Published
1983

Jeannie Cheatham with Sippie Wallace

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Jeannie Cheatham standing next to a piano on stage while looking over at Sippie Wallace in a hat standing and singing in front of a microphone; part of a drum set and an unidentified, seated, white...

Date Published
1983

Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Publicity photo for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" (filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach) featuring a performance shot of Jeannie Cheatham seated at a piano looking over at...

Date Published
1983

Jimmy Cheatham playing trombone

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Jimmy Chatham on stage playing trombone and using a red mute; Dinky Morris holding his saxophone is standing behind him and there's a microphone in front of them; a drum set and paper decorations can...

Date Published
1981
1990

Jo Jones with Big Mama Thornton on drums

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Big Mama Thornton seated and playing drums with Joe Jones standing next to her observing with a cigarette in one hand; Edmund Hall and two others can be seen behind them.

Date Published
1967

Mary Lou Williams playing piano

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View from the side of Mary Lou Williams playing piano (facing the right) with a chorus of Women singers, including Jeannie Cheatham, behind her; also seen is an unidentified African American male...

Date Published
1976

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Rickey Woodard (clarinet), Dinky Morris (saxophone), and Ironman Harris (drums) all on stage at the Jazz Showcase in...

Date Published
1989-06