Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

The Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Collection was gifted to the UMKC Libraries by Jeannie Cheatham in February 2009. The collection documents the personal and professional lives of Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham. Also highlighted is the history of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, which was birthed by the Cheathams in 1983.

Items in Collection: 538

Topics

Black History & Representation

Indigenous History & Representation

Jazz, Big Band, & Music Industry

Kansas City History

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

Two unidentified white male jazz musicians on stage performing; the man in glasses on the left is playing trombone, and the man in the striped shirt is playing a trumpet and using a mute; a microphone...

Date Published

1981

1990

Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band standing in front of a bus (Jimmy Cheatham, Dinky Morris, Jeannie Cheatham, Rickey Woodard, unidentified white woman in a red jacket, Curtis Peagler, Clora Bryant...

Date Published

1981

1990

Digital Collections

Eubie Blake dancing with Maxine Sullivan on his birthday

Jazz musicians performing

Sweet Baby Blues Band in front of the bus

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