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Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

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This collection documents the personal and professional lives of blues musicians and married couple 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

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Rehearsal at the Jazz Showcase

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Jimmy Cheatham with Clora Bryant, and Rickey Woodard during a rehearsal at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; Cheatham is pointing with his arm and Woodard has a hand to his face; a sign for the Jazz...

Date Published

1989-06

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Band directors
Woodard, Rickey

Types (Collection)

photographs (1)

Genres (Collection)

Color photographs (1)
Group portraits (1)
Snapshots (1)

Time Periods (Collection)

1981-1990 (1)

Subjects (Collection)

African American band directors (1)
African American jazz musicians (1)
African American women musicians (1)
Jazz musicians (1)
Musical instruments (1)
Music rehearsals (1)
Saxophone (1)
Saxophonists (1)
Signs and signboards (1)
Trombone (1)
Trombonists (1)
Trumpet (1)
Trumpet players (1)
(-) Band directors (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Bryant, Clora, 1927- (1)
Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
(-) Woodard, Rickey (1)

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