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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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Sweet Baby Blues Band in front of the bus

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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

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School buses

Types (Collection)

photographs (1)

Genres (Collection)

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

Time Periods (Collection)

1981-1990 (1)

Subjects (Collection)

African American jazz musicians (1)
African American women jazz singers (1)
Banners (1)
Drummers (Musicians) (1)
Jazz musicians (1)
Pianists (1)
Saxophonists (1)
Signs and signboards (1)
Trombonists (1)
Trumpet players (1)
Women, White (1)
Women jazz musicians (1)
Women pianists (1)
(-) School buses (1)

Subjects, People (Collection)

Bryant, Clora, 1927- (1)
Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
Cheatham, Jimmy (1)
Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (1)
Morris, Dinky (1)
Peagler, Curtis (1)
Woodard, Rickey (1)

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