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Big Mama Thornton at the microphone

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Big Mama Thornton singing into a microphone held close to her mouth; she's wearing a straw hat and facing to the left of the photo.

Date Published
1984

Big Mama Thornton singing

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Big Mama Thornton singing into a microphone; wearing a cowboy hat and sparkly floral patterned shirt; head turned to look over to the right.

Date Published
1981
1990

Big Mama Willie Mae Thornton

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Big Mama Thornton holding a microphone close to her face; wearing a cowboy hat, pinstripe suit jacket and looking at the camera smiling.

Date Published
1971
1980

Clora Bryant with her award plaque

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Clora Bryant standing with upraised arms and holding her plaque for winning the Zora Neale Hurston Award given by the National Association of Black Storytellers in 2006 in San Diego; Clora is wearing...

Date Published
2006-11

Curtis Peagler and others at the Blue Note

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Clora Bryant, Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Rickey Woodard (saxophone), Dinky Morris (saxophone) and an unidentified double bassist on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; Peagler and Morris are...

Date Published
1989-06

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage

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Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; Jeannie, in red, is seated at a piano, playing and singing into a microphone; Jimmy, wearing a red hat, is doing something at the...

Date Published
1989-06

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage

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Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; Jeannie, in red, is seated at a piano, playing and singing into a microphone; Jimmy, wearing a red hat, is doing something at the...

Date Published
1989-06

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 and Nolan Smith

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Jimmy Cheatham next to Nolan Smith; both viewed from the side facing the left of the photo and looking down at something and laughing; Cheatham in a red hat; at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego.

Date Published
1995-07-05

Jimmy Cheatham and others at the Blue Note

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler, Rickey Woodard, Dinky Morris (saxophones) on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; members of a crowded audience can be seen below...

Date Published
1989-06

Jimmy Cheatham and others on stage

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler, Rickey Woodard, Dinky Morris (saxophones) on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; members of a crowded audience can be seen below...

Date Published
1989-06

Jimmy Cheatham playing trombone

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Jimmy Cheatham on stage playing trombone and using a red mute with a microphone in front of him; he's wearing a black outfit and black hat with white band; at a night club on Harbor Island, San Diego.

Date Published
1981
1990

Jimmy Cheatham playing trombone at the Jazz Showcase

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Jimmy Cheatham standing playing trombone and wearing a red hat; behind him Jeannie Cheatham is seated at a piano; both have microphones in front of them; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Date Published
1989-06

Jimmy Cheatham receiving an award

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Jimmy Cheatham on stage accepting an award from an unidentified man; Jimmy is wearing all white and a hat; cymbals can be seen behind them and they are standing by a microphone.

Date Published
1985

Jimmy Cheatham, Clora Bryant, and Curtis Peagler

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler (saxophone), on stage with unidentified double bassist at the Blue Note in New York City; Jimmy is turned to the left of the photo...

Date Published
1989-06

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

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler and Rickey Woodard (saxophones) playing on stage together at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; Cheatham and Peagler are wearing red hats

Date Published
1989-06

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Rickey Woodard (saxophone), Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Dinky Morris (saxophone), and Ironman Harris (drums, partly hidden) all on stage performing...

Date Published
1989-06

Shaking the Emcee's hand

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Unidentified African American man in a red sweater and blue pants bowing and shaking the hands of man, likely an emcee, with a microphone; behind them are Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, Rickey Woodard...

Date Published
1989-06

Thad Jones speaking into a microphone

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Thad Jones speaking into a microphone he's holding with one hand while onstage at the University of Wisconsin, Madison; he's wearing a sweater and dark hat and is turned to left of the photo.

Date Published
1975-10