Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Shirley Jean Wilcher, Jeannie Cheatham's daughter.

Sign holding posters for upcoming shows at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago including Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham with the Sweet Baby Blues Band on June 20 to 25, 1989.

Sipho Dunene playing drums; turned to the left.

View from in front of a piano of the screen showing a slide of Jeannie Cheatham as a teenager that was part of a presentation of Jeannie's life during "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham...

Publicity photo of Snooky Young holding his trumpet; body is turned to the left and head turned back to the front to look at the camera; wearing a white jacket and hat.

Unidentified woman in light blue traditional African dress seated in front of microphone with a book in her lap telling a story; at the Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference in...

Jimmy Cheatham looking surprised; wearing a hat, white turtleneck and dark colored sweater or vest with two pens hanging on the collar; facing the camera.

Sweet Baby Blue Band members in front of the audience while playing "Meet me with your black drawers on" as a finale at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at the Museum of Making...

Sweet Baby Blue Band playing their finale at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at the Museum of Making Music's 7th Annual Gala; photo taken from behind the audience which can be...

Sweet Baby Blues Band members performing (Ralph Penland, drums ; Nolan Smith, trumpet ; George Bohanon, trombone ; Jeff Clayton and Louis Taylor, saxophones); on stage at "An Evening of Note"...

Composite photo of four publicity photos of Sweet Baby Blues Band Guest Artists: Charles McPherson, Lockjaw Davis, Papa John Creach, Eddie Vinson; all with their instruments and names printed under...

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...

Sweet Baby Blues Band's horn section: Nolan Shaheed (trumpet), George Bohanon (trombone), Jeff Clayton (tenor sax), Louis Taylor (clarinet), and John Stephens (baritone sax) performing on stage at "An...

Publicity photo of Sweets Edison, holding his trumpet, with Illinois Jacquet, playing his saxophone; Jacquet is seated in a chair and facing toward the left; Edison is also seated and facing forward...

Publicity photo of Sweets Edison, holding his trumpet, with Illinois Jacquet, playing his saxophone; Jacquet is seated in a chair and facing toward the left; Edison is also seated and facing forward...

Ironman Harris at his drum set while below and to the side of him are seated Dinky Morris, Clora Bryant, and Curtis Peagler; Morris has his saxophone and is wearing a red beret as is Peagler; Peagler...

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.

Jeannie Cheatham, Melba Liston, and Clora Bryant seated and posing together for a photo; all facing the camera and smiling; other people can be seen in the background.

Three unidentified white men in blue jumpsuits, each covered in advertising patches; a bar is behind them; on Harbor Island, San Diego.

Toddler girl in pigtails wearing all white clothes and shoes seated on a couch next to a blanket; likely the Cheatham's daughter Shirley.

Unidentified toddler seated at Ironman Harris' drum set and holding drumsticks; Harris is standing behind him; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Unidentified African American trumpet player holding two trumpets (one in each hand) on his lap; seated and turned to the left with his head turned to face the camera.

Two unidentified African American men seated at a table across from Clora Bryant and Rickey Woodard at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; the unidentified elderly man on the left is wearing a light blue...

Unidentified white male double bassist on stage; cymbals and sound equipment are seen around him; on Harbor Island, San Diego.

Unidentified bald man, possibly acting as an emcee, on stage in front of a microphone and wearing a bright, pea green, jacket; various instruments are seen around him including a blue drum set, double...