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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling at the camera while playing piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt shaker on the piano in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling while playing piano and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a trio

Image

Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass, and an unidentified white man on drums, performing. Miller is facing the camera and the drummer's face is...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Buck Clayton playing trumpet

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet at the edge of a stage with a piano on it.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton playing trumpet

Image

Buck Clayton playing trumpet with a piano in the foreground.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

Image

Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Jazz band

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Unidentified jazz ensemble with singer performing; all African Americans and includes a double bassist, drummer, pianist and woman singer in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Maureen Smith playing the piano

Image

Maureen Smith stands with her left side to the photographer and turns her head toward her left shoulder to smile at the photographer as she stands...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Dolores Hobley Collection

Playing to a large audience

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing in front of a large crowd of white men and women standing in front of them. Photo taken...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Portrait of Bettye Miller at the piano

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Portrait photograph of Bettye Miller seated at a piano with her hand pressing down keys. Looking at the camera.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Portrait of Bettye Miller at the piano

Image

Promotional portrait photo of Bettye Miller seated at the piano and leaning in toward the camera, smiling.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Portrait of Bettye Miller in front of a piano

Image

Promotional photo of Betty Miller standing in front of a piano.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Unidentified man playing piano at Club Trocadero

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Unidentified African American man playing piano; Club Trocadero; Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Priscilla Bowman Collection

Warren Durrett and others at the piano in a recording studio

Image

High-angle shot of Warren Durrett seated at the piano in a recording studio, four unidentified white men behind him, one holding a cigarette. Two...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

Warren Durrett and others at the piano in a recording studio

Image

Low-angle shot of Warren Durrett seated at the piano in a recording studio, four unidentified white men behind him, one holding a cigarette. Two...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

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Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (17)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (3)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)
  • Priscilla Bowman Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (27)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (27)
  • Gelatin silver prints (27)
  • Snapshots (21)
  • Group portraits (17)
  • Portrait photographs (10)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (25)

Subjects

  • Pianists (24)
  • Jazz musicians (23)
  • African American jazz musicians (21)
  • African American women (21)
  • African American men (16)
  • Double bass (15)
  • Double bassists (14)
  • Musical instruments (14)
  • Men, White (12)
  • Drum set (11)
  • Microphone (10)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (9)
  • Porches (9)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Cigarette smokers (2)
  • Salt shakers (2)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (2)
  • Sound studios (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Birdcages (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • (-) Piano (27)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Chicago (Ill.) (1)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (17)
  • Brown, Corky (9)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (5)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (2)
  • Durrett, Warren (2)
  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Smith, Maureen (Pianist) (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (27)
  • (-) 1960 (27)

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