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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 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 playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano. A curtain is close behind her and a microphone is set up in front of her. She's turned to the camera and smiling.

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

Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient

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Board members, nurses, physicians, and a patient (all white) with KMBC radio journalists at Children's Mercy Hospital. They are sitting in a circle...

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

Jay McShann at the piano

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Jay McShann in a suit and tie seated at a piano with a recording microphone above the piano; facing to the right.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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

Postcard featuring disc jockey Georgie Woods

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Unsent postcard featuring Georgie Woods holding a record album and with a microphone bearing the legend WHAT (Philadelphia radio station) at the top...

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

Red Richards in the studio

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Red Richards seated in a sound studio with a microphone hanging just to his left.

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

Red Richards playing piano and singing

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Red Richards playing piano and singing into a microphone.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 1960
  • Microphone

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (10)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (16)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (16)
  • Gelatin silver prints (15)
  • Snapshots (15)
  • Group portraits (10)
  • Portrait photographs (6)
  • Publicity photographs (1)
  • Reproductions (1)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (12)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (14)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • Pianists (14)
  • African American men (11)
  • African American women (10)
  • Double bass (10)
  • Piano (10)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Drum set (9)
  • Musical instruments (9)
  • Porches (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Sound studios (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Disc jockeys (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Sound recordings (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • (-) Microphone (16)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (10)
  • Brown, Corky (8)
  • Richards, Red (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Woods, Georgie (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (16)
  • (-) 1960 (16)

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