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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano with Milt Abel playing double bass behind her. Both are looking at the camera.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel on stage

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Milt Abel, bass, with Bettye Miller, vibraphone, performing on stage. Miller is standing and seen from the side and below the stage level.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel on stage

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View from below the stage of Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, bass, performing. Miller has her back to the camera. A drum set and vibraphone can...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, bass, performing together. There is a cymbal from a drum set in the foreground of the photo.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing

Image

Bettye Abel seated on at a piano and turned around to look at the camera over her shoulder. Milt Abel is standing with his bass beside her, also...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing together. Abel is positioned behind Miller who is looking to the right of the photo. Very...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Both looking at the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Taken at an angle.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Photo taken from...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together. Miller has a microphone set up near her face and she's looking into the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano and turning around to look over at the camera. An unidentified bassist (likely Milt Abel) is partially seen next to her...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller smiling at the camera

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Bettye Miller seated at the piano during a performance and turned to the camera smiling. Milt Abel can be seen on bass behind her, also looking at the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with Milt Abel

Image

Milt Abel, double bass, and Bettye Miller, piano, playing in front of an audience (primarily white men seen). The photo is taken from behind and to...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Rod Padilla

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Bettye Miller, piano, Milt Abel, double bass, and Rod Padilla, drums, performing in the lounge of the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader

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Bettye Miller, seated at a piano with Milt Abel holding his double bass. George Nader is leaning on the piano with Lois Roberts standing next to him...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

George Duvivier and his bass

Image

George Duvivier holding his bass and looking at the camera with pursed lips; wearing dark framed glasses and a suit and tie.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

George Duvivier and his bass

Image

George Duvivier, seated and looking to the left, wearing dark framed glasses with the neck of his bass visible next to him; he's wearing a suit and...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Mel Powell playing piano

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Mel Powell playing piano; facing to the right; double bass and a partial section of another musician behind him.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing bass in front of a microphone. Photo taken from the side with members of the audience shown (white men and women). The woman at the...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing bass with a microphone on a stand in front of him. The photo is taken from the behind an audience, of which two members' heads are...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing double bass with a microphone in front of him. There's a curtain behind him and he's facing to the right of the photo.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing double bass. There's a curtain behind him and he's facing to the right of the photo.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Slam Stewart playing bass

Image

Slam Stewart playing bass against a black background.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
  • Clear selected
  • 1961
  • Double bass

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (20)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Snapshots (22)
  • Black & white photographs (20)
  • Gelatin silver prints (20)
  • Group portraits (17)
  • Portrait photographs (7)
  • Color photographs (4)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (22)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (23)
  • Double bassists (23)
  • Jazz musicians (22)
  • African American men (18)
  • Pianists (17)
  • African American women (16)
  • Piano (16)
  • Musical instruments (7)
  • Men, White (6)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Living rooms (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Eyeglasses (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • (-) Double bass (24)

Subjects, People

  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (19)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (15)
  • Duvivier, George (2)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Powell, Mel (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Stewart, Slam (1)

Date Published

  • 1970 (24)
  • (-) 1961 (24)

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