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Benny Carter playing saxophone on stage

Image

Benny Carter on stage and playing saxophone on stage next to a microphone. Carter is facing forward, looking to the side, and is wearing a jacket and...

Date Published
1965
1970
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bernie Hamilton

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Publicity photo of Bernie Hamilton with a van dyke and wearing an ascot; facing the camera with a serious look.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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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

Image

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

Image

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 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 greeting fans

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Bettye Miller greeting fans. She's speaking with a white man and an African American man holding a hat and possibly a performance program looks on.

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 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 with two men

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Bettye Miller sitting between two unidentified men on a curved bench. Plants and flowers are behind them. All looking at the camera.

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and two other men

Image

Bettye Abel standing with Milt Abel (left) and an unidentified African American man (right) and an unidentified white man seated in front of them. All...

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and a third man

Image

Bettye Miller seated with Milt Abel at a table. An unidentified man is crouched down between them and looking directly at the camera. Other people can...

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Rod Padilla

Image

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

Buck Clayton and a CBS correspondent

Image

Buck Clayton speaking with an unidentified white male CBS reporter.

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

Buck Clayton and a CBS correspondent

Image

Buck Clayton speaking with an unidentified white male CBS reporter.

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

Buck Clayton and bassist

Image

Buck Clayton playing trumpet near unidentified man in glasses playing bass.

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

Buck Clayton and Humphrey Lyttelton

Image

Humphrey Lyttelton standing in front of a building with Buck Clayton in Paris, France.

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

Buck Clayton and Jack Medlock

Image

Buck Clayton and Jack Medlock standing beside the porch of a house.

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

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  • African American men

Member of

  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (48)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (30)
  • Jay McShann Collection (15)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (10)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (4)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (3)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (121)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (100)
  • Gelatin silver prints (100)
  • Group portraits (87)
  • Snapshots (87)
  • Portrait photographs (29)
  • Color photographs (19)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Cityscape photographs (2)
  • Negatives (2)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Caricatures (1)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (67)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 1981-1990 (3)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (98)
  • Jazz musicians (98)
  • Men, White (57)
  • Jazz musicians, White (33)
  • Pianists (32)
  • Trumpet players (32)
  • African American women (28)
  • Double bassists (26)
  • Piano (19)
  • Double bass (18)
  • Saxophonists (15)
  • Women, White (15)
  • Audiences (10)
  • Living rooms (10)
  • Trombonists (10)
  • Musical instruments (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (5)
  • Microphone (5)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (5)
  • Sound studios (5)
  • Boys (4)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Hats (4)
  • Physicians (4)
  • Soldiers (4)
  • Sound engineers (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Cigarettes (3)
  • Clarinetists (3)
  • Dogs (3)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (3)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Hospitals--Employees (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Music fans (3)
  • Music journalists (3)
  • Performance awards (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Dog owners (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Great Dane (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Living room furniture (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Parties (2)
  • Singers (2)
  • Smoking (2)
  • Sofas (2)
  • Trumpet (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • African American actors (1)
  • African American motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • African American television personalities (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Balconies (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Beards (1)
  • Beer (1)
  • Bicycles (1)
  • Bodies of water (1)
  • Bowler hats (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Caricatures and cartoons (1)
  • Cathedrals (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Cities and towns (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Couples (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dental hygienists (1)
  • Dental instruments and apparatus (1)
  • Dentist and patient (1)
  • Dentists (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Drinking cups (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Emergency management--Planning (1)
  • Emergency medical services--Planning (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Fans (Persons) (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Gargoyles (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Golf carts (1)
  • Golfers (1)
  • Granddaughters (1)
  • Grandfathers (1)
  • Hearths (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Infants (1)
  • Jazz audiences (1)
  • Journalists (1)
  • Labor unions--Officials and employees (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Litters (1)
  • Male singers (1)
  • Marijuana (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Men's clothing (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Music teachers (1)
  • Nobility (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Painting, Modern (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Pedodontics (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Publishers and publishing (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Rubble (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Soul musicians (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Television (1)
  • Tobacco pipes (1)
  • Tour Eiffel (Paris, France) (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Waiting rooms (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Windows (1)
  • (-) African American men (121)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Paris (France) (4)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (2)
  • Chelsea (London, England) (1)
  • Cincinnati (Ohio) (1)
  • Gravenhurst (Ont.) (1)
  • Saigon (Vietnam) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (43)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (21)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (17)
  • McShann, Jay (15)
  • Freeman, Bud, 1906-1991 (5)
  • Tate, Buddy (4)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (4)
  • Warren, Earle (4)
  • Hamza, Luqman (3)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (3)
  • Renaud, M. (3)
  • Sims, Zoot (3)
  • Smull, Ned (3)
  • Terry, Clark (3)
  • Wells, Dicky, 1907-1985 (3)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Christinat (2)
  • Dickenson, Vic (2)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (2)
  • Haggart, Bob (2)
  • Holland, Peanuts (2)
  • Johnson, Budd (2)
  • Lyttelton, Humphrey, 1921-2008 (2)
  • Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001 (2)
  • Traill, Sinclair (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Winding, Kai (2)
  • Armstrong, Lil Hardin, 1898-1971 (1)
  • Ballard, Hank (1)
  • Bohannon, Lee (1)
  • Brown, Sonny (1)
  • Carter, Benny (1)
  • Crawford, Jimmy (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Cutshall, Cutty (1)
  • Daniels, Billy, 1915-1988 (1)
  • Drybread, Bill (Trombonist) (1)
  • Hamilton, Bernie (1)
  • Hinton, Milt (1)
  • Jones, Wayne (Drummer) (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Lascelles, Gerald, 1924-1998 (1)
  • Masse, Jean-Marie (1)
  • Medlock, Jack (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Parrott, Dawn Rachael (1)
  • Ramey, Gene (1)
  • Renaud, J. D. (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Rushing, Jimmy (1)
  • Saury, Maxim (1)
  • Smith, Richard J., -1974 (1)
  • Tate, Norene (1)
  • Thompson, Henry (Physical Therapist) (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Tumino, John B., 1911-2001 (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Wilson, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (113)
  • 1965 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1981 (1)
  • (-) 1970 (121)

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