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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the...

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

Bettye Miller playing piano

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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 playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the...

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

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Close up of Bettye Miller's hands

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Close up of Bettye Miller's hands as she plays piano.

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

Photo of Jay McShann at the piano

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Photo of Jay McShann seated at the piano with ornate patterned wallpaper behind him; wearing a dark suit and polka-dot tie; hands on the keys and...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Photo of Jay McShann playing the piano

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Photo of Jay McShann playing the piano with a microphone in front of him, keyboard clearly visible; turned to the right of the photo with eyes closed...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Photo of Jay McShann playing the piano

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Photo of Jay McShann playing the piano with a microphone in front of him; turned to the right of the photo and head tilted slightly back with eyes...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Promotional photo of unidentified duo

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Promotional photo of two white men seated at a piano with both their hands on the keyboard and looking over to the side. One is named Harold.

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

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Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (21)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (28)

Genres

  • Snapshots (25)
  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (23)
  • Group portraits (23)
  • Color photographs (4)
  • Portrait photographs (3)
  • Caricatures (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (28)

Subjects

  • Pianists (26)
  • Jazz musicians (25)
  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • African American women (21)
  • African American men (19)
  • Double bass (16)
  • Double bassists (16)
  • Men, White (9)
  • Musical instruments (8)
  • Women, White (7)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Living rooms (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Christmas (3)
  • Christmas decorations (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Hospital beds (2)
  • Hospital patients (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Beer (1)
  • Caricatures and cartoons (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Hand (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Hospital administrators (1)
  • Jazz musicians, White (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • (-) Piano (28)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (18)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (15)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)
  • Wilson, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (28)
  • (-) 1970 (28)

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