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Bettye Miller and Ketty Lester

Image

Bettye Miller standing with Ketty Lester outside on a patio. Both have jackets on and are smiling at something to the right of the photo. Director...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel 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

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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

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

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 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 in front of a car

Image

Snapshot of Bettye Miller standing in front of a car parked in the lot in front of a large, unidentified, building. She's wearing plaid pants, a...

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

Bettye Miller playing organ in a living room

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano in a living room. The top of the piano includes candlesticks and a Jayhawk figurine. She's facing the camera and smiling.

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 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 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

Image

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 calla lilies

Image

Bettye Miller standing next to an arrangement of calla lilies. Behind her are two large oxygen tanks and a cylinder with the words "Super Charged" on...

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

Image

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

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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

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  • 1970
  • Pianists

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (31)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (11)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (9)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (58)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (50)
  • Gelatin silver prints (48)
  • Snapshots (43)
  • Group portraits (31)
  • Portrait photographs (22)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Caricatures (1)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (45)
  • 1941-1950 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (49)
  • African American jazz musicians (47)
  • African American men (32)
  • African American women (30)
  • Piano (26)
  • Double bassists (18)
  • Double bass (17)
  • Men, White (17)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Musical instruments (8)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Living rooms (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Composers (2)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Beer (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Calla lilies (1)
  • Caricatures and cartoons (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Fans (Persons) (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hand (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Jayhawk (1)
  • Jazz audiences (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Organ (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Reflection (Optics) (1)
  • Rubble (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound engineers (1)
  • Sound studios (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Teenage boys (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) Pianists (58)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (25)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (17)
  • McShann, Jay (6)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (5)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (2)
  • Hamza, Luqman (2)
  • Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001 (2)
  • Tate, Norene (2)
  • Thompson, Sir Charles, 1918- (2)
  • Tyner, McCoy (2)
  • Bolling, Claude (1)
  • Crawford, Johnny, 1946-2021 (1)
  • Drew, Kenny (1)
  • Freeman, Bud, 1906-1991 (1)
  • Garson, Mike (1)
  • Kuhn, Steve (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Lester, Ketty (1)
  • Lewis, Jerry Lee (1)
  • Lewis, Ramsey (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Powell, Mel (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Rowles, Jimmie (1)
  • Thuston-Brown, Cora Pearl, 1927-2011 (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • Wilson, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (49)
  • 1965 (9)
  • (-) 1970 (58)

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