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Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

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Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. Two unidentified men, one standing, are behind her watching as she plays.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

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Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. A cymbal from a drum set is seen at her left and a group of people are seen behind her.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

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Bettye Miller singing while playing the piano during her birthday party. An unidentified man is seated behind her.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and unidentified drummer

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Bettye Miller (piano), Milt Abel (double bass), and an unidentified drummer perform for a small audience during Miller's birthday party.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Jay McShann playing piano in Nice, France

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Jay McShann playing piano on stage at the Nice Festival with an unidentified African American male trombonist next to him; Nice, France.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jeannie Cheatham singing at the piano

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Publicity photo of Jeannie Cheatham performing at the Park Motor Inn, Madison Wisconsin seated at a piano and singing into a microphone mounted beside...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Mary Lou Williams playing piano

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View from the side of Mary Lou Williams playing piano (facing the right) with a chorus of Women singers, including Jeannie Cheatham, behind her; also...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Max Morath

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Max Morath turning to look forward while playing a piano and smiling. Morath is wearing a striped suit and patterned tie.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

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Unidentified band performing in front of an audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party. All are white men and include a pianist, double bassist, and a...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection
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Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (5)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (9)

Genres

  • Group portraits (7)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (6)
  • Black & white photographs (3)
  • Gelatin silver prints (3)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Publicity photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1971-1980 (9)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (7)
  • Jazz musicians (7)
  • Pianists (7)
  • African American men (5)
  • African American women (5)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Drum set (3)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Men, White (2)
  • Women jazz musicians (2)
  • Women pianists (2)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Jazz singers (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Women, White (1)
  • (-) Piano (9)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (4)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Morath, Max (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)

Events

  • Nice Festival (1976 : Nice, France) (1)

Date Published

  • (-) 1976 (9)

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