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Ahmad Alaadeen, Carmell Jones, and LaVerne Barker performing as part of the City Light Orchestra

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Ahmad Alaadeen performing with Carmell Jones (trumpet) and LaVerne Barker (bass) of the City Light Orchestra at the City Light Restaurant and Bar...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen, David Basse, and Bernard "Step Buddy" Anderson (trumpet) enjoy performing

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), looks straight at the photographer with a surprised face. David Basse (vocal), standing and singing into a microphone...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Big Mama Thornton seated on stage

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Big Mama Thornton seated on stage during the KPBS Special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; she's...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Buck Clayton, Joe Newman, and Earle Warren having a drink

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Buck Clayton, Joe Newman, and Earle Warren, all wearing hats, seated at a bar's outdoor table having drinks.

Date Published
1983
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buddy Tate and Mel Wanzo

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Buddy Tate with Mel Wanzo in Nice, France.

Date Published
1983
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

City Light Orchestra enjoying the park and the view

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Publicity photograph of the City Light Orchestra: Tim Whitmer, LaVerne Barker, David Basse, wearing a fedora, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Jano Mossman...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing at City Light Restaurant and Bar

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A postcard of The City Light Orchestra performing: Tim Whitmer (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), LaVerne Barker (bass), David Basse (drums). The...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing at City Light Restaurant and Bar

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Carmell Jones (trumpet, LaVerne Barker (bass), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), stand on stage at City Light Restaurant and Bar, Kansas City, MO and...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing outside

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City Light Orchestra: David Basse (drums), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), unidentified bass player, unidentified (saxophone), unidentified (trumpet)...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Drawing of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Publicity reproduction of a painting featuring portraits of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and "Big Mama" Thornton arranged against a background of...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Evening in Nice

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Buck Clayton speaking with an unidentified white woman at night near a sign at a concert in Nice, France.

Date Published
1983
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Jay McShann in a group photograph in Sarasota, Florida

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Group shot taken during the Sarasota Jazz Festival: Buddy Tate (extreme left), Milt Hinton (seventh from left), Jay McShann (third from front right)...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann on a park bench in Geneva

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Jay McShann seated on outdoor bench in Geneva; an unidentified African American man is leaning over to speak with him; other people can be partially...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann with family

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Jay McShann (left) posing for a photo with his cousin Marrele Overstreet (right) with Marrele's wife Dorothy (center); Detroit, Michigan.

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann with Jackie Williams and Jimmy McGriff

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The Jay McShann Trio: Jay McShann flanked by Jimmy McGriff and Jackie Williams; seated in a hotel room during a jazz festival in Baltimore, Maryland.

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jeannie Cheatham arm in arm with Sippie Wallace and Big Mama Thornton

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Jeannie Wallace (right), standing arm in arm on stage with "Big Mama" Thornton (center), and Sippie Wallace (left); Thornton and Wallace both are...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham with Sippie Wallace

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Jeannie Cheatham seated at a piano on stage while looking over at Sippie Wallace in a hat standing in front of a microphone and looking to the right...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham with Sippie Wallace

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Jeannie Cheatham standing next to a piano on stage while looking over at Sippie Wallace in a hat standing and singing in front of a microphone; part...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Sippie Wallace on stage with Big Mama Thornton and Jeannie Cheatham with Jimmy Cheatham and his trombone standing behind them; Big Mama Thornton is...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Sippie Wallace on stage with Big Mama Thornton and Jeannie Cheatham with Jimmy Cheatham and his trombone standing behind them and an unidentified...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Publicity photo for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" (filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach) featuring a performance shot of...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Otis Rush - Mighty Flyers

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A split photograph of the band Mighty Flyers on the left and Otis Rush on the right. The Mighty Flyers, a blues band comprised of one white woman...

Date Published
1981
1983
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Outdoor performance in Nice

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Buddy Tate, Jay McShann, and Francis Williams are performing on stage with Buck Clayton and a group of unidentified musicians on an outdoor stage in...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Playing on stage in Nice, France

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Buddy Tate, Francis Williams, Buck Clayton and one other performing on stage in Nice, France.

Date Published
1983
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

S.D.I.

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S.D.I. (Strategic Dance Initiative), (formerly the Blue Riddim Band), a reggae band from Kansas City, Missouri comprised of five white men, all...

Date Published
1982
1983
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

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Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (8)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (6)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (6)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (4)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)

Types

  • photographs (28)

Genres

  • Color photographs (15)
  • Snapshots (12)
  • Black & white photographs (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (10)
  • Publicity photographs (8)
  • Photographic postcards (2)
  • Reproductions (2)
  • Negatives (1)
  • Paintings (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • (-) Group portraits (28)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (22)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (21)
  • African American jazz musicians (20)
  • Pianists (11)
  • Men, White (10)
  • African American men (9)
  • Jazz singers (9)
  • African American women (7)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Bands (Music) (6)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Television specials (6)
  • Trumpet players (6)
  • Double bassists (5)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (5)
  • Bass guitarists (4)
  • Drum set (4)
  • Guitarists (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Piano (3)
  • Trombone (3)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Double bass (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Reggae musicians (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Women jazz musicians (2)
  • Women pianists (2)
  • Americana (Music) (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Benches (1)
  • Blues musicians (1)
  • Brass instrument players (1)
  • Cousins (1)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Funk musicians (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Outdoor concert facilities (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Parks (1)
  • Ska (Music) (1)
  • Trees (1)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (6)
  • Nice (France) (3)
  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jeannie (7)
  • Wallace, Sippie (7)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (6)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (6)
  • Basse, David (5)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (5)
  • McShann, Jay (5)
  • Barker, LaVerne (4)
  • Tate, Buddy (4)
  • Whitmer, Tim (4)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Jones, Carmell (2)
  • Williams, Franc, 1910-1983 (2)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (1)
  • Broussard, Rick (1)
  • Edmonson, Eddie (1)
  • Hinton, Milt (1)
  • Kelly, Pat (Drummer) (1)
  • Lobligeois, Roland (1)
  • McGriff, Jimmy (1)
  • Mossman, Jano (1)
  • Newman, Joe (1)
  • Overstreet, Dorothy (1)
  • Overstreet, Marrele (1)
  • Wanzo, Mel (1)
  • Warren, Earle (1)
  • Williams, Jackie, 1933- (1)

Events

  • Sarasota Jazz Festival (4th : 1983 : Sarasota, Fla.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1986 (6)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1982 (1)
  • (-) 1983 (28)

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