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Billy Childs

Image

Pianist Billy Childs, in a split photograph, sits at a piano with a vase of tulips on top as he wears a dark fedora and a dark suit. Printed in the...

Date Published
1988
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Charles Owens at a recording session

Image

Charles Owens seated behind a music stand in a white shirt with a blue strap for his saxophone during a recording session; behind on the wall various...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams smiles as he sits in a dressing room

Image

Claude "Fiddler" Williams sits in a dressing room or green room wearing a tuxedo and smiling as he plays his fiddle. A lighted make-up table is on the...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

George Howard

Image

Jazz saxophonist George Howard smiles at the camera in a close-up, head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "George Howard...

Date Published
1993
1998
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Hank Crawford smiling

Image

Hank Crawford seated at a recording session and looking up at the camera and smiling; beside him an unidentified person is partially seen standing...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jazz musicians at the Crown Center

Image

Jazz musicians performing at the Crown Center on Grand Street in Kansas City, Missouri. From left to right: Julie Turner singing into a microphone in...

Date Published
1992
1993
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Jeannie Cheatham with headphones at the piano

Image

Jeannie Cheatham playing piano while wearing a set of headphones with a microphone in front of her during a recording session; facing the right of the...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Nolan Smith playing trumpet

Image

Nolan Smith playing trumpet for a recording session; behind him several other pairs of headphones and various wires are hung on a wall.

Date Published
1993
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Nolan Smith with headphones

Image

Nolan Smith with headphones on at a recording session; behind him several other pairs of headphones and various wires are hung on a wall; the arm of...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Red Callender playing double bass

Image

Red Callender seated and playing double bass while reading sheet music on a stand in front of him during a recording session; he's wearing a set of...

Date Published
1993
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Sun Ra

Image

Jazz pianist Sun Ra looks directly at the camera and sits with this fingers interlaced on his lap as he wears a shiny robe, a chain mail cap with a...

Date Published
1985
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Sun Ra

Image

Jazz pianist Sun Ra wears chain mail head cover with a cap over that, a large necklace and a robe in a close-up, head-shot photograph. There is a...

Date Published
1985
1993
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection
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  • 1993
  • African American jazz musicians

Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (6)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (4)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (12)

Genres

  • Portrait photographs (12)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Snapshots (7)
  • Publicity photographs (5)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Group portraits (1)

Time Periods

  • 1991-2000 (11)
  • 1981-1990 (3)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (12)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (6)
  • Sound studios (6)
  • African American men (5)
  • Headphones (4)
  • Saxophonists (4)
  • Pianists (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Double bassists (2)
  • African American women musicians (1)
  • Double bass (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Microphone (1)
  • Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) (1)
  • Piano (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (12)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Smith, Nolan (2)
  • Sun Ra (2)
  • Bell, Herman (Musician) (1)
  • Branstetter, Bob (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (1)
  • Childs, Billy (1)
  • Crawford, Hank, 1934-2009 (1)
  • Howard, George, 1956-1998 (1)
  • Jones, Carmell (1)
  • Owens, Charles, 1939- (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Turner, Julie (Singer) (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Date Published

  • 1985 (2)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1998 (1)
  • (-) 1993 (12)

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