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Ahmad Alaadeen, Terry Hughes, and Gerald Spaits performing

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Terry Hughes (drums), Gerald Spaits (bass), and Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone) performing during a concert in Palm Beach, Florida; Jay McShann may be...

Date Published
April-28-1997
Member of
Jay McShann 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

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

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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 on stage

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Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and leaning over toward Milt Abel playing double bass. An unidentified African American man is on drums behind...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing on stage

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and facing the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass and an unidentified African American man is...

Date Published
1971
1980
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

Bob Haggart playing bass

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Bob Haggart playing bass in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; a microphone is set up in front of him.

Date Published
July-1989
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Cheathams and band members

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Group portrait of musicians lined up together outside a building; Rickey Woodard, Nolan Smith, Ironman Harris, Dinky Morris, Curtis Peagler, Jeannie &...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Clora Bryant next to Curtis Peagler

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Clora Bryant standing next to and looking at Curtis Peagler who is wearing a red hat, sunglasses, and has his arms outspread in mid-clap; Red...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Close up of Jay McShann wearing glasses

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Close up of Jay McShann while he's wearing his glasses and playing piano; behind him bassist Brian Harmon is partially seen; unknown venue.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Curtis Peagler and others at the Blue Note

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Clora Bryant, Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Rickey Woodard (saxophone), Dinky Morris (saxophone) and an unidentified double bassist on stage at the Blue...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Dinky Morris and Jeannie Cheatham on stage

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Dinky Morris, in a red vest and matching hat, playing soprano saxophone on stage in front of a microphone; behind is an unidentified bassist and...

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Doc Cheatham playing trumpet

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"Doc" Cheatham on stage playing trumpet in front of a microphone and using a mute; behind him an unidentified drummer playing a blue set of drums and...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Double bassist on Harbor Island

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Unidentified, white male double bassist playing on stage; wearing grey pants and a white t-shirt he's facing to the right of the photo; on Harbor...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and unidentified bassist on stage

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Eddie Cleanhead Vinson seated and singing into a microphone with his saxophone in his lap; an unidentified white male bassist is behind him; also seen...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and unidentified bassist on stage

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Saxophonist Eddie Cleanhead Vinson on stage with his saxophone resting beside him with a partially seen, unidentified white male bassist behind him...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and unidentified bassist on stage

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Saxophonist Eddie Cleanhead Vinson and unidentified white male bassist performing on stage at an unidentified bar; a drum set and piano can be seen...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Group photo with Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham

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Group photo of a group of jazz musicians sitting for a formal portrait and including Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham; Jimmy is holding his trombone and...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Ironman Harris playing drums

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Ironman Harris playing drums and facing the left of the photo; next to him Red Callender is playing bass; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

Date Published
June-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jam session

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Jeannie Cheatham at the piano with Jimmy Cheatham, trombone, and other musicians on stage with them during a jam session.

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jay McShann acknowledging his bassist

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Jay McShann standing up from his piano with arm raised to acknowledge the unidentified bassist; unknown event or location.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and others on stage during a IAJRC concert

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Jay McShann playing piano on stage during an IAJRC conference concert in Kansas City; (Jay McShann, piano; Claude Williams, violin; Ben Kynard...

Date Published
August-16-1985
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and unidentified bassist playing on a river boat

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Jay McShann and unidentified white male bassist playing on an unidentified river boat; photo taken from McShann's side and the bassist is behind him...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

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Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (49)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (35)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (14)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (99)

Genres

  • Snapshots (93)
  • Group portraits (82)
  • Portrait photographs (17)
  • Publicity photographs (1)
  • (-) Color photographs (99)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (43)
  • 1991-2000 (23)
  • 1971-1980 (21)
  • 2001-2010 (7)
  • 1961-1970 (4)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (94)
  • Double bassists (94)
  • Jazz musicians (94)
  • African American men (66)
  • Piano (62)
  • Pianists (60)
  • Jazz musicians, White (50)
  • Men, White (50)
  • Musical instruments (42)
  • Drum set (38)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (30)
  • Microphone (24)
  • Saxophonists (24)
  • Saxophone (23)
  • Audiences (18)
  • African American women (17)
  • Trumpet players (17)
  • Trumpet (14)
  • Trombonists (11)
  • Trombone (9)
  • Guitarists (7)
  • Hats (7)
  • Guitar (6)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Signs and signboards (6)
  • Women pianists (5)
  • African American women jazz singers (4)
  • Long hair (4)
  • Women jazz musicians (4)
  • African American women musicians (3)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (3)
  • Plants, Potted (3)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (3)
  • Women, White (3)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Banners (2)
  • Blues musicians (2)
  • Buildings (2)
  • Clarinet (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Cymbals (2)
  • Electronic piano (2)
  • Television specials (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Applause (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Draperies (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Furniture (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Hair ornaments (1)
  • Headphones (1)
  • Living rooms (1)
  • Masters of ceremonies (1)
  • Mutes (Music) (1)
  • Pickup trucks (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Sound--Recording and reproducing--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound studios (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) Double bass (99)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (44)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (17)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (14)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (12)
  • Callender, Red (11)
  • Harmon, Brian (Musician) (8)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (7)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (7)
  • Reid, Richard (Bassist) (7)
  • Spaits, Gerald (7)
  • Hughes, Terry (Drummer) (6)
  • Gunther, Paul (5)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (4)
  • Morris, Dinky (4)
  • Peagler, Curtis (4)
  • Young, Snooky (4)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (3)
  • Hawkins, Marshall (3)
  • Smith, Nolan (3)
  • Vinson, Eddie (3)
  • Boss, Bob (2)
  • Eicher, Greg (2)
  • Haggart, Bob (2)
  • Hinton, Milt (2)
  • Johnson, Reggie (2)
  • Lucas, Clyde (2)
  • Robillard, Duke (2)
  • Wallace, Sippie (2)
  • Woodard, Rickey (2)
  • Adderley, Nat, 1931-2000 (1)
  • Cheatham, Doc (1)
  • Galloway, Jim (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Penland, Ralph (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Sims, Zoot (1)
  • Taylor, Louis (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thomas, Joe, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Thompson, Dan (Musician) (1)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (1)

Events

  • Harbor Island Jam Session (7)
  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (4)
  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (3)
  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (2)

Date Published

  • 1981 (26)
  • 1990 (20)
  • 1971 (8)
  • 1980 (8)
  • 1984 (7)
  • 1989-06 (7)
  • 1991 (7)
  • 1997-04-28 (7)
  • 2000 (7)
  • 1976 (6)
  • 1961 (4)
  • 1970 (4)
  • 1980-12 (4)
  • 2009-09-26 (4)
  • 1980-04 (3)
  • 1985-08-16 (3)
  • 1995-07-05 (3)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1989-07 (2)
  • 1993-03 (2)
  • 2004-03 (2)
  • 1965-09 (1)
  • 1982-06 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)
  • 1992 (1)
  • 1993 (1)
  • 1993-07-03 (1)
  • 1994 (1)
  • 2003-05-21 (1)

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