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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

Army band at an unidentified venue

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Army band performing at an unidentified venue. From left to right: Cal Gould playing trombone, Connie Newton playing trumpet, Ed Stafford playing...

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Band performing

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Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band (Dinky Morris, Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, unidentified, Curtis Peagler, Rickey Woodard, unidentified, and...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

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Bettye Miller on piano performing on stage with Milt Abel on double bass next to her.

Date Published
1971
1980
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 performing together

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Bettye Miller smiling at the camera while playing piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt shaker on the piano in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller smiling while playing piano and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass behind her. There's a salt...

Date Published
1951
1960
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 playing in a living room

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Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass performing in a living room. An unidentified African American man is playing drums behind them in the...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

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Bettye Miller seated at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown (unseen in photo) on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller in a trio

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Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass, and an unidentified white man on drums, performing. Miller is facing the camera and the drummer's face is...

Date Published
1951
1960
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 playing piano

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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 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 xylophone

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Bettye Miller playing a xylophone set up next to her piano. Milt Abel is playing double bass at the right.

Date Published
1967
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

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Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

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Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (100)
  • Jay McShann Collection (51)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (36)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (13)
  • Betty Crow Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Ed Dix Collection (3)
  • GLAMA: Linda Wilson Collection (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (211)

Genres

  • Group portraits (172)
  • Color photographs (152)
  • Black & white photographs (59)
  • Gelatin silver prints (59)
  • Portrait photographs (35)
  • Still life photographs (1)
  • (-) Snapshots (211)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (72)
  • 1991-2000 (39)
  • 2001-2010 (37)
  • 1971-1980 (20)
  • 1961-1970 (18)
  • 1951-1960 (17)
  • 1941-1950 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (180)
  • African American jazz musicians (179)
  • African American men (96)
  • Piano (91)
  • Pianists (88)
  • Double bass (76)
  • Double bassists (76)
  • Saxophonists (61)
  • Men, White (59)
  • Drum set (57)
  • Saxophone (55)
  • Microphone (51)
  • African American women (49)
  • Trombonists (48)
  • Jazz musicians, White (47)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (46)
  • Trombone (39)
  • Trumpet players (39)
  • Audiences (35)
  • Trumpet (32)
  • Hats (24)
  • Women, White (20)
  • Signs and signboards (19)
  • African American women musicians (17)
  • Women pianists (17)
  • African American women jazz singers (13)
  • Clarinetists (12)
  • Guitarists (12)
  • Clarinet (11)
  • Women jazz musicians (11)
  • Guitar (9)
  • Porches (9)
  • Bands (Music) (8)
  • Musicians (8)
  • Children, White (7)
  • Violinists (7)
  • Violin (6)
  • African American children (5)
  • Children--Hospital care (5)
  • Hospital patients (5)
  • Masters of ceremonies (5)
  • Berets (4)
  • Big bands (4)
  • Music rehearsals (4)
  • Mutes (Music) (4)
  • String ensembles (4)
  • Tambourine (4)
  • Wheelchairs (4)
  • African American girls (3)
  • Band directors (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Costume (3)
  • Entertainers (3)
  • Girls (3)
  • Hair ornaments (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Percussionists (3)
  • Sheet music (3)
  • Xylophone (3)
  • African American band directors (2)
  • Banners (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Elementary schools (2)
  • Eyeglasses (2)
  • Hospitals--Employees (2)
  • Lectures and lecturing (2)
  • Loading and unloading (2)
  • Photographs (2)
  • Physicians (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Restaurants--Decoration (2)
  • Salt shakers (2)
  • School children (2)
  • Sunglasses (2)
  • T-shirts (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • Trees (2)
  • Accordion (1)
  • Accordionists (1)
  • African American couples (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Beards (1)
  • Cellists (1)
  • Cello (1)
  • Chairs (1)
  • Chief executive officers (1)
  • Classrooms (1)
  • College students (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Country musicians (1)
  • Cowboys (1)
  • Dalmatian dog (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dining rooms (1)
  • Djembe (1)
  • Draperies (1)
  • Drum--Study and teaching (1)
  • Ethnic costume (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Flags (1)
  • Flowers (1)
  • Flute (1)
  • Forests and forestry (1)
  • Fund raising (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Hand (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Hugging (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Living rooms (1)
  • Mandolin (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Mugs (1)
  • Music students (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Plants, Potted (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Stage lighting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Stuffed animals (Toys) (1)
  • Suspenders (1)
  • Teachers (1)
  • Teenage musicians (1)
  • Waiters (1)
  • Waitresses (1)
  • Walkers (Orthopedic apparatus) (1)
  • (-) Musical instruments (211)

Subjects, Geographic

  • San Diego (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jeannie (57)
  • McShann, Jay (44)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (38)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (30)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (25)
  • Morris, Dinky (16)
  • Woodard, Rickey (16)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (14)
  • Peagler, Curtis (14)
  • Smith, Nolan (14)
  • Taylor, Louis (Saxophonist) (14)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (12)
  • Clayton, Jeff (11)
  • Brown, Corky (9)
  • Bohanon, George, 1937- (8)
  • Callender, Red (8)
  • Harmon, Brian (Musician) (8)
  • Stephens, John (Jazz musician) (8)
  • Boss, Bob (7)
  • Reid, Richard (Bassist) (6)
  • Young, Snooky (6)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (5)
  • Noone, Jimmie, 1938- (5)
  • Penland, Ralph (5)
  • Gregg, Joseph Boon, 1913-1995 (4)
  • Spaits, Gerald (4)
  • Hughes, Terry (Drummer) (3)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (3)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Gunther, Paul (2)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (2)
  • Johnson, Lew (2)
  • Johnson, Reggie (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Lucas, Clyde (2)
  • Owens, Charles, 1939- (2)
  • Smull, Ned (2)
  • Tucker, Rusty, 1925-2006 (2)
  • Wilkerson, Todd (2)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (1)
  • Armstrong, Matt (Musician) (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Bonano, Sharkey (1)
  • Bouchon, Lester (1)
  • Brown, Cheryl (Philanthropist) (1)
  • Brown, Walter, -1956 (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • De Marchi, Ray (1)
  • Dexter, Dave (1)
  • Eicher, Greg (1)
  • Galloway, Jim (1)
  • Gould, Bud (1)
  • Grover, Terry (1)
  • Haggart, Bob (1)
  • Hawkins, Marshall (1)
  • Hazel, Monk, 1903-1968 (1)
  • Herman, Woody, 1913-1987 (1)
  • Hinton, Milt (1)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • Lammond, Joe (1)
  • Martin, Arch, 1931-2009 (1)
  • Martin, Chink, 1886-1981 (1)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Page, Walter (1)
  • Pecora, Santo, 1902-1984 (1)
  • Ramey, Gene (1)
  • Riddick, Jeff (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Russell, Claudia (Master of ceremonies) (1)
  • Smith, Richard (Musician) (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Joyce (Singer) (1)
  • Venaas, Terje, 1947- (1)
  • Walder, Herman (1)
  • Wesley, Lucky (1)

Events

  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (36)
  • Harbor Island Jam Session (10)
  • Jazz City International Jazz Festival (1989 : Edmonton, Alta.) (3)
  • IAJRC Convention (1985 : Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (2)
  • Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference (24th : 2006 : San Diego, Calif.) (1)
  • Nice Festival (1976 : Nice, France) (1)
  • Oslo Jazz Festival (1992 : Oslo, Norway) (1)
  • Toronto Jazz Festival (1984 : Toronto, Ont.) (1)

Date Published

  • 2009-09-26 (36)
  • 1981 (32)
  • 1989-06 (32)
  • 1990 (22)
  • 2000 (21)
  • 1991 (18)
  • 1951 (16)
  • 1960 (16)
  • 1961 (11)
  • 1970 (11)
  • 1971 (11)
  • 1980 (11)
  • 1984 (11)
  • 1995-07-05 (8)
  • 1996-08-21 (5)
  • 1997-04-28 (4)
  • 1941 (3)
  • 1967-10-31 (3)
  • 1989 (3)
  • 1995 (3)
  • 1945-10-18 (2)
  • 1950 (2)
  • 1964-05-19 (2)
  • 1971-01 (2)
  • 1974-02-09 (2)
  • 1978-03-19 (2)
  • 1985-08-16 (2)
  • 1993-03 (2)
  • 1940 (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1964 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-05 (1)
  • 1973-01-01 (1)
  • 1973-12-31 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1979 (1)
  • 1989-07 (1)
  • 1992-08 (1)
  • 1996-12-01 (1)
  • 2006-11 (1)

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