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At Carnegie Hall

Image

Shot of Buck Clayton and ensemble, (likely Milt Hinton on bass and Jo Jones on drums), from behind while playing Carnegie Hall in New York City...

Date Published
April-09-1954
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party performance

Image

Audience member seated during Bettye Miller's birthday party performance.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Audience during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

A photograph of a seated Mexican American audience at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event in an auditorium. One African American woman and one...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Audience during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

A profile photograph of a mostly Mexican American seated audience at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event in an auditorium. Two African American...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Audience for the Katherine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication

Image
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View of the audience (African American and white men and women) for the Katherine B. Richardson Elementary School dedication. Second row includes John...

Date Published
May-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Audience stands to sing during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

An audience at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event of Mexican American women studying a sheet of music, a Mexican American man, and an African...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

audience visits during a MANA de Kansas City event

Image

An audience of Mexican American women and men visit in an auditorium at an unidentified MANA de Kansas City event. Most wear name tags. Estella...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Audience watches a formal event

Image

In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, unidentified African American men and one unidentified African American...

Date Published
September-01-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Audience watches a formal event

Image

In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, four unidentified African American men and one unidentified African...

Date Published
September-01-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Audience watching speaker

Image

View of the audience watching the speaker at the podium, an unidentified African American man, during a Children's Mercy Hospital Annual Meeting and...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Audience watching speaker

Image

View of the audience watching the speaker at the podium, an unidentified African American man, during a Children's Mercy Hospital Annual Meeting and...

Date Published
February-03-2004
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Balladiers performing at the Service Awards dinner

Image

Three young white men, The Balladiers, performing at the Service Awards dinner. One is playing the guitar while all sing. The audience (African...

Date Published
February-19-1964
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Bearded man in front of an audience

Image

Unidentified bearded African American man speaking or performing in front of an audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party. A suitcase is at his feet...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller greeting fans

Image

Bettye Miller greeting fans. She's speaking with a white man and an African American man holding a hat and possibly a performance program looks on.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing on stage

Image

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 piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano and turning around to look over at the camera. An unidentified bassist (likely Milt Abel) is partially seen next to her...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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 with Milt Abel

Image

Milt Abel, double bass, and Bettye Miller, piano, playing in front of an audience (primarily white men seen). The photo is taken from behind and to...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and unidentified drummer

Image

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

Bubba Jackson's black drawers

Image

Publicity photo of Bubba Jackson and Jimmy Cheatham performing at the Long Beach Jazz Festival; Cheatham is standing to the right while Jackson is...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Buck Clayton and Mezz Mezzrow in Paris

Image

Mezz Mezzrow and Buck Clayton performing in front of a crowd in Paris, France.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton playing with Eddie Condon's band

Image

Buck Clayton performing in a club with Eddie Condon's Band; seen are Eddie Condon, guitar, Leonard Gaskin, bassist, Herbie Hall, clarinet, likely...

Date Published
August-29-1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton solo during filming

Image

Publicity photo of Buck Clayton performing a trumpet solo during filming for The Benny Goodman Story; Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) is standing at...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

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Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (48)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (23)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (22)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (9)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)
  • MANA de Kansas City Collection (5)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (2)
  • Dolores Hobley Collection (1)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (1)
  • Richard W. Bolling Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (123)

Genres

  • Group portraits (113)
  • Snapshots (113)
  • Color photographs (86)
  • Black & white photographs (39)
  • Gelatin silver prints (39)
  • Portrait photographs (15)
  • Publicity photographs (4)
  • Cityscape photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (30)
  • 1971-1980 (26)
  • 1991-2000 (20)
  • 1961-1970 (17)
  • 2001-2010 (10)
  • 1941-1950 (6)
  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (86)
  • Jazz musicians (85)
  • Men, White (76)
  • Pianists (57)
  • Piano (54)
  • Women, White (42)
  • African American women (38)
  • Jazz musicians, White (33)
  • Double bassists (20)
  • Double bass (16)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (14)
  • Microphone (14)
  • Saxophonists (12)
  • Drum set (10)
  • Trumpet players (10)
  • Guitarists (9)
  • Musical instruments (9)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (8)
  • Physicians (8)
  • Saxophone (8)
  • Hospital administrators (7)
  • Actors (6)
  • Applause (6)
  • Children, White (6)
  • Hats (6)
  • Hospitals--Employees (6)
  • Banners (5)
  • Blues musicians (5)
  • Cake (5)
  • Clarinetists (5)
  • Crowds (5)
  • Dinners and dining (5)
  • Guitar (5)
  • Hispanic American women (5)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • Mexican American women (5)
  • River boats (5)
  • Trees (5)
  • Actresses (4)
  • Bands (Music) (4)
  • Girls (4)
  • Hispanic American men (4)
  • Lectures and lecturing (4)
  • Men (4)
  • Mexican Americans (4)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (4)
  • Trombonists (4)
  • Volunteer workers in hospitals (4)
  • African American children (3)
  • Boys (3)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Conversation (3)
  • Golfers (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Performance awards (3)
  • Professional athletes (3)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Singers (3)
  • Trumpet (3)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Civil rights workers (2)
  • Clergy (2)
  • Cotton (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Electronic piano (2)
  • Enslaved persons (2)
  • Fans (Machinery) (2)
  • Fans (Persons) (2)
  • Jazz festivals (2)
  • Laughter (2)
  • Luncheons (2)
  • Nurses (2)
  • Older women (2)
  • Physicians' spouses (2)
  • Trombone (2)
  • Wheelchairs (2)
  • Academic costume (1)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American musicians (1)
  • African American women musicians (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Chauffeurs (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Civil rights (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Elementary schools (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Gifts (1)
  • Golf carts (1)
  • Halloween costumes (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Hospital buildings (1)
  • Lists (1)
  • Men's underwear (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Motion picture cameras (1)
  • Musical groups (1)
  • Music fans (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Name tags (1)
  • Nuns (1)
  • Orators (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Physical therapists (1)
  • Police (1)
  • Politicians (1)
  • Presidents--U.S. states (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Radio talk show hosts (1)
  • Rivers (1)
  • Shovels (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Stage lighting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Suspenders (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • (-) African American men (125)
  • (-) Audiences (125)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (2)
  • Pennsylvania (2)
  • Washington (D.C.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (47)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (9)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (8)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Sutherland, Herman R. (5)
  • Watson, Maurice (Of Counsel) (5)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (4)
  • Smull, Ned (4)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (3)
  • Watson, Tom, 1949- (3)
  • Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 (2)
  • Briscoe, Charles, 1931- (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (2)
  • Galloway, Jim (2)
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (2)
  • Mejia, Bea Marie (2)
  • Muro, Barbara (Of Kansas City, Mo.) (2)
  • O'Donnell, Melva (2)
  • O'Donnell, Randall Leonard, 1950- (2)
  • Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001 (2)
  • Watson, Hilary (2)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Bolling, Richard, 1916-1991 (1)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973 (1)
  • Cutshall, Cutty (1)
  • Dreher, Richard (Doctor) (1)
  • Gaskin, Leonard (1)
  • Green, Urbie (1)
  • Gunther, Paul (1)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Hall, Herb, 1907-1996 (1)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (1)
  • Hendricks, Louise (1)
  • Hinton, Milt (1)
  • Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 (1)
  • Jackson, Bubba (1)
  • Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973 (1)
  • Johnson, Mark (Volunteer) (1)
  • Johnson, Reggie (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Kreamer, Marion (1)
  • Lil' Ed (1)
  • Lucas, Clyde (1)
  • Mack, Ted (1)
  • McCormack, John W., 1891-1980 (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Morales, Estella (1)
  • Morris, Dinky (1)
  • Myers, Sam, 1936-2006 (1)
  • Noone, Jimmie, 1938- (1)
  • Peagler, Curtis (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Santa Claus (Fictitious character) (1)
  • Schroeder, Gene (1)
  • Seals, Son (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Stockwell, John F. (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Thompson, Henry (Physical Therapist) (1)
  • Weaver, Margaret (1)
  • Wettling, George, 1907-1968 (1)
  • Woodard, Rickey (1)

Events

  • Harbor Island Jam Session (5)
  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (3)
  • Tony Williams Jazz Fest (2)
  • WDAF's Dixieland Jubilee (1949 : Los Angeles) (2)
  • Long Beach Jazz Festival (1)

Date Published

  • 1981 (18)
  • 1990 (15)
  • 1971 (13)
  • 1980 (13)
  • 1991 (12)
  • 2000 (12)
  • 1976 (11)
  • 1961 (10)
  • 1970 (10)
  • 1984 (5)
  • 1997-02-13 (5)
  • 2004-02-03 (5)
  • 1949 (4)
  • 1990-09 (3)
  • 2004-03 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1949-10-07 (2)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1964-02-19 (2)
  • 1968 (2)
  • 1978-05-01 (2)
  • 1983-01 (2)
  • 1989-06 (2)
  • 1993-03 (2)
  • 2001-09-01 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1954-04-09 (1)
  • 1959-08-29 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1962-10-31 (1)
  • 1964-05-19 (1)
  • 1964-07-06 (1)
  • 1965-12-19 (1)
  • 1966 (1)
  • 1966-12-01 (1)
  • 1966-12-31 (1)
  • 1982-06 (1)
  • 1982-06-30 (1)
  • 1983-03-17 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)
  • 1987-07 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1988-05 (1)
  • 1989-01-01 (1)
  • 1989-12-31 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 2003-05-21 (1)
  • 2004-05-15 (1)

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