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Band performing

Image

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

Cheatham's Jazz Showcase performing

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"Cheatham's Jazz Showcase" performance showing vocalist Gene Lee in a white jacket in front of a microphone while the rest of the band is behind him...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheatham's Jazz Showcase performing

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"Cheatham's Jazz Showcase" performance showing vocalist Gene Lee in a white jacket in front of a microphone while the rest of the band is behind him...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Claudia Russell at the microphone

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Claudia Russell, emcee, speaking in front of a microphone at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at the Museum of Making Music's 7th...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Empty stage

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Stage Set Up at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at the Museum of Making Music's 7th Annual Gala; drum set and other instruments...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham and others on stage

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Partial view of Jeannie Cheatham playing piano at the right of the photo, with a partial view of an unidentified white male double bassist and drummer...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham playing piano

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Jeannie Cheatham playing piano on stage, partially obscured, with the hands of an unidentified white male double bassist seen on the left and Jimmy...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham playing piano outside

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Jeannie Cheatham playing piano and singing into a microphone at an outdoor venue (likely the campus of UC San Diego); Red Callender (double bass) and...

Date Published
June-1986
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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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

Jeannie Cheatham's friend Cheryl Brown

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Cheryl Brown, longtime friend of Jeannie Cheatham, standing on stage with part of a drum set visible behind her as well as a sign reading "Jeannie...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Mary Lou Williams playing piano

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View from the side of Mary Lou Williams playing piano (facing the right) with a chorus of Women singers, including Jeannie Cheatham, behind her; also...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

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Jeannie Cheatham (piano), Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Rickey Woodard (clarinet), Dinky Morris...

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

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

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Jeannie Cheatham playing piano, Dinky Morris playing saxophone, Rickey Woodard playing clarinet, unidentified saxophonist, and Ironman Harris on drums...

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

Ralph Penland

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Ralph Penland playing drums on stage at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at the Museum of Making Music's 7th Annual Gala; photo...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Ralph Penland on drums

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Ralph Penland playing drums and partially hidden behind his drum set; at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at the Museum of Making...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Ralph Penland, George Bohanon, and Jeff Clayton

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Ralph Penland playing drums with George Bohanon and Jeff Clayton standing beyond him on stage at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Richard Reid and Ralph Penland

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Richard Reid playing double bass and Ralph Penland at the drums just beyond him on stage at "An Evening of Note", honoring Jeannie Cheatham, held at...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Sweet Baby Blues Band

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Sweet Baby Blues Band members performing (Ralph Penland, drums ; Nolan Smith, trumpet ; George Bohanon, trombone ; Jeff Clayton and Louis Taylor...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection
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Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (20)

Types

  • photographs (20)

Genres

  • Color photographs (16)
  • Group portraits (15)
  • Snapshots (14)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Portrait photographs (4)
  • Promotional photographs (2)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (9)
  • 2001-2010 (8)
  • 1951-1960 (2)
  • 1971-1980 (1)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (17)
  • Jazz musicians (14)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (13)
  • Musical instruments (13)
  • Piano (9)
  • Double bass (8)
  • Double bassists (8)
  • Microphone (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Trombonists (7)
  • African American women (6)
  • Jazz singers (6)
  • Pianists (6)
  • Saxophone (6)
  • Women pianists (6)
  • Trombone (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Signs and signboards (4)
  • African American men (3)
  • African American women musicians (3)
  • Television specials (3)
  • African American band directors (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Clarinet (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Hats (2)
  • Trumpet (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Masters of ceremonies (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Women jazz musicians (1)
  • (-) Drum set (20)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (3)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jimmy (5)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (5)
  • Penland, Ralph (5)
  • Morris, Dinky (3)
  • Wallace, Sippie (3)
  • Woodard, Rickey (3)
  • Bohanon, George, 1937- (2)
  • Clayton, Jeff (2)
  • Copeland, Calvin (Cubby) (2)
  • Crump, Bob (2)
  • Evans, Jerry (Musician) (2)
  • Lee, Gene (2)
  • Legge, Jimmy (2)
  • Peagler, Curtis (2)
  • Riding, Albert (Eggie) (2)
  • Shareef, Museyf (2)
  • Shepard, Elvin (2)
  • Brown, Cheryl (Philanthropist) (1)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Reid, Richard (Bassist) (1)
  • Russell, Claudia (Master of ceremonies) (1)
  • Smith, Nolan (1)
  • Taylor, Louis (Saxophonist) (1)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (1)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (1)
  • (-) Cheatham, Jeannie (20)

Events

  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (8)
  • Harbor Island Jam Session (2)

Date Published

  • 2009-09-26 (8)
  • 1983 (3)
  • 1989-06 (3)
  • 1959 (2)
  • 1981 (2)
  • 1984 (2)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)

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