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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 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 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

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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, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

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Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Wallace Jones, and guitarist

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on stage with Milt Abel on double bass, Wallace Jones on drums, and an unidentified white man seated and playing guitar...

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

Buddy Collette and Calvin Jackson

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Buddy Collette playing saxophone with Calvin Jackson seen beside him at the Cheathams' Jam Session; Collette is facing the left of the photo.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Buddy Tate and unidentified man

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Buddy Tate (right) and an unidentified African American man (left) in Orange, California; the unidentified man is looking over the right of the photo...

Date Published
1979
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Clarinetist with children

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White clarinet player leaning down on his knees, playing, while a young white girl touches the clarinet. She has a bandage over one of her eyes, and...

Date Published
January-01-1973
December-31-1973
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Dinky Morris with Jimmy Cheatham and others

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Dinky Morris (saxophone) playing with two unidentified trombonists and a scarcely seen drummer in front of a fireplace at...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Group photo of the Art Smith Kansas City Jazz Band

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Reprint of a newspaper or magazine group photo of the Art Smith Kansas City Jazz Band (L to R): Ben Kynard, Charles "Crook" Goodwin, Art Smith, "Sarge...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and Claude Williams at the Mutual Musicians Foundation

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Claude Williams, Jay McShann having a conversation at a small table in the Mutual Musicians Foundation building; Kansas City, Missouri; a carafe of...

Date Published
1971
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and others performing while people dance

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Jay McShann and his orchestra (African American and white men) performing at an unidentified social event or dance; various couples (white)can be seen...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and Paul Gunther on stage

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Jay McShann playing piano with a microphone in front of him with drummer Paul Gunther behind him; and unidentified third man can be partially seen...

Date Published
January-1971
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann on stage with Paul Gunther

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Jay McShann on stage with drummer Paul Gunther; McShann's piano not seen; unidentified event.

Date Published
January-1971
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann performing on stage with Claude Williams and Eddie Davis

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Jay McShann (piano), Claude Williams (violin), and Eddie Davis (saxophone) performing together on stage at an unidentified outdoor event; large trees...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano in Nice, France

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Jay McShann playing piano on stage at the Nice Festival with an unidentified African American male trombonist next to him; Nice, France.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing piano with an unidentified combo

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Jay McShann playing piano with an unidentified jazz combo; photo taken from a point behind the audience; unidentified venue and event.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Lew Johnson, Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham with others

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Lew Johnson speaking into a microphone and gesturing toward Jimmy Cheatham who is holding his trombone; unidentified white saxophonist is behind Jimmy...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Lew Johnson, Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham with others

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Lew Johnson speaking into a microphone and gesturing toward Jimmy Cheatham who is holding his trombone; unidentified white saxophonist is behind Jimmy...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Milt Abel and his double bass

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Milt Abel playing double bass and wearing a bow tie and t-shirt for the event that reads "Women's Jazz Festival". Held in Memorial Hall, Kansas City...

Date Published
March-19-1978
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Milt Abel and Marian McPartland

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Milt Abel posing for a photo with Marian McPartland. Both are smiling widely an Abel is standing with his double bass in front of him. Taken during...

Date Published
March-19-1978
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Nat Adderley, Jimmy Cheatham, Marshall Hawkins and Jeannie Cheatham performing

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Nat Adderley, Jimmy Cheatham, Marshall Hawkins, and Jeannie Cheatham with an unidentified musician behind them at a Jam Session; Jeannie is seated at...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Portrait of David "Fathead" Newman with his saxophone

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David "Fathead" Newman seated holding a glass of water and his saxophone; possibly between sessions; smiling and looking over to the right of the...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Singer and pianist at the awards ceremony

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Joyce Taylor singing into a microphone and accompanied by pianist Terry Grover at the hospital Staff Awards Ceremony. Other instruments, including a...

Date Published
February-09-1974
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (10)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (8)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (5)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (3)

Types

  • photographs (26)

Genres

  • Group portraits (25)
  • Snapshots (20)
  • Black & white photographs (16)
  • Gelatin silver prints (16)
  • Color photographs (10)
  • Promotional photographs (2)
  • Portrait photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1971-1980 (26)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (22)
  • African American men (21)
  • Jazz musicians (21)
  • Pianists (16)
  • Piano (16)
  • Double bass (10)
  • Double bassists (10)
  • African American women (9)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (8)
  • Drum set (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Saxophone (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Jazz musicians, White (6)
  • Microphone (6)
  • Women, White (6)
  • Trombonists (5)
  • Trombone (4)
  • African American women jazz singers (3)
  • Audiences (3)
  • Trumpet (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • Women jazz musicians (3)
  • Women pianists (3)
  • Children, White (2)
  • Dinners and dining (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Hospitals--Employees (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • African American children (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Clarinetists (1)
  • Conversation (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dining rooms (1)
  • Entertainers (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Fireplaces (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Living rooms (1)
  • Musicians (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • T-shirts (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Waiters (1)
  • Walkers (Orthopedic apparatus) (1)
  • (-) Musical instruments (26)

Subjects, People

  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (8)
  • McShann, Jay (7)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (6)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (4)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (3)
  • Gunther, Paul (2)
  • Johnson, Lew (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (2)
  • Adderley, Nat, 1931-2000 (1)
  • Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010 (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Dye, Coots, 1912-1998 (1)
  • Goodwin, Charles (Vocalist) (1)
  • Grover, Terry (1)
  • Hawkins, Marshall (1)
  • Jackson, Calvin (1)
  • Kynard, Ben, 1920-2012 (1)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Meyers, Richard (Guitarist) (1)
  • Morris, Dinky (1)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (1)
  • Smith, Art (Arthur T.), 1918-2011 (1)
  • Tate, Buddy (1)
  • Taylor, Joyce (Singer) (1)
  • Washington, Booker T., 1909-1992 (1)

Events

  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (2)
  • Cheatham Jam Session (1)
  • Nice Festival (1976 : Nice, France) (1)

Date Published

  • 1971 (17)
  • 1980 (16)
  • 1971-01 (2)
  • 1974-02-09 (2)
  • 1978-03-19 (2)
  • 1973-01-01 (1)
  • 1973-12-31 (1)
  • 1976 (1)
  • 1979 (1)

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