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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 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 Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, bass, performing together. There is a cymbal from a drum set in the foreground of the photo.

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

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Bettye Miller on piano, Milt Abel on bass performing in a living room.

Date Published
April-11-1965
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

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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 performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Both looking at the...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Taken at an angle.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel. Photo taken from...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Able performing together in what looks like a private home as living room curtains can be seen behind Abel.

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 piano

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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 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 smiling at the camera

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Bettye Miller seated at the piano during a performance and turned to the camera smiling. Milt Abel can be seen on bass behind her, also looking at the...

Date Published
1961
1970
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 two other men

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Bettye Abel standing with Milt Abel (left) and an unidentified African American man (right) and an unidentified white man seated in front of them. All...

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and two others

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An unidentified white man, Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and an unidentified African American woman standing in a group together with a big band playing...

Date Published
May-1967
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and a third man

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Bettye Miller seated with Milt Abel at a table. An unidentified man is crouched down between them and looking directly at the camera. Other people can...

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Rod Padilla

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Bettye Miller, piano, Milt Abel, double bass, and Rod Padilla, drums, performing in the lounge of the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City...

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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Terry Basso

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Bettye Miller in her wedding dress with the groom Milt Abel and drummer Terry Basso on either side of her. All are holding small glasses for a toast...

Date Published
1968
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader

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Bettye Miller, seated at a piano with Milt Abel holding his double bass. George Nader is leaning on the piano with Lois Roberts standing next to him...

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

Buck Clayton playing trumpet in Switzerland

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Buck Clayton playing trumpet on stage with Alain du Bois, guitar, and Georges Furrer, bass in Geneva, Switzerland.

Date Published
February-07-1966
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

George Duvivier and his bass

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George Duvivier holding his bass and looking at the camera with pursed lips; wearing dark framed glasses and a suit and tie.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

George Duvivier and his bass

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George Duvivier, seated and looking to the left, wearing dark framed glasses with the neck of his bass visible next to him; he's wearing a suit and...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

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  • Double bassists
  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (32)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (36)

Genres

  • Snapshots (30)
  • Group portraits (27)
  • Black & white photographs (26)
  • Gelatin silver prints (26)
  • Color photographs (8)
  • Portrait photographs (6)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1961-1970 (36)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (36)
  • Jazz musicians (33)
  • African American men (31)
  • Double bass (28)
  • African American women (25)
  • Pianists (25)
  • Piano (20)
  • Men, White (10)
  • Musical instruments (9)
  • Living rooms (6)
  • Audiences (4)
  • Women, White (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (3)
  • Jazz musicians, White (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • Dog owners (2)
  • Dogs (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Eyeglasses (2)
  • Great Dane (2)
  • Living room furniture (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Portraits, Group (1)
  • Saxophonists (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Trombonists (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Wedding costume (1)
  • Weddings (1)
  • Xylophone (1)
  • (-) Double bassists (36)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Geneva (Switzerland) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (31)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (24)
  • Duvivier, George (2)
  • Barker, LaVerne (1)
  • Basso, Terry (1)
  • Bruce, Franz, 1916-1997 (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Drybread, Bill (Trombonist) (1)
  • Du Bois, Alain (1)
  • Furrer, Georges (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Price, Jesse, 1909-1974 (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Williams, Robert (Musician) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (26)
  • 1970 (26)
  • 1965-04-11 (2)
  • 1966-02-07 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-05 (1)
  • 1968 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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