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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, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader

Image

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

Cadillac Angels

Image

Cadillac Angels, a rockabilly band comprised of one white woman bass player, a white male guitarist, and a white male drummer, stand beside and behind...

Date Published
1998
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Milt Abel and Marian McPartland

Image

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

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing bass in front of a microphone. Photo taken from the side with members of the audience shown (white men and women). The woman at the...

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

Milt Abel playing bass

Image

Milt Abel playing bass with a microphone on a stand in front of him. The photo is taken from the behind an audience, of which two members' heads are...

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

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

Image

Unidentified band performing in front of an audience at Bettye Miller's birthday party. All are white men and include a pianist, double bassist, and a...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

Image

Unidentified white woman singing with an unidentified African American male bassist performing in front of an audience during Bettye Miller's birthday...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

Image

Unidentified white woman singing with an African American male bassist and white male guitarist in front of an audience during Bettye Miller's...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Playing to a large audience

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing in front of a large crowd of white men and women standing in front of them. Photo taken...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection
  • Clear selected
  • Double bass
  • Women, White

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (9)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (10)

Genres

  • Group portraits (9)
  • Snapshots (9)
  • Black & white photographs (7)
  • Gelatin silver prints (7)
  • Color photographs (3)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (4)
  • 1971-1980 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • 1991-2000 (1)
  • 2001-2010 (1)

Subjects

  • Double bassists (9)
  • Jazz musicians (9)
  • African American jazz musicians (8)
  • African American men (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Audiences (7)
  • Pianists (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Piano (4)
  • Musical instruments (3)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Guitarists (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Rockabilly musicians (1)
  • (-) Double bass (10)
  • (-) Women, White (10)

Subjects, People

  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (6)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (3)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)

Events

  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (4)
  • 1970 (4)
  • 1976 (3)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1978-03-19 (1)
  • 1998 (1)
  • 2004 (1)

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