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Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

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Bettye Miller singing into a microphone while playing piano on stage with (likely) Milt Abel. A tear in the photograph makes only the double bass...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Buck Clayton with Big Joe Turner and others

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Joe Turner singing on stage with Buck Clayton, Stuff Smith on violin and Jimmy Woode on bass in Paris, France.

Date Published
1965
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton 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

Group photo with Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham

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Group photo of a group of jazz musicians sitting for a formal portrait and including Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham; Jimmy is holding his trombone and...

Date Published
1981
1990
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

Performers at Bettye Miller's birthday party

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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

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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
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  • Double bass
  • Jazz singers

Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (6)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (3)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (10)

Genres

  • Group portraits (9)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Snapshots (5)
  • Black & white photographs (4)
  • Gelatin silver prints (4)
  • Promotional photographs (2)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • Publicity photographs (1)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (4)
  • 1951-1960 (3)
  • 1971-1980 (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (10)
  • Jazz musicians (10)
  • Double bassists (8)
  • Piano (7)
  • African American women (5)
  • Drum set (5)
  • Jazz musicians, White (5)
  • Pianists (5)
  • African American men (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Men, White (4)
  • Microphone (4)
  • Musical instruments (4)
  • Audiences (3)
  • Saxophone (3)
  • Saxophonists (3)
  • Trombone (3)
  • Trombonists (3)
  • African American band directors (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Guitar (2)
  • Guitarists (2)
  • Television specials (2)
  • Trumpet players (2)
  • Women, White (2)
  • Women pianists (2)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • (-) Double bass (10)
  • (-) Jazz singers (10)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jeannie (6)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (3)
  • Copeland, Calvin (Cubby) (2)
  • Crump, Bob (2)
  • Evans, Jerry (Musician) (2)
  • Lee, Gene (2)
  • Legge, Jimmy (2)
  • Riding, Albert (Eggie) (2)
  • Shareef, Museyf (2)
  • Shepard, Elvin (2)
  • Wallace, Sippie (2)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (1)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (1)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (1)
  • Smith, Stuff (1)
  • Turner, Joe, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Woode, Jimmy (1)

Date Published

  • 1959 (2)
  • 1976 (2)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1965 (1)
  • 1981 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)
  • 1990 (1)

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