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At the airport

Image

Members of the Sweet Baby Blues Band posing for a photo while at an airport (Red Callender, Dinky Morris, Ironman Harris, Clora Bryant, Rickey Woodard...

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

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

Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham

Image

Publicity photograph featuring a gesticulating Cab Calloway in a white suit, a clarinet by his side, and Jeannie Cheatham, also in white, seated at a...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham on stage

Image

Cab Calloway on stage directing a band with Jeannie Cheatham playing piano; eleven other band members are shown wearing black and Calloway and...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams with Mel Lewis and Jay McShann

Image

Mel Lewis, Jeannie Cheatham, Jay McShann, and Jimmy Cheatham all standing together outside of a white luxury car in a parking lot for a photo; Jimmy...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

City Light Jazz Ensemble in front of the Gem Theater

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City Light Jazz Ensemble sits in and stands by a 1946 De Soto convertible in front of the Gem Theater with Ida McBeth leaning on the right front hood...

Date Published
1988
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Dinky Morris, Jeannie Cheatham and friend

Image

Dinky Morris and Jeannie Cheatham seated at a table; Jeannie is make a gesture with her arms and looking toward the camera; Morris is seen from the...

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

Esther Williams

Image

Headshot of Esther Williams looking forward with a neutral expression. Williams is wearing a ruffled dress.

Date Published
1981
1985
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Fans with the band

Image

Jeannie Cheatham, Red Callender, Jimmy Cheatham, and Clora Bryant on stage at the Jazz Showcase, Chicago, with an unidentified group of African...

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

Fans with the band

Image

Jeannie Cheatham, Red Callender, Jimmy Cheatham, Clora Bryant, and Curtis Peagler standing on stage at the Jazz Showcase, Chicago, with an...

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

Fans with the band

Image

Jeannie Cheatham, Jimmy Cheatham, Dinky Moore, and Curtis Peagler on stage with an unidentified group of people including one woman holding a toddler...

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

Jay McShann with the Cheathams beside a car

Image

Jay McShann, in a suit and tie, Jeannie Cheatham with a straw hat, and Jimmy Cheatham in all white and a white hat, all standing together for a photo...

Date Published
1986
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jay McShann with the Cheathams beside a car

Image

Jay McShann, in a blue suit with red and blue tie, Jeannie Cheatham with a straw hat, and Jimmy Cheatham in all white and a white hat, all standing...

Date Published
1986
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jazz performance directed by Jimmy Cheatham

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Jimmy Cheatham at the right of the photo on stage directing a jazz ensemble of largely white musicians; an unidentified woman is singing into a...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie and family on a Jazz cruise

Image

Jeannie Cheatham seated at a small table in a bar with her Mother (M'ma) and two sisters (Charlotte and Jo-Anne) while on the S.S. Norway during a...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham in hats

Image

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, both wearing white clothing and hats; Jimmy is playing his muted trombone and facing the left while Jeannie is looking...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage

Image

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; Jeannie, in red, is seated at a piano, playing and singing into a microphone...

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

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage

Image

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham on stage at the Blue Note in New York City; Jeannie, in red, is seated at a piano, playing and singing into a microphone...

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

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham receiving an award

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"Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham receiving the Grand Prix du Disque de Jazz award (for their "Sweet baby blues" album), presented by Concord Records...

Date Published
1985
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham with friends

Image

Jeannie (left) and Jimmy (right) Cheatham posing for a photo with two unidentified people between them: an African American man next to Jeannie and a...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham

Image

Jeannie Cheatham seated at a table with a menu and looking over her shoulder at the camera; at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago.

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

Jeannie Cheatham and Benny Carter

Image

Promotional portraits of Jeannie Cheatham and Benny Carter for Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio program (likely air date 2/20/89); Cheatham is at...

Date Published
February-20-1989
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham and Jay McShann

Image

Jeannie Cheatham seated with Jay McShann at a piano with a microphone in front of them; both are smiling and Jeannie seems to have a Band-Aid on her...

Date Published
1982
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham and Thad Jones

Image

Publicity photo of Thad Jones and Jeannie Cheatham at piano at a concert for the Jazz Society of Lower Southern California; view is from behind...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham at the piano

Image

Jeannie Cheatham playing at piano with a microphone in front of her; she has a glass of brandy (likely) and sheet music in front of her; she's facing...

Date Published
1985
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

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  • African American women jazz singers
  • 1981-1990

Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (43)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (3)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (48)

Genres

  • Group portraits (38)
  • Black & white photographs (24)
  • Color photographs (24)
  • Gelatin silver prints (24)
  • Snapshots (20)
  • Publicity photographs (12)
  • Portrait photographs (9)
  • Promotional photographs (2)
  • Promotional materials (1)

Time Periods

  • 1971-1980 (1)
  • (-) 1981-1990 (48)

Subjects

  • Women pianists (43)
  • African American jazz musicians (41)
  • Women jazz musicians (26)
  • Trombonists (25)
  • Jazz musicians (20)
  • Pianists (17)
  • African American women musicians (16)
  • Piano (16)
  • Hats (12)
  • Microphone (12)
  • Saxophonists (12)
  • Signs and signboards (7)
  • Trumpet players (7)
  • African American couples (6)
  • Musical instruments (6)
  • African American band directors (5)
  • Men, White (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • African American women (4)
  • Double bassists (4)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Saxophone (4)
  • Trombone (4)
  • Audiences (3)
  • Automobiles (3)
  • Band directors (3)
  • Chairs (3)
  • Advertising t-shirts (2)
  • African American men (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Conversation (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Jazz musicians, White (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Sisters (2)
  • Sunglasses (2)
  • T-shirts (2)
  • Toddlers (2)
  • African American composers (1)
  • African American families (1)
  • African American girls (1)
  • Airport terminals (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Award presentations (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Award winners (1)
  • Baby strollers (1)
  • Bandages and bandaging (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (1)
  • Belts (Clothing) (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Brick walls (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Cruise ships (1)
  • Drinking glasses (1)
  • Drum set (1)
  • Families (1)
  • Menus (1)
  • Mothers (1)
  • Music rehearsals (1)
  • Mutes (Music) (1)
  • Necklaces (1)
  • Parking lots (1)
  • Periodicals (1)
  • School buses (1)
  • Sheet music (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Suspenders (1)
  • Tables (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • Wood-carved figurines (1)
  • (-) African American women jazz singers (48)

Subjects, Geographic

  • 18th and Vine District (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jeannie (42)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (24)
  • Peagler, Curtis (7)
  • Morris, Dinky (6)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (5)
  • McShann, Jay (4)
  • Woodard, Rickey (4)
  • Callender, Red (3)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (3)
  • Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 (2)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (2)
  • Wallace, Sippie (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Bailey, Pearl (1)
  • Calloway, Chris (1)
  • Carter, Benny (1)
  • Evans, Charlotte (Sister of Jeannie Cheatham) (1)
  • Evans, Jo Anne (1)
  • Horne, Lena (1)
  • Jackson, Calvin (1)
  • Jefferson, Carl E. (1)
  • Jones, Thad (1)
  • Lewis, Mel, 1929-1990 (1)
  • Liston, Melba (1)
  • McBeth, Ida (1)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Mitchell, Grover, 1930-2003 (1)
  • Williams, Esther (Vocalist) (1)
  • Wilson, Spanky (1)

Events

  • Jazz Lovers' Fall Crawl (1988 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1989-06 (16)
  • 1981 (15)
  • 1990 (12)
  • 1984 (5)
  • 1985 (5)
  • 1982 (2)
  • 1983 (2)
  • 1986 (2)
  • 1980 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1989 (1)
  • 1989-02-20 (1)

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