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Audience stands as a woman plays the piano during a MANA de Kansas City event

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An unidentified white woman plays the piano as the Mexican American men and women in the audience stand. Three people stand on the right side of the...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
MANA de Kansas City Collection

Bettye Miller laughing with two people

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Bettye Miller talking and laughing with an unidentified white woman and white man at her birthday party. Other people can be seen in the background.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano

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Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the...

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

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 playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano with an audience of white men and women behind her and to the side of her. Unidentified event. A small lamp is on the...

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

Bettye Miller reading a note

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Bettye Miller standing while reading a note in her hand. Two unidentified white women are standing beside her and an unidentified man seated on a...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller speaking with two women

Image

Bettye Miller speaking with two unidentified white women during her birthday party. One of the women she's speaking with has her head turned away from...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with friends

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Bettye Miller standing outside the venue her birthday party is being held in with three unidentified African American men and an unidentified white...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller with twelve others around a table

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Bettye Miller (standing, center) with twelve unidentified others (African American and white men and women) around a table in a club or restaurant...

Date Published
1951
1960
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

Bettye Miller, Terry Basso, and Milt Abel with large group

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Betty Miller with Terry Basso and Milt Abel posing for a picture with a large group of other performers. One group is wearing black and white striped...

Date Published
1956
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Carol Duboc

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Carol Duboc, singer and pianist, looks seriously at the camera and folds her hands as wind blows her hair back. Printed in the margin below the...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Carol Duboc

Image

Carol Duboc, singer and pianist, looks seriously at the camera in a head-shot photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Carol Duboc...

Date Published
2001
2004
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Cheathams with friends

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham posing for a photo with an unidentified, older white couple at the Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and...

Date Published
November-2006
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Christmas at Children's Mercy Hospital

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A hospital ward crowded with unidentified people and patients (African American and white, men, women, boys, and girls), some in hospital beds...

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing with the Statesmen of Jazz

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left...

Date Published
October-12-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing with the Statesmen of Jazz

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Claude "Fiddler" Williams performing on stage with an incarnation of the Statesmen of Jazz with Jane Jarvis, seated at the piano on the farthest left...

Date Published
October-12-1999
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Count Basie hamming it up with Buck Clayton, Esme Sarnoff, and John Hammond

Image

Buck Clayton, Esme Sarnoff and John Hammond laughing while Count Basie hams it up.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Dana Suesse seated at a piano with George Gershwin and Paul Whiteman

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Dana Suesse seated at a piano flanked by George Gershwin (left) and Paul Whiteman (right) in New York.

Date Published
October-1932
Member of
Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection

Diana Krall at the Kansas City Blues & Jazz Fest

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Diana Krall, wearing sunglasses, behind a microphone during the Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival.

Date Published
July-16-1999
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Diane Schuur - Bobby Watson, Jr. - Monty Alexander - Dr. John

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Diane Schuur, jazz singer and pianist, Bobby Watson, Jr., jazz saxophonist, Dr. John, jazz and blues singer, and Monty Alexander, jazz pianist, in...

Date Published
1991
Member of
Grand Emporium Collection

Doctors singing

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White male doctors singing "Side by Side" dedicated to the 20 year honorees at the Children's Mercy Hospital Staff Awards Ceremony at Crown Center...

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

DownBeat Magazine shoot at Mutual Musicians Foundation

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A bass player stands in the corner of the Mutual Musicians Foundation wearing a straw hat and looking down at the bass. Luqman Hamza sits at the piano...

Date Published
June-09-2000
Member of
Evie Quarles Collection

Ed Dix seated with three others

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Ed Dix (second from the right) seated with an unidentified white male pianist wearing a red ball cap and two unidentified white women in an empty...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Gene Austin playing piano and singing

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Gene Austin playing piano and singing for patients (white girls and boys) and other visitors (African American and white women and a white man) around...

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Children's Mercy Hospital Collection

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Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (16)
  • Jay McShann Collection (12)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (11)
  • Evie Quarles Collection (8)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (8)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (7)
  • MANA de Kansas City Collection (5)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (5)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (3)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Ed Dix Collection (1)
  • Joseph K. Redmond, Jr. Collection (1)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (79)

Genres

  • Group portraits (67)
  • Snapshots (58)
  • Color photographs (46)
  • Black & white photographs (33)
  • Gelatin silver prints (33)
  • Portrait photographs (12)
  • Publicity photographs (7)
  • Cityscape photographs (1)
  • Slides (1)

Time Periods

  • 1971-1980 (18)
  • 1991-2000 (17)
  • 2001-2010 (12)
  • 1981-1990 (6)
  • 1951-1960 (5)
  • 1961-1970 (5)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (51)
  • African American jazz musicians (45)
  • Men, White (44)
  • African American men (40)
  • Jazz musicians, White (26)
  • Piano (26)
  • African American women (23)
  • Audiences (19)
  • Singers (17)
  • Double bassists (11)
  • Musical instruments (9)
  • African American women jazz singers (8)
  • Blues musicians (8)
  • Women pianists (8)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (7)
  • Guitarists (7)
  • Jazz singers (7)
  • Saxophonists (7)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (6)
  • Trombonists (6)
  • Women jazz musicians (6)
  • Double bass (5)
  • Hispanic American women (5)
  • Mexican American women (5)
  • Trumpet players (5)
  • Children, White (4)
  • Fiddlers (4)
  • Violinists (4)
  • Children--Hospital care (3)
  • Conversation (3)
  • Drum set (3)
  • Hats (3)
  • Hospital patients (3)
  • Musicians (3)
  • Nurses (3)
  • Wheelchairs (3)
  • African American women musicians (2)
  • Blues festivals (2)
  • Christmas decorations (2)
  • Cigarettes (2)
  • Composers (2)
  • Cribs (Children's furniture) (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Hispanic American men (2)
  • Jazz festivals (2)
  • Men (2)
  • Mexican Americans (2)
  • Microphone (2)
  • Music fans (2)
  • Music festivals (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (2)
  • Signs and signboards (2)
  • Singing (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Balloons (1)
  • Band directors (1)
  • Band leaders (1)
  • Banners (1)
  • Bass guitarists (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Birdcages (1)
  • Boys (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Christmas trees (1)
  • Cigarette smokers (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Fences (1)
  • Flute (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Handshaking (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospitals--Employees (1)
  • Jamaicans (1)
  • Keyboard players (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Mandolinists (1)
  • Military uniforms (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Name tags (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Percussionists (1)
  • Physicians (1)
  • Posters (1)
  • Promoters (1)
  • Restaurants (1)
  • River boats (1)
  • Sailors (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • School buses (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Socialites (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Sound recording executives and producers (1)
  • Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.) (1)
  • String ensembles (1)
  • Sunglasses (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • (-) Pianists (79)
  • (-) Women, White (79)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (4)
  • Vail (Colo.) (2)
  • Kansas City (Kan.) (1)
  • Lawrence (Kan.) (1)
  • New York (N.Y.) (1)
  • Salina (Kan.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (14)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (11)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (11)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (5)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (4)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (3)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (3)
  • Jarvis, Jane (3)
  • May, Earl, 1927-2008 (3)
  • Powell, Benny (3)
  • Wilder, Joe (3)
  • Wurtzel, BIll (3)
  • Austin, Gene, 1900-1972 (2)
  • Ball, Marcia (2)
  • Brubeck, Dave (2)
  • Duboc, Carol (2)
  • Hunt, Kelley (2)
  • McPartland, Marian (2)
  • Peagler, Curtis (2)
  • Quarles, Evie (2)
  • Watson, Bobby, 1953- (2)
  • Adegbalola, Gaye (1)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Alexander, Monty (1)
  • Allyson, Karrin (1)
  • Anderson, Raymond (Doctor) (1)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (1)
  • Basso, Terry (1)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (1)
  • Butler, Henry (Pianist) (1)
  • Cady, Drew (1)
  • Castro-Martinez, Dina Rodriguez, 1932-2018 (1)
  • Coolsbe, Beth (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Dorn, Helen (1)
  • Dr. John, 1941-2019 (1)
  • Durrett, Warren (1)
  • Faye, Andra (1)
  • Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 (1)
  • Gregg, Joseph Boon, 1913-1995 (1)
  • Grover, Terry (1)
  • Hammond, John, 1910-1987 (1)
  • Hamza, Luqman (1)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (1)
  • Herbert, Jim (1)
  • Hicks, John, 1941-2006 (1)
  • Johnson, Johnnie, 1924-2005 (1)
  • Kenton, Stan (1)
  • Krall, Diana (1)
  • Marion, Grace (1)
  • McShann, Marianne (1)
  • Morris, Dinky (1)
  • Naber, Roger (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Newhall, Jeanne (1)
  • Pakula, Sidney (1)
  • Perkins, Pinetop (1)
  • Peterie, Karla (1)
  • Rabson, Ann (1)
  • Rae, Marcy (1)
  • Roark, Mike (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Rosengarden, Bobby (1)
  • Rowles, Jimmie (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Sarnoff, Esme (1)
  • Saunders, Eddie (1)
  • Schuur, Diane (1)
  • Seely, Clark (1)
  • Smith, Phil (Bassist) (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Suesse, Dana, 1909-1987 (1)
  • Taylor, Joyce (Singer) (1)
  • West, George (Doctor) (1)
  • Whiteman, Paul, 1890-1967 (1)
  • Wood, Elise (1)
  • Woodard, Rickey (1)

Events

  • Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and Conference (24th : 2006 : San Diego, Calif.) (1)
  • Harbor Island Jam Session (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Fest (1991 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (1999) (1)
  • Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival (2000) (1)
  • Kansas City Kansas Street Blues Festival (2004) (1)
  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (1)
  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1991 (12)
  • 2000 (10)
  • 1981 (9)
  • 1990 (9)
  • 1971 (8)
  • 1980 (8)
  • 1976 (7)
  • 1961 (6)
  • 1970 (6)
  • 1951 (4)
  • 1960 (4)
  • 1999-10-12 (3)
  • 2001 (3)
  • 2004 (3)
  • 1968-09 (2)
  • 1974-02-09 (2)
  • 2006 (2)
  • 1932-10 (1)
  • 1941 (1)
  • 1945 (1)
  • 1949 (1)
  • 1956 (1)
  • 1962 (1)
  • 1978-03-19 (1)
  • 1983-03-17 (1)
  • 1984-05-19 (1)
  • 1989-06 (1)
  • 1997-05-11 (1)
  • 1998-11-28 (1)
  • 1999 (1)
  • 1999-07-16 (1)
  • 2000-06-09 (1)
  • 2000-07-20 (1)
  • 2001-07-06 (1)
  • 2002 (1)
  • 2002-12-15 (1)
  • 2003-12-30 (1)
  • 2004-06-26 (1)
  • 2006-11 (1)
  • 2009-09-26 (1)

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