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Alice Coltrane

Image

Headshot of Alice Coltrane looking forward and sitting at the piano. Coltrane is wearing a light colored blouse and scarf.

Date Published
1961
1965
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Bettye Miller and Bartie

Image

Bettye Miller posing for a photo with Bartie outside Ma Baker's Stone Motel. Miller is wearing shorts and a sleeveless blouse. Bartie is wearing a...

Date Published
1961
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller and Ketty Lester

Image

Bettye Miller standing with Ketty Lester outside on a patio. Both have jackets on and are smiling at something to the right of the photo. Director...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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

Image

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 greeting fans

Image

Bettye Miller greeting fans. She's speaking with a white man and an African American man holding a hat and possibly a performance program looks on.

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

Bettye Miller in front of a car

Image

Snapshot of Bettye Miller standing in front of a car parked in the lot in front of a large, unidentified, building. She's wearing plaid pants, a...

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

Bettye Miller playing organ in a living room

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano in a living room. The top of the piano includes candlesticks and a Jayhawk figurine. She's facing the camera and smiling.

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 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 playing xylophone

Image

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

Image

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 calla lilies

Image

Bettye Miller standing next to an arrangement of calla lilies. Behind her are two large oxygen tanks and a cylinder with the words "Super Charged" on...

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

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  • Pianists
  • 1961-1970

Member of

  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (40)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (21)
  • Jay McShann Collection (4)
  • Allan Bell Collection (2)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (2)
  • Paul Creston Collection (2)
  • Children's Mercy Hospital Collection (1)
  • Grand Emporium Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (73)

Genres

  • Black & white photographs (64)
  • Gelatin silver prints (62)
  • Snapshots (46)
  • Group portraits (40)
  • Portrait photographs (32)
  • Publicity photographs (18)
  • Color photographs (6)
  • Caricatures (1)
  • Photocopies (1)

Time Periods

  • 1971-1980 (2)
  • 1951-1960 (1)
  • (-) 1961-1970 (73)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (59)
  • Jazz musicians (52)
  • African American men (38)
  • African American women (38)
  • Piano (32)
  • Double bassists (25)
  • Double bass (21)
  • Men, White (14)
  • Musical instruments (10)
  • Audiences (5)
  • Living rooms (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (4)
  • Jazz musicians, White (4)
  • Composers (3)
  • Microphone (3)
  • African American couples (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Drum set (2)
  • Jazz singers (2)
  • Musicians (2)
  • Percussionists (2)
  • Saxophonists (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • Women jazz musicians (2)
  • Actors (1)
  • African American children (1)
  • African Americans (1)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Beer (1)
  • Big bands (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Calla lilies (1)
  • Caricatures and cartoons (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Children--Hospital care (1)
  • Christmas (1)
  • Christmas decorations (1)
  • Conductors (Music) (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dwellings (1)
  • Entertaining (1)
  • Fans (Persons) (1)
  • Gay actors (1)
  • Hand (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Hispanic Americans (1)
  • Hospital beds (1)
  • Hospital patients (1)
  • Jayhawk (1)
  • Keyboards (Music) (1)
  • Lawn chairs (1)
  • LGBTQ actors (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Motels (1)
  • Motion picture actors and actresses (1)
  • Nurses (1)
  • Organ (Musical instrument) (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Rubble (1)
  • Saxophone (1)
  • Tambourine (1)
  • Trumpet players (1)
  • Wedding costume (1)
  • Weddings (1)
  • Wheelchairs (1)
  • Women pianists (1)
  • Women singers (1)
  • Xylophone (1)
  • (-) Pianists (73)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Montevallo (Ala.) (2)

Subjects, People

  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (34)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (24)
  • Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974 (5)
  • McShann, Jay (5)
  • Burton, Gary (2)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (2)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Cowan, Robert (2)
  • Creston, Paul, 1906-1985 (2)
  • DeJohnette, Jack (2)
  • Hamza, Luqman (2)
  • Salisbury, George, 1918-1986 (2)
  • Tyner, McCoy (2)
  • Yarbrough, Joan (2)
  • Basso, Terry (1)
  • Bley, Carla (1)
  • Charles, Ray, 1930-2004 (1)
  • Coltrane-Turiyasangitananda, A. (Alice) (1)
  • Corea, Chick (1)
  • Duchin, Peter (1)
  • Garner, Erroll (1)
  • Garson, Mike (1)
  • Haynes, Roy (1)
  • Kuhn, Steve (1)
  • Lester, Ketty (1)
  • Lewis, Jerry Lee (1)
  • Lewis, Ramsey (1)
  • Miller, Bill, 1915-2006 (1)
  • Nader, George, 1921-2002 (1)
  • Okoski, Tiger (1)
  • Padilla, Rod (1)
  • Roberts, Lois, 1941- (1)
  • Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998 (1)
  • Stringer, Dean (1)
  • Swallow, Steve (1)
  • Torkanowsky, Werner (1)
  • Trumbauer, Bill, 1923-1978 (1)
  • Wilson, Bob (Saxophonist) (1)

Date Published

  • 1961 (50)
  • 1970 (45)
  • 1965 (18)
  • 1961-11 (2)
  • 1968 (2)
  • 1976 (2)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1963 (1)
  • 1965-04-11 (1)
  • 1967 (1)
  • 1967-05 (1)
  • 1968-11-18 (1)
  • 1970-11-22 (1)

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