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Ahmad Alaadeen, David Basse, and Bernard "Step Buddy" Anderson (trumpet) enjoy performing

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Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), looks straight at the photographer with a surprised face. David Basse (vocal), standing and singing into a microphone...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen 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

City Light Orchestra enjoying the park and the view

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Publicity photograph of the City Light Orchestra: Tim Whitmer, LaVerne Barker, David Basse, wearing a fedora, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Jano Mossman...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing at City Light Restaurant and Bar

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A postcard of The City Light Orchestra performing: Tim Whitmer (piano), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), LaVerne Barker (bass), David Basse (drums). The...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra performing outside

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City Light Orchestra: David Basse (drums), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), unidentified bass player, unidentified (saxophone), unidentified (trumpet)...

Date Published
1983
1986
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

City Light Orchestra publicity photograph

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City Light Orchestra: (clockwise from top) David Basse, Ahmad Alaadeen, Tim Whitmer, and LaVerne Barker, smile directly at the photographer. LaVerne...

Date Published
1985
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Deborah Brown singing

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Deborah Brown singing into a microphone held close to her mouth. She's facing the left of the photo.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Drawing of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Publicity reproduction of a painting featuring portraits of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and "Big Mama" Thornton arranged against a background of...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Ed Dix watching jazz singer

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Ed Dix (right) with his saxophone on stage watching an unidentified white woman singing into a microphone with two unidentified white male guitarists...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Ed Dix 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

Jay McShann, Jeannie Cheatham and Charles McPherson

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Jay McShann, Jeannie Cheatham, and Charles McPherson standing together outside of a white Cadillac parked under the covered entrance to a hotel; arm...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jazz quartet on stage

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Four unidentified African American men perform on a lighted stage at night. Includes pianist, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Jazz quartet on stage

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Four unidentified African American men perform on a lighted stage at night. Includes pianist, guitarist, bassist, and vocalist.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Ed Dix Collection

Jeannie Cheatham and Illinois Jacquet

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Publicity photo of Jeannie Cheatham seated at the piano with Illinois Jacquet, hand on one hip and holding his saxophone, standing behind her during a...

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jeannie Cheatham arm in arm with Sippie Wallace and Big Mama Thornton

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Jeannie Wallace (right), standing arm in arm on stage with "Big Mama" Thornton (center), and Sippie Wallace (left); Thornton and Wallace both are...

Date Published
1983
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 Eddie Vinson and Papa John Creach

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Jeannie Cheatham standing with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson and Papa John Creach outside an unidentified building; both men are wearing sunglasses and...

Date Published
1987
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

Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

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Publicity photo for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" (filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach) featuring a performance shot of...

Date Published
1983
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham

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Publicity photo of Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham seated side by side in chairs with some sort of raffia covered decorative item between them; Jimmy is...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jimmy Witherspoon singing

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Jimmy Witherspoon singing into a microphone on stage. He is wearing a suit and looking to the right. Unidentified musicians are playing behind him.

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

Joe Newman and Marilyn Moore

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Joe Newman seated on a low couch with Marilyn Moore next to him; Newman's holding a microphone and wearing headphones; Moore is wearing a red and...

Date Published
July-1981
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Lena Horne

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Lena Horne, from her left side with her right hand to her neck, in a publicity photo signed to Ahmad.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Warren Durrett and his orchestra at Crown Center Hotel

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Warren Durrett standing on a stage to the left of his orchestra in a tuxedo and bow tie, next to a keyboard and amplifier, with a sign on the keyboard...

Date Published
December-04-1982
Member of
Warren Durrett Collection

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Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (11)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (7)
  • Ed Dix Collection (3)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (3)
  • Betty Crow Collection (1)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (1)
  • Jay McShann Collection (1)

Types

  • photographs (27)

Genres

  • Group portraits (24)
  • Color photographs (15)
  • Black & white photographs (11)
  • Publicity photographs (11)
  • Snapshots (11)
  • Gelatin silver prints (10)
  • Photographic postcards (2)
  • Reproductions (2)
  • Paintings (1)
  • Portrait photographs (1)
  • Promotional materials (1)

Time Periods

  • (-) 1981-1990 (27)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (25)
  • African American jazz musicians (24)
  • Pianists (15)
  • African American women (12)
  • Saxophonists (11)
  • African American men (10)
  • Double bassists (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (8)
  • Men, White (8)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (7)
  • Piano (6)
  • Television specials (5)
  • Women, White (5)
  • Double bass (4)
  • Drum set (4)
  • Guitarists (4)
  • Microphone (4)
  • Band directors (3)
  • Bass guitarists (3)
  • Big bands (3)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (3)
  • Trumpet players (3)
  • African American women jazz singers (2)
  • Saxophone (2)
  • Trombonists (2)
  • Audiences (1)
  • Automobiles (1)
  • Bands (Music) (1)
  • Cadillac automobile (1)
  • Drum (1)
  • Guitar (1)
  • Hats (1)
  • Headphones (1)
  • Hotels (1)
  • Musical instruments (1)
  • Name tags (1)
  • Necklaces (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Photographs (1)
  • Portraits (1)
  • Sofas (1)
  • Trombone (1)
  • Trumpet (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) Jazz singers (27)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Solana Beach (Calif.) (5)
  • Kansas City (Mo.) (3)
  • 18th and Vine District (1)
  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • Cheatham, Jeannie (11)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (6)
  • Basse, David (5)
  • Wallace, Sippie (5)
  • Whitmer, Tim (4)
  • Barker, LaVerne (3)
  • Durrett, Warren (3)
  • Thornton, Big Mama (3)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (2)
  • Anderson, Bernard, 1919-1997 (1)
  • Brown, Deborah, 1952- (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Creach, Papa John (1)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (1)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (1)
  • Horne, Lena (1)
  • Jacquet, Illinois (1)
  • McBeth, Ida (1)
  • McPherson, Charles (1)
  • McShann, Jay (1)
  • Moore, Marilyn, 1931- (1)
  • Mossman, Jano (1)
  • Newman, Joe (1)
  • Vinson, Eddie (1)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (1)

Events

  • Central Avenue Jazz Festival (1)
  • Harbor Island Jam Session (1)
  • Jazz Lovers' Fall Crawl (1988 : Kansas City, Mo.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1981 (9)
  • 1983 (9)
  • 1990 (8)
  • 1986 (4)
  • 1982-12-04 (3)
  • 1981-07 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1985 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)
  • 1987 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1995 (1)
  • 2000 (1)

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