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Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller standing at the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man on double bass, likely Milt Abel...

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

Bettye Miller and trio playing on a porch

Image

Bettye Miller playing the piano on a porch at night with Corky Brown on drums, and an unidentified African American man, likely Milt Abel, on double...

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

Bettye Miller playing on stage

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Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and leaning over toward Milt Abel playing double bass. An unidentified African American man is on drums behind...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing on stage

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on a stage and facing the right of the photo. Milt Abel is playing double bass and an unidentified African American man is...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel 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

Dinky Morris and Ironman Harris performing together

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Dinky Morris, saxophone, and Ironman Harris, drums, performing together on stage on Harbor Island, San Diego.

Date Published
1981
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Doc Cheatham playing trumpet

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"Doc" Cheatham on stage playing trumpet in front of a microphone and using a mute; behind him an unidentified drummer playing a blue set of drums and...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Jay McShann and Ironman Harris on stage

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Jay McShann, and Ironman Harris performing on stage at an unidentified venue with Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham albums displayed in the foreground.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann and Paul Gunther on stage

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Jay McShann playing piano with a microphone in front of him with drummer Paul Gunther behind him; and unidentified third man can be partially seen...

Date Published
January-1971
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann playing at an outdoor concert

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Jay McShann playing piano on stage with an unidentified African American male bassist, and Paul Gunther, drummer, during an outdoor event; tree at the...

Date Published
June-1982
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann singing and playing an electronic piano

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Jay McShann wearing a ball cap singing into a microphone and playing an electronic piano at the 2004 Western Maryland Blues Festival; the head of an...

Date Published
March-2004
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Jimmy Cheatham and Ironman Harris performing

Image

Double exposure image featuring Jay McShann, Jimmy Cheatham, and Ironman Harris all performing on stage at an unknown venue.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jay McShann, Terry Hughes, Ahmad Alaadeen, and Gerald Spaits performing

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Terry Hughes (drums), Gerald Spaits (bass), Ahmad Alaadeen (saxophone), and Jay McShann (piano) performing together at a daytime concert in Palm Beach...

Date Published
April-28-1997
Member of
Jay McShann Collection

Jazz band

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Unidentified jazz ensemble with singer performing; all African Americans and includes a double bassist, drummer, pianist and woman singer in front of...

Date Published
1951
1960
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

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

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Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Rickey Woodard (clarinet), Dinky Morris (saxophone), and Ironman Harris...

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

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

Image

Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Clora Bryant (trumpet), Rickey Woodard (saxophone), Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Dinky Morris (saxophone), and Ironman...

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

On stage at the Jazz Showcase

Image

Jeannie Cheatham playing piano, Dinky Morris playing saxophone, Rickey Woodard playing clarinet, unidentified saxophonist, and Ironman Harris on drums...

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

Rickey Woodard, Dinky Morris, and Ironman Harris performing

Image

Rickey Woodard and Dinky Morris playing saxophones with microphones in front of them and Ironman Harris playing drums behind them; Morris is wearing a...

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

Sweet Baby Blues Band

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Sweet Baby Blues Band members performing (Ralph Penland, drums ; Nolan Smith, trumpet ; George Bohanon, trombone ; Jeff Clayton and Louis Taylor...

Date Published
September-26-2009
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection
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  • Drummers (Musicians)
  • Microphone

Member of

  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (11)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (8)
  • Jay McShann Collection (6)

Types

  • photographs (24)

Genres

  • Group portraits (23)
  • Snapshots (22)
  • Color photographs (16)
  • Black & white photographs (9)
  • Gelatin silver prints (9)
  • Portrait photographs (2)
  • Promotional photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1951-1960 (9)
  • 1981-1990 (9)
  • 1971-1980 (3)
  • 1991-2000 (2)
  • 2001-2010 (2)

Subjects

  • African American jazz musicians (25)
  • Drum set (23)
  • Jazz musicians (23)
  • Piano (18)
  • African American men (16)
  • Pianists (16)
  • Double bass (15)
  • Double bassists (15)
  • Musical instruments (15)
  • African American women (9)
  • Saxophone (9)
  • Saxophonists (9)
  • Jazz musicians, White (7)
  • Men, White (7)
  • Porches (6)
  • Trombone (5)
  • Trombonists (5)
  • Trumpet (4)
  • Trumpet players (4)
  • Hats (3)
  • Jazz singers (3)
  • Signs and signboards (3)
  • Women pianists (3)
  • African American band directors (2)
  • African American women musicians (2)
  • Audiences (2)
  • Band directors (2)
  • Berets (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Clarinetists (2)
  • Women jazz musicians (2)
  • African American women jazz singers (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Clarinet (1)
  • Electronic piano (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Mutes (Music) (1)
  • Trees (1)
  • (-) Drummers (Musicians) (25)
  • (-) Microphone (25)

Subjects, People

  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (8)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (8)
  • Brown, Corky (6)
  • McShann, Jay (6)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (5)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (5)
  • Morris, Dinky (5)
  • Woodard, Rickey (4)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (2)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (2)
  • Copeland, Calvin (Cubby) (2)
  • Crump, Bob (2)
  • Evans, Jerry (Musician) (2)
  • Gunther, Paul (2)
  • Lee, Gene (2)
  • Legge, Jimmy (2)
  • Peagler, Curtis (2)
  • Riding, Albert (Eggie) (2)
  • Shareef, Museyf (2)
  • Shepard, Elvin (2)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (1)
  • Bohanon, George, 1937- (1)
  • Callender, Red (1)
  • Cheatham, Doc (1)
  • Clayton, Jeff (1)
  • Hughes, Terry (Drummer) (1)
  • Penland, Ralph (1)
  • Smith, Nolan (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Taylor, Louis (Saxophonist) (1)

Events

  • Harbor Island Jam Session (1)
  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (1)
  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (1)

Date Published

  • 1951 (7)
  • 1960 (7)
  • 1989-06 (4)
  • 1981 (3)
  • 1959 (2)
  • 1971 (2)
  • 1980 (2)
  • 1990 (2)
  • 1971-01 (1)
  • 1982-06 (1)
  • 1984 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)
  • 1991 (1)
  • 1997-04-28 (1)
  • 2000 (1)
  • 2004-03 (1)
  • 2009-09-26 (1)

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