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At Carnegie Hall

Image

Shot of Buck Clayton and ensemble, (likely Milt Hinton on bass and Jo Jones on drums), from behind while playing Carnegie Hall in New York City...

Date Published
April-09-1954
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Audience watches a formal event

Image

In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, unidentified African American men and one unidentified African American...

Date Published
September-01-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection

Audience watches a formal event

Image

In a room of pink-draped ceiling, a chandelier, and people dressed formally, four unidentified African American men and one unidentified African...

Date Published
September-01-2001
Member of
Claude "Fiddler" Williams 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 playing on stage

Image

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 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 piano during her birthday party

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. Two unidentified men, one standing, are behind her watching as she plays.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano during her birthday party. A cymbal from a drum set is seen at her left and a group of people are seen behind her.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bettye Miller singing and playing piano

Image

Bettye Miller singing while playing the piano during her birthday party. An unidentified man is seated behind her.

Date Published
1976
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

Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and unidentified drummer

Image

Bettye Miller (piano), Milt Abel (double bass), and an unidentified drummer perform for a small audience during Miller's birthday party.

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Bubba Jackson's black drawers

Image

Publicity photo of Bubba Jackson and Jimmy Cheatham performing at the Long Beach Jazz Festival; Cheatham is standing to the right while Jackson is...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Buck Clayton and Mezz Mezzrow in Paris

Image

Mezz Mezzrow and Buck Clayton performing in front of a crowd in Paris, France.

Date Published
1961
1970
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton playing with Eddie Condon's band

Image

Buck Clayton performing in a club with Eddie Condon's Band; seen are Eddie Condon, guitar, Leonard Gaskin, bassist, Herbie Hall, clarinet, likely...

Date Published
August-29-1959
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton solo during filming

Image

Publicity photo of Buck Clayton performing a trumpet solo during filming for The Benny Goodman Story; Steve Allen (as Benny Goodman) is standing at...

Date Published
1955
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Charles Owen playing saxophone

Image

Charles Owen, facing the right of the photo, playing saxophone at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego; a few audience members can be seen behind him.

Date Published
July-05-1995
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Charles Owen playing saxophone

Image

Charles Owens playing saxophone at the Horton Grand Hotel in San Diego; wearing a black jacket and facing the right of the photo; partial views of...

Date Published
July-05-1995
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Clora Bryant playing trumpet

Image

Clora Bryant in a red dress with a large red flower in her hair playing trumpet amidst the audience at the Blue Note in New York City; behind her is...

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

Clora Bryant playing trumpet

Image

Cora Bryant playing trumpet at the Jazz Showcase in Chicago; a number of audience members (all white men) can be seen seated behind her; she's facing...

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

Clora Bryant teasing a friend

Image

Clora Bryant playing trumpet right into the ear of a laughing African American man in a tan jacket; Rickey Woodard can be seen in the background; at...

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

Curtis Peagler and Dinky Morris

Image

Curtis Peagler playing saxophone in front of Dinky Morris seated at a table; another, unidentified, African American man seated next to Morris can be...

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

Curtis Peagler and others at the Blue Note

Image

Clora Bryant, Curtis Peagler (saxophone), Rickey Woodard (saxophone), Dinky Morris (saxophone) and an unidentified double bassist on stage at the Blue...

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

Curtis Peagler performing in a bar

Image

Curtis Peagler playing saxophone in the middle of a crowded bar (likely the Blue Note) and wearing a red hat; a crowd of people are seated all around...

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

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Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (48)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (46)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (18)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (7)
  • Claude "Fiddler" Williams Collection (2)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (2)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (123)

Genres

  • Snapshots (116)
  • Group portraits (110)
  • Color photographs (102)
  • Black & white photographs (23)
  • Gelatin silver prints (23)
  • Portrait photographs (18)
  • Publicity photographs (3)
  • Cityscape photographs (2)

Time Periods

  • 1981-1990 (47)
  • 1991-2000 (25)
  • 1971-1980 (24)
  • 2001-2010 (9)
  • 1961-1970 (7)
  • 1941-1950 (2)
  • 1931-1940 (1)
  • 1951-1960 (1)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (122)
  • African American men (86)
  • Pianists (62)
  • Piano (60)
  • Men, White (53)
  • Jazz musicians, White (35)
  • Saxophonists (34)
  • Musical instruments (31)
  • Double bassists (29)
  • Trumpet players (28)
  • Saxophone (26)
  • African American women (24)
  • Double bass (23)
  • Microphone (21)
  • Trombonists (21)
  • Women, White (21)
  • Hats (18)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (17)
  • Signs and signboards (13)
  • Trumpet (13)
  • Drum set (12)
  • African American women musicians (11)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (11)
  • Trombone (10)
  • Bands (Music) (7)
  • African American women jazz singers (5)
  • Banners (5)
  • Clarinetists (5)
  • Guitarists (5)
  • Jazz singers (5)
  • River boats (5)
  • Trees (5)
  • Women pianists (5)
  • Conversation (4)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (4)
  • Children, White (3)
  • Guitar (3)
  • Hair ornaments (3)
  • Women jazz musicians (3)
  • Actors (2)
  • Applause (2)
  • Big bands (2)
  • Blues musicians (2)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (2)
  • Electronic piano (2)
  • Fans (Machinery) (2)
  • Fans (Persons) (2)
  • Girls (2)
  • Jazz festivals (2)
  • Laughter (2)
  • Sunglasses (2)
  • Suspenders (2)
  • Advertising (1)
  • African American fraternal organizations (1)
  • African American girls (1)
  • Alcoholic beverages (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Camera operators (1)
  • Chauffeurs (1)
  • Cigarettes (1)
  • Cornet players (1)
  • Crowds (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dancers (1)
  • Electric wiring (1)
  • Eyeglasses (1)
  • Fezzes (1)
  • Golf carts (1)
  • Lists (1)
  • Men's underwear (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Motion picture cameras (1)
  • Older women (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Parties (1)
  • Police (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Rivers (1)
  • Smoking (1)
  • Stage lighting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Violinists (1)
  • Women's clothing (1)
  • Women jazz singers (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (125)
  • (-) Audiences (125)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Los Angeles (Calif.) (2)
  • Pennsylvania (2)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (47)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (19)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (14)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (11)
  • Peagler, Curtis (11)
  • Bryant, Clora, 1927- (10)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (8)
  • Callender, Red (8)
  • Woodard, Rickey (8)
  • Morris, Dinky (7)
  • Young, Snooky (7)
  • Clayton, Buck, 1911-1991 (6)
  • Noone, Jimmie, 1938- (5)
  • Clayton, Jeff (3)
  • Harris, John, 1935 January 15- (3)
  • Stephens, John (Jazz musician) (3)
  • Taylor, Louis (Saxophonist) (3)
  • Allen, Steve, 1921-2000 (2)
  • Bohanon, George, 1937- (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Galloway, Jim (2)
  • Owens, Charles, 1939- (2)
  • Smith, Nolan (2)
  • Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001 (2)
  • Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 (1)
  • Boss, Bob (1)
  • Condon, Eddie, 1905-1973 (1)
  • Cutshall, Cutty (1)
  • Funderburgh, Anson (1)
  • Gaskin, Leonard (1)
  • Green, Urbie (1)
  • Gunther, Paul (1)
  • Hackett, Bobby (1)
  • Hall, Herb, 1907-1996 (1)
  • Hinton, Milt (1)
  • Jackson, Bubba (1)
  • Johnson, Reggie (1)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (1)
  • Jones, Thad (1)
  • Lewis, Mel, 1929-1990 (1)
  • Lucas, Clyde (1)
  • Mezzrow, Mezz, 1899-1972 (1)
  • Ruskin, Tommy (1)
  • Schroeder, Gene (1)
  • Singleton, Zutty, 1898-1975 (1)
  • Spaits, Gerald (1)
  • Terry, Clark (1)
  • Wettling, George, 1907-1968 (1)

Events

  • Harbor Island Jam Session (6)
  • Museum of Making Music's Annual Gala (7th : 2009 : Carlsbad, Calif.) (5)
  • Western Maryland Blues Festival (2004) (3)
  • Tony Williams Jazz Fest (2)
  • WDAF's Dixieland Jubilee (1949 : Los Angeles) (2)
  • Long Beach Jazz Festival (1)

Date Published

  • 1989-06 (21)
  • 1991 (18)
  • 2000 (18)
  • 1981 (14)
  • 1971 (12)
  • 1980 (12)
  • 1990 (10)
  • 1961 (9)
  • 1970 (9)
  • 1976 (9)
  • 1984 (6)
  • 2009-09-26 (5)
  • 1995-07-05 (4)
  • 1990-09 (3)
  • 2004-03 (3)
  • 1931 (2)
  • 1940 (2)
  • 1949-10-07 (2)
  • 1955 (2)
  • 1978-05-01 (2)
  • 1983-01 (2)
  • 1993-03 (2)
  • 2001-09-01 (2)
  • 1951 (1)
  • 1954-04-09 (1)
  • 1959-08-29 (1)
  • 1960 (1)
  • 1975-10 (1)
  • 1982-06 (1)
  • 1983-03-17 (1)
  • 1986-06 (1)
  • 1988 (1)
  • 1988-05 (1)
  • 1996 (1)
  • 2003-05-21 (1)

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