Skip to main content

UMKC University Libraries logoUMKC University LibrariesDigital Collections

UMKC University Libraries

UMKC University Libraries

  • Collections
  • About

Breadcrumb

  1. Home
  2. Search Results

Search Results

1 - 25 of 297 items

Ahmad Alaadeen and Milt Abel wait at an airport

Image

An unidentified man, Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a sun visor, and Milt Abel smile about the conversation while sitting in an unidentified airport terminal...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen and Tayammum Falah

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen and Tayammum Falah, both wearing tuxedos, are seated at a table with tablecloths. A boy is visible between them that is seated behind...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performing outside

Image

Close-up of Ahmad Alaadeen performing outside with a band, possibly Eddie Baker's Charlie Parker Academy band. Trees, a drum set and the bass player's...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performing outside

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen, standing on a stage outside and wearing a ball cap, performing with a band, possibly Eddie Baker's Charlie Parker Academy band

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen, from his left, stands by a bar stool by a microphone and blows into an alto saxophone.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with students

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen performing with Eddie Baker's Charlie Parker Academy band on an indoor stage. Two students are visible behind Ahmad.

Date Published
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with students

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen performing on a stage indoors with Eddie Baker (piano) and his Charlie Parker Academy band.

Date Published
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen performs with students

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a ball cap, performing with a band, possibly Eddie Baker's Charlie Parker Academy band, at an outdoor concert in front of a...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen playing flute with a violin student

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen, from his right, plays a flute while teaching an seated unidentified female violin student at the Charlie Parker Academy in Kansas City...

Date Published
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen seated outside

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen sits outside by a rock wall wearing a flat cap and large, square eyeglasses

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen sits outside an airport

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen, wearing a sun visor, sitting outside an unidentified airport terminal.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen stands outside with friends

Image

An unidentified man, Ricky Anderson, Horace Washington, and Ahmad Alaadeen stand outside among trees at an unidentified outdoor setting.

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen takes a look

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen seated in a crowded room with an unidentified woman at a table with food in clam-shell trays on it, looks over a large paper he holds...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen takes a solo while performing with Eddie Baker's New Breed Orchestra

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen stands while performing with Eddie Baker's New Breed Orchestra. Sonny Kenner is visible in the foreground of the photograph. The band...

Date Published
1980
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Ahmad Alaadeen teaching class

Image

Ahmad Alaadeen teaching a class at the Charlie Parker Academy in Kansas City, Missouri.

Date Published
1975
Member of
Ahmad Alaadeen Collection

Air Cadets band at an unidentified venue

Image

Air Cadets band at an unidentified venue. Five unidentified men are standing in front of a microphone. They are wearing black tuxedos and are smiling.

Date Published
1995
2000
Member of
Betty Crow Collection

At the Cheatham Jam Session

Image

Jimmy Cheatham (trombone), Jim Zollar, Dinky Morris (saxophone), Jimmy Noone Jr. (clarinet), unidentified, Billy (harmonica), in a row at a Cheatham...

Date Published
1971
1980
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

B.B. King tasting broccoli

Image

"Blues singer B. B. King is hardly blue as he sizes up the broccoli he sets a' simmering during his guest spot on the premiere program of "Feeling...

Date Published
1971
1975
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Betty Miller performing on stage

Image

Bettye Miller playing piano on stage and looking over to the right of the photo. Milt Abel is partially seen playing bass beside the piano. Part of a...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Image

Bettye Miller on piano performing on stage with Milt Abel on double bass next to her.

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a car

Image

Bettye Miller behind the wheel of a car with Milt Abel leaning toward her from the passenger seat. She's turned toward him and smiling. Photo taken...

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

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a hallway

Image

Bettye Miller and Milt Abel in a dimly lit hallway at an unidentified location. Abel is a few paces behind Miller and has one hand in his pants pocket...

Date Published
1976
Member of
Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Pagination

  • Current page 1
  • Page 2
  • Page 3
  • Page 4
  • Page 5
  • …
  • Next page ›
  • Last page Last »
  • Clear selected
  • African American jazz musicians
  • 1971-1980

Member of

  • Jay McShann Collection (74)
  • Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection (61)
  • Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection (48)
  • Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection (42)
  • Ahmad Alaadeen Collection (28)
  • Allan Bell Collection (16)
  • Betty Crow Collection (15)
  • Warren Durrett Collection (7)
  • Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection (4)
  • Ed Dix Collection (2)

Types

  • photographs (297)

Genres

  • Snapshots (181)
  • Group portraits (161)
  • Black & white photographs (150)
  • Gelatin silver prints (150)
  • Color photographs (144)
  • Portrait photographs (118)
  • Publicity photographs (67)
  • Promotional photographs (3)
  • Architectural photographs (1)
  • Clippings (1)
  • Instant camera photographs (1)
  • Photomechanical prints (1)

Time Periods

  • 1961-1970 (12)
  • 1981-1990 (1)
  • 1991-2000 (1)
  • (-) 1971-1980 (297)

Subjects

  • Jazz musicians (202)
  • African American men (153)
  • Pianists (113)
  • Piano (76)
  • Double bassists (63)
  • Saxophonists (62)
  • Drummers (Musicians) (56)
  • Men, White (56)
  • African American women (48)
  • Jazz musicians, White (48)
  • Double bass (43)
  • Trombonists (34)
  • Drum set (31)
  • Women, White (30)
  • Jazz singers (26)
  • Microphone (25)
  • Audiences (24)
  • Musical instruments (22)
  • Trumpet players (20)
  • Women jazz musicians (19)
  • African American women jazz singers (18)
  • Guitarists (17)
  • Women pianists (17)
  • Saxophone (16)
  • Trombone (14)
  • Bars (Drinking establishments) (13)
  • Keyboard players (13)
  • African American Muslims (11)
  • Big bands (11)
  • Black Muslims (10)
  • Photographs (10)
  • Trumpet (9)
  • African American male singers (8)
  • Band directors (8)
  • African American guitarists (7)
  • Clarinet (7)
  • Guitar (7)
  • Hats (7)
  • Automobiles (6)
  • Clarinetists (6)
  • Conversation (6)
  • Jackets (6)
  • Living rooms (6)
  • Trees (6)
  • Cigarettes (5)
  • Male singers (5)
  • Mutes (Music) (5)
  • Portraits (5)
  • Signs and signboards (5)
  • T-shirts (5)
  • Advertising (4)
  • Drinking of alcoholic beverages (4)
  • Long hair (4)
  • Music students (4)
  • Portraits, Group (4)
  • Posters (4)
  • Alcoholic beverages (3)
  • Banners (3)
  • Chairs (3)
  • Electric wiring (3)
  • Eyeglasses (3)
  • Hairdressing of African Americans (3)
  • Men's clothing (3)
  • Smoking (3)
  • Sofas (3)
  • Sunglasses (3)
  • Tables (3)
  • Violinists (3)
  • African American band directors (2)
  • African American college teachers (2)
  • African American couples (2)
  • African American music teachers (2)
  • Award presentations (2)
  • Bands (Music) (2)
  • Birthday cakes (2)
  • Birthday parties (2)
  • Bottles (2)
  • Brick walls (2)
  • Caftans (2)
  • College teachers (2)
  • Cornet players (2)
  • Crowds (2)
  • Dancers (2)
  • Drinking glasses (2)
  • Dwellings (2)
  • Entertaining (2)
  • Masters of ceremonies (2)
  • Mickey Mouse (2)
  • Photographers (2)
  • Restaurants (2)
  • Shells (2)
  • Stands (Furniture) (2)
  • Tobacco pipes (2)
  • Vibraphone (2)
  • African American boys (1)
  • African American women musicians (1)
  • African American women singers (1)
  • Arts fund raising (1)
  • Autographs (1)
  • Awards (1)
  • Awnings (1)
  • Beards (1)
  • Benches (1)
  • Berets (1)
  • Blackboards (1)
  • Black people (1)
  • Buildings (1)
  • Cameras (1)
  • Candles (1)
  • Canoes and canoeing (1)
  • Champagne (Wine) (1)
  • Children, White (1)
  • Chinese Americans (1)
  • Choirs (Music) (1)
  • Clocks and watches (1)
  • Coats (1)
  • Composers (1)
  • Corduroy (1)
  • Cymbals (1)
  • Dance (1)
  • Desks (1)
  • Dinners and dining (1)
  • Dollar, American (1)
  • Dressing rooms (Performing arts) (1)
  • Easels (1)
  • Eiffel Tower (Paris, France) (1)
  • Electric light fixtures (1)
  • Engineers (1)
  • Factories (1)
  • Fiddlers (1)
  • Fireplaces (1)
  • Flute (1)
  • Flute players (1)
  • Gesture (1)
  • Girls (1)
  • Guitar players (1)
  • Harmonica (1)
  • Harmonica players (1)
  • Keyboard instruments (1)
  • Laboratories (1)
  • Marquees (1)
  • Men (1)
  • Mirrors (1)
  • Motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • Music--Posters (1)
  • Music festivals (1)
  • Necklaces (1)
  • Organists (1)
  • Painting (1)
  • Pedestrians (1)
  • Philodendrons (1)
  • Radio personalities (1)
  • Rhythm and blues musicians (1)
  • Scores (1)
  • Singers (1)
  • Sound--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Sound studios (1)
  • South Africans (1)
  • Stage lighting--Equipment and supplies (1)
  • Stairs (1)
  • Station wagons (1)
  • Stores, Retail (1)
  • Streets (1)
  • Sweaters (1)
  • Telephone (1)
  • Vests (1)
  • Violin (1)
  • Wine bottles (1)
  • Wine glasses (1)
  • Women motion picture producers and directors (1)
  • (-) African American jazz musicians (297)

Subjects, Geographic

  • Kansas City (Mo.) (7)
  • 18th and Vine District (3)
  • New York (N.Y.) (2)
  • Paris (France) (2)
  • Lawrence (Kan.) (1)
  • Nice (France) (1)
  • Toronto (Ont.) (1)

Subjects, People

  • McShann, Jay (72)
  • Abel, Milt, 1928- (39)
  • Miller, Bettye, 1928-1977 (39)
  • Alaadeen, Ahmad (28)
  • Cheatham, Jimmy (22)
  • Cheatham, Jeannie (17)
  • Gunther, Paul (12)
  • Falah, Tayammum (10)
  • Durrett, Warren (7)
  • Hamza, Luqman (7)
  • Baker, Eddie, 1927- (6)
  • Basie, Count, 1904-1984 (6)
  • Benson, George, 1943- (5)
  • Jones, Jo, 1911-1985 (5)
  • Kenner, Sonny, 1933-2001 (5)
  • Williams, Claude, 1908-2004 (5)
  • Hancock, Herbie, 1940- (4)
  • Blake, Eubie, 1887-1983 (3)
  • Boyer, Pierre, 1942-1997 (3)
  • Fields, Ernie, Jr. (3)
  • Glenn, Tyree (3)
  • Masse, Jean-Marie (3)
  • Morris, Dinky (3)
  • Newman, David, 1933-2009 (3)
  • Robinson, Janice (3)
  • Sullivan, Maxine, 1911-1987 (3)
  • Taylor, Billy, 1921-2010 (3)
  • Vinson, Eddie (3)
  • Witherspoon, Jimmy (3)
  • Bolcom, William (2)
  • Coleman, Bill, 1904-1981 (2)
  • Dix, Ralph Edward, 1929-2020 (2)
  • Jackson, Arthur, 1920-2006 (2)
  • Jenkins, Carroll (2)
  • Johnson, Gus, 1913-2000 (2)
  • Johnson, Lew (2)
  • Jones, Thad (2)
  • Jones, Wallace (Drummer) (2)
  • Lovett, Baby (2)
  • McConnell, Jimmy (2)
  • Silver, Horace, 1928-2014 (2)
  • Sutton, Ralph, 1922-2001 (2)
  • Tate, Buddy (2)
  • Washington, Grover, Jr., 1943-1999 (2)
  • Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981 (2)
  • Adderley, Nat, 1931-2000 (1)
  • Anderson, Ricky (1)
  • Banarse, Pratap (1)
  • Bartee, Al (1)
  • Blanc, Roger (1)
  • Bolling, Claude (1)
  • Bowman, Priscilla (1)
  • Brown, Everett (Musician) (1)
  • Cables, George (1)
  • Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994 (1)
  • Coleman, Lily (1)
  • Collette, Buddy, 1921-2010 (1)
  • Comer, Carol (1)
  • Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 (1)
  • Davis, Miles (1)
  • Dougherty, Bob (1)
  • Duke, George (1)
  • Felder, Wilton (1)
  • Findaly, George, 1948- (1)
  • Flanagan, Tommy (1)
  • Friney, Enumit (1)
  • Glenn, Lloyd (1)
  • Glenn, Roger (1)
  • Goodwin, Charles (Vocalist) (1)
  • Gray, Paul, 1947- (1)
  • Gregg, Diane (1)
  • Grey, Al (1)
  • Grimes, Tiny, 1916-1989 (1)
  • Handy, John, 1933- (1)
  • Hanna, Roland (1)
  • Hawkins, Marshall (1)
  • Hoard, J. Henry (John Henry), 1918-2010 (1)
  • Hubbard, Freddie (1)
  • Huggins, Speedy, 1913-1999 (1)
  • Jackson, Calvin (1)
  • Johnson, Budd (1)
  • Johnson, Sam, Jr. (1)
  • Jones, Carmell (1)
  • Jones, Quincy, 1933- (1)
  • Kaminsky, Max, 1908-1994 (1)
  • King, B. B. (1)
  • King, Charley (1)
  • Kunene, Sipho (1)
  • Laws, Ronnie (1)
  • Lee, Marcellus (1)
  • Lewis, Mel, 1929-1990 (1)
  • McCann, Les, 1935- (1)
  • McFadden, Lonnie (1)
  • McFadden, Ronnie (1)
  • McGhee, Charles E. (1)
  • McGriff, Jimmy (1)
  • McPartland, Marian (1)
  • Mitchell, Art (Musician) (1)
  • Mitchell, Grover, 1930-2003 (1)
  • Morgan, Stanley (Guitarist) (1)
  • Muhammad, John (1)
  • Muhammad, Nathaniel (1)
  • Ning, Mike (1)
  • Noone, Jimmie, 1938- (1)
  • Parenti, Tony, 1900-1972 (1)
  • Peagler, Curtis (1)
  • Peterson, Oscar, 1925-2007 (1)
  • Phillips, Rose (Musician) (1)
  • Price, Elmer, 1917-2004 (1)
  • Quinichette, Paul (1)
  • Reid, Rufus (1)
  • Ribière, Jacques (Musician) (1)
  • Ricker, Bruce, 1942-2011 (1)
  • Robinson, Earl (Musician) (1)
  • Rollins, Sonny (1)
  • Shabazz, Muhammad (1)
  • Sims, Zoot (1)
  • Tarlow, Victoria (1)
  • Thomas, Joe, 1909-1986 (1)
  • Todd, Oliver, 1916-2001 (1)
  • Vaughan, Sarah, 1924-1990 (1)
  • Walden, Narada Michael (1)
  • Washington, Horace, 1952-2014 (1)
  • Wellman, Angie (1)
  • Wick, Pat (Musician) (1)
  • Williams, Jackie, 1933- (1)
  • Williamson, Sonny Boy, -1965 (1)
  • Withers, Bill, 1938- (1)
  • Zanders, Al (1)
  • Zollar, James (1)

Events

  • Women's Jazz Festival (Kansas City, Kan.) (4)
  • Cheatham Jam Session (2)
  • Monterey Jazz Festival (1980 : Monterey, Calif.) (1)
  • Nice Festival (1976 : Nice, France) (1)
  • Wichita Jazz Festival (1972 : Wichita, Kan.) (1)

Date Published

  • 1971 (149)
  • 1980 (147)
  • 1975 (59)
  • 1976 (42)
  • 1995 (15)
  • 2000 (15)
  • 1961 (10)
  • 1979 (7)
  • 1980-12 (6)
  • 1975-10 (4)
  • 1978-12-01 (4)
  • 1971-01 (3)
  • 1978-03-19 (3)
  • 1980-04 (3)
  • 1972-02-07 (2)
  • 1972-08 (2)
  • 1973 (2)
  • 1978-05-01 (2)
  • 1972 (1)
  • 1972-02-11 (1)
  • 1972-04-30 (1)
  • 1972-12 (1)
  • 1973-09 (1)
  • 1973-12-06 (1)
  • 1974-11-24 (1)
  • 1975-07 (1)
  • 1977 (1)
  • 1977-11-20 (1)
  • 1978-09 (1)
  • 1979-06 (1)
  • 1979-08 (1)
  • 1979-11 (1)
  • 1980-06 (1)
  • 1980-10 (1)
  • 1989 (1)

Related Departments

Digital Projects

Digitized and described primary sources from UMKC Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives.

LaBudde Special Collections

Print archives and research center serving scholars and organizations from around the world.

Marr Sound Archives

Over 400,000 items with a focus on the American experience as reflected in recorded sound.

University Archives

Records, catalogs, and publications from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

  • Contact Us   |  Terms of Use   |  Acknowledgments   | UMKC Libraries   |  Hosted by University of Missouri Library Systems   |  Copyright ©2025