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Brenda Lee Eager

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Headshot of Brenda Lee Eager leaning forward with her elbows on a table and holding her head in her hands. Eager is wearing a large flower in her hair...

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

Buck Clayton and Helen Humes

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Close up shot of Helen Humes with Buck Clayton.

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton and Norene Tate on stage

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Norene Tate speaking into a microphone on stage with Buck Clayton.

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

Buck Clayton seated with Dicky Wells and possibly Nancy Wilson

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Buck Clayton seated with Dicky Wells and, possibly, Nancy Wilson.

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

Buck Clayton with Ethel Waters

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Buck Clayton seated, smiling, and holding his trumpet on his knee, speaking with Ethel Waters.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Ethel Waters and an unidentified man

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Buck Clayton, seated with Ethel Waters and an unidentified African American man.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton with Nancy Wilson

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Buck Clayton smiling with his arm around Nancy Wilson.

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Jimmy Rushing, and Nancy Wilson

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Buck Clayton and Jimmy Rushing seated by tables, turned away from the camera, with a group of unidentified people. Nancy Wilson is standing and...

Date Published
June-1964
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Buck Clayton, Kenny Clarke, and possibly Nancy Wilson smiling for the photographer

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Kenny Clarke with Buck Clayton, possibly Nancy Wilson and two unidentified people.

Date Published
March-1963
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

By a koi pond

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham standing together with an unidentified Japanese man for a photo beside a large koi pond with tree branches shading them...

Date Published
1995
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham

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Publicity photograph featuring a gesticulating Cab Calloway in a white suit, a clarinet by his side, and Jeannie Cheatham, also in white, seated at a...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham on stage

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Cab Calloway on stage directing a band with Jeannie Cheatham playing piano; eleven other band members are shown wearing black and Calloway and...

Date Published
1984
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Carmen McRae and an unidentified woman with Buck Clayton

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Buck Clayton seated at an outdoor table and speaking with Carmen McRae and an unidentified woman.

Date Published
1951
1960
Member of
Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection

Carrie Smith

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Headshot of singer Carrie Smith looking forward and smiling. Smith is wearing a floral print blouse and hoop earrings.

Date Published
1979
Member of
Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection

Cheathams and band members

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Group portrait of musicians lined up together outside a building; Rickey Woodard, Nolan Smith, Ironman Harris, Dinky Morris, Curtis Peagler, Jeannie &...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams and friend

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham posing for a photo with an unidentified African American man in a hotel lobby; part of a luggage cart and the front doors...

Date Published
1991
2000
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams and friends

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Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham with unidentified group of standing on a stair landing outside a house or apartment; all looking at the camera and smiling.

Date Published
November-1961
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams and others at a restaurant

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham with Rickey Woodard and several Japanese men eating at a row of tables in a restaurant in Japan.

Date Published
1995
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams and Rickey Woodard

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham (middle and right) posing for a photo with Rickey Woodard (left) at a concert of his; all facing the camera and smiling...

Date Published
May-1995
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams Jazz Showcase

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Photo of Jimmy Cheatham leading a band at the Musicians Club in Buffalo, New York with Gene Lee in a white jacket singing at a microphone; Jimmy's...

Date Published
1959
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams receiving an award

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham receiving the African American Musicians Lifetime Achievement Award in San Diego; Hollis Hassell in a red jacket is about...

Date Published
2002
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams with Clora Bryant

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham seated with Clora Bryant on three chairs in a row at the Zora Neale Hurston Award given by the National Association of...

Date Published
November-2006
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams with friends

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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham posing for a photo with an unidentified, older white couple at the Annual National Black Storytelling Festival and...

Date Published
November-2006
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Cheathams with Mel Lewis and Jay McShann

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Mel Lewis, Jeannie Cheatham, Jay McShann, and Jimmy Cheatham all standing together outside of a white luxury car in a parking lot for a photo; Jimmy...

Date Published
1981
1990
Member of
Jimmy & Jeannie Cheatham 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

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