Bettye Miller - Milt Abel Collection

Description

This collection focuses on the time that Bettye Miller and Milt Abel spent together as musicians, and as husband and wife. The couple was nationally known in the jazz community and performed together in cities all over the country.

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LaBudde Special Collections

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Milt Abel playing bass

Milt Abel playing bass in front of a wall of photographs at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. An unidentified man is seated to the left of the photograph and the hand of a drummer holding a drumstick can be seen at the right.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Bettye Miller, piano, with Milt Abel, bass, performing on stage together. Miller has a microphone set up near her face and she's looking into the camera. There is a tambourine at Abel's feet.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Milt Abel playing bass

Milt Abel playing bass with a microphone on a stand in front of him. The photo is taken from the behind an audience, of which two members' heads are seen. They have drinks on a table in front of them.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Milt Abel playing bass

Milt Abel playing bass in front of a microphone. Photo taken from the side with members of the audience shown (white men and women). The woman at the far left is smoking a cigarette.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Bettye Miller playing piano

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. Three audience members (two white women and a white man) are seen beyond her.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, bass, performing together. There is a cymbal from a drum set in the foreground of the photo.

Type: Image

File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0066.png

Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Portrait of Bettye Miller at the piano

Promotional portrait photo of Bettye Miller seated at the piano and leaning in toward the camera, smiling.

Type: Image

File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0067.png

Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Portrait of Bettye Miller in front of a piano

Promotional photo of Betty Miller standing in front of a piano.

Type: Image

File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0068.png

Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Bettye Miller in a white dress

Bettye Miller posing on stage in a white dress with floral elements. Facing the camera.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking

Photo of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to a large crowd with a drawing of mountains and the words "I've Been to the Mountain Top" in the wide border under the photograph. The speech was given April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated.

Type: Image

File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0192.png

Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Promotional photo of Louis Jordan and Dottie Smith

Promotional photo of Louis Jordan and Dottie Smith. The text reads "Louis Jordan's Tympany '5'" and "Dottie Smith".

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Unidentified trio examining a score

Promotional photo of an unidentified trio of white men in suits examining a score together.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Promotional photo of Carmell Jones

Promotional photo of Carmell Jones wearing a tuxedo and holding his trumpet to his lips. Text in the border reads "Carmell Jones International Recording Artist".

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Promotional photo of Stanley Morgan's Ink Spots

Promotional photo of Stanley Morgan's Ink Spots. They're wear tuxedos with three members seated and two standing behind them.

Type: Image

File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0196.png

Collection Identifier: MS-0067

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Portrait of Willie Dixon

Portrait of Willie Dixon at the Lone Star, Kansas City, Missouri. He's wearing a hat and is in front of a microphone.

Type: Image

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Collection Identifier: MS-0067