Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Collection

Description
This collection documents the personal and professional lives of blues musicians and married couple Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham. Also highlighted is the history of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, which was birthed by the Cheathams in 1983.
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LaBudde Special Collections
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Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham on stage

Cab Calloway on stage directing a band with Jeannie Cheatham playing piano; eleven other band members are shown wearing black and Calloway and Cheatham wearing white; sign on stage behind the band reads "Cab Calloway & orchestra with special guest Chris Calloway; Jeannie is to the left of the photo with her back to the camera and Calloway is to the right turned sideways looking over toward Jeannie; unknown venue.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie Cheatham and Illinois Jacquet

Publicity photo of Jeannie Cheatham seated at the piano with Illinois Jacquet, hand on one hip and holding his saxophone, standing behind her during a jam session on Harbor Island; side view with both facing to the left; other unidentified musicians are seen behind them.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie Cheatham with Calvin Jackson

Jeannie Cheatham seated at a piano, looking down at the keyboard, with Calvin Jackson and his saxophone standing next to her against a brick wall; three other unidentified musicians are beyond Jackson with an Exit sign over their heads; view taken from the side with Cheatham in the foreground.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie Cheatham and Thad Jones

Publicity photo of Thad Jones and Jeannie Cheatham at piano at a concert for the Jazz Society of Lower Southern California; view is from behind Cheatham, wearing a hat and checkered coat, looking at Thad Jones behind the piano holding his trumpet and smiling.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Cab Calloway and Jeannie Cheatham

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 piano and looking over her shoulder back towards Calloway.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie Cheatham with Janice Robinson

Jeannie Cheatham standing next to Janice Robinson in Madison, Wisconsin; Robinson is holding a glass of something and a telephone is seen on the wall behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_cheatham_photo-019.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

Publicity photo for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" (filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach) featuring a performance shot of Jeannie Cheatham seated at a piano looking over at Sippie Wallace, wearing a hat, and "Big Mama" Thornton, also in a hat, holding a microphone; unidentified musicians and a drum set seen behind them.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie Cheatham arm in arm with Sippie Wallace and Big Mama Thornton

Jeannie Wallace (right), standing arm in arm on stage with "Big Mama" Thornton (center), and Sippie Wallace (left); Thornton and Wallace both are wearing hats; Cheatham and Thornton are both looking at something to the left; unidentified, white male bassist and parts of other musicians seen behind them; part of the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_cheatham_photo-023.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Mary Lou Williams playing piano

View from the side of Mary Lou Williams playing piano (facing the right) with a chorus of Women singers, including Jeannie Cheatham, behind her; also seen is an unidentified African American male drummer.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jimmy Cheatham receiving an award

Jimmy Cheatham on stage accepting an award from an unidentified man; Jimmy is wearing all white and a hat; cymbals can be seen behind them and they are standing by a microphone.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jimmy Cheatham at his desk

Jimmy Cheatham seated at his desk in Madison; it, along with the wall and shelf behind him, are covered in papers; he's facing the camera and smiling.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Drawing of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and Big Mama Thornton

Publicity reproduction of a painting featuring portraits of Jeannie Cheatham, Sippie Wallace, and "Big Mama" Thornton arranged against a background of blue brush strokes; all are singing; for the KPBS special "Three Generations of the Blues" filmed at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach; artists' signature not clear.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_cheatham_photo-023_a.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Three jazz Women

Jeannie Cheatham, Melba Liston, and Clora Bryant seated and posing together for a photo; all facing the camera and smiling; other people can be seen in the background.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jeannie and family on a Jazz cruise

Jeannie Cheatham seated at a small table in a bar with her Mother (M'ma) and two sisters (Charlotte and Jo-Anne) while on the S.S. Norway during a Jazz cruise; Cheatham and her two sisters are wearing red dresses, her mother a white dress; other people can be seen behind them; they're laughing together and having a good time.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149
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Jimmy Cheatham

Photo of Jimmy Cheatham in a striped shirt and a blue hat smiling at the camera; mid-torso up.
Type: Image
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Collection Identifier: MS-0149