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.
Member of
LaBudde Special Collections
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Bettye Miller with two men

Bettye Miller sitting between two unidentified men on a curved bench. Plants and flowers are behind them. All looking at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0093.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and a third man

Bettye Miller seated with Milt Abel at a table. An unidentified man is crouched down between them and looking directly at the camera. Other people can be partially seen moving around behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0097.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller, Milt Abel and two other men

Bettye Abel standing with Milt Abel (left) and an unidentified African American man (right) and an unidentified white man seated in front of them. All looking at the camera and laughing.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0098.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller with calla lilies

Bettye Miller standing next to an arrangement of calla lilies. Behind her are two large oxygen tanks and a cylinder with the words "Super Charged" on it. She's standing with her hands behind her back and facing the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0102.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller playing organ in a living room

Bettye Miller playing piano in a living room. The top of the piano includes candlesticks and a Jayhawk figurine. She's facing the camera and smiling.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0104.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller playing piano

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 piano and a large column is to the side of the piano.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0007.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Close up of Bettye Miller's hands

Close up of Bettye Miller's hands as she plays piano.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0008.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel performing together

Bettye Miller, piano, and Milt Abel, double bass, performing together. Abel is positioned behind Miller who is looking to the right of the photo. Very dark lighting.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0010.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller and Milt Abel

Bettye Miller playing piano with Milt Abel playing double bass behind her. Both are looking at the camera.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0022.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller playing piano

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 piano and a large column is to the side of the piano.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0028.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller with Milt Abel

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 the side of Miller and Abel. Abel is wearing a fringed leather vest.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0029.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, and Rod Padilla

Bettye Miller, piano, Milt Abel, double bass, and Rod Padilla, drums, performing in the lounge of the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Two rows of Promotional photos are on the wall behind them.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0030.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Milt Abel playing bass

Milt Abel playing double bass. There's a curtain behind him and he's facing to the right of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0031.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Milt Abel playing bass

Milt Abel playing double bass with a microphone in front of him. There's a curtain behind him and he's facing to the right of the photo.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0032.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067
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Bettye Miller, Milt Abel, Lois Robers, and George Nader

Bettye Miller, seated at a piano with Milt Abel holding his double bass. George Nader is leaning on the piano with Lois Roberts standing next to him. Miller and Abel are looking at the camera, Roberts and Nader are looking at Miller.
Type: Image
File: umkc_lsc_miller-abel_photo-0033.png
Collection Identifier: MS-0067