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Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Audiovisual Collection Title of Collection: Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Audiovisual Collection Reference Code: US-MoKcUMS-MSA149 Repository: Marr Sound Archives UMKC Miller Nichols Library 800 E. 51st Street Kansas City, MO 64110 Creator: Cheatham, Jimmy and Jeannie Biographical History: Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby Blues Band played in the Kansas City blues style at its best. Jeannie Cheatham’s musical style was shaped in the church choir in Akron, Ohio. She began to study piano when she was five and went on to play in the school band. She and Jimmy Cheatham taught at the University of Wisconsin before moving to San Diego in 1978. Jimmy Cheatham retired as Professor Emeritus status in 1993 from the University of California at San Diego as Professor of Music. Jimmy was such a valuable resource, however, that UCSD officials hired him back immediately to continue in his role as Jazz Ensemble Director. In 1993, Jimmy and the UCSD Jazz Ensemble were selected by the San Diego Music Awards Committee for Best Jazz Ensemble. The Cheathams and the Sweet Baby Blues Band were voted as the Best Jazz Band in the area by the same group. Jimmy taught Improvisation and Black Music History and was the Director of UCSD’s Jazz Program during his active teaching years. Over the years, he played bass trombone with Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, Thad Jones and Ornette Coleman, and was Musical Director for Chico Hamilton. He arranged all the songs for the Sweet Baby Blues Band and co-wrote with his wife, Jeannie, most of their original songs. Jeannie performed with Big Mama Thornton off and on for ten years. She was featured with Thornton and Sippie Wallace in the award-winning PBS television special Three Generations of the Blues. In 1984, she toured with Cab Calloway. Prior to that, she was on the road accompanying blues greats such as T-Bone Walker, Joe Williams, Al Hibbler, Dinah Washington, Odetta and Jimmy Witherspoon. In 1990, she appeared with Marian McPartland on the popular radio series Piano Jazz. University of Missouri – Kansas City Marr Sound Archives The Cheathams toured Europe, performing at the Nice Festival and the North Sea Jazz Festival, among others. Down Beat magazine, reviewing North Sea, wrote, “And there was no better way to end the night than joining Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby Blues Band for a 3 a.m. sing along of 'Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On.' ” Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby Blues Band performed at the Long Beach Blues Festival and the Long Beach Jazz Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, Playboy Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Chicago Jazz Festival and the Fujitsu Concord Jazz Festival. They have also appeared in a jazz festival in New Zealand. They played to packed houses at Catalina’s and Birdland West in Los Angeles and Long Beach, respectively; the Horton Grand in San Diego, the Great American Music Hall and Kimball’s East in the San Francisco area, Jazz Alley in Seattle and the Four Queens in Las Vegas. The band delighted Johnny Carson when they appeared on The Tonight Show that closed the 1988 series. Jeannie was nominated in 1988 and 1993 by the W.C. Handy Blues Music Awards for Traditional Female Artist of the Year. In 1989, their album Back to the Neighborhood was nominated for a Handy Award. Her and Jimmy’s song “Blues Like Jay McShann” was nominated by the W.C. Handy Blues Music Award Committee for Song of the Year in 1992. The motto of the Sweet Baby Blues Band was “Nobody goes home feeling bad.” And nobody ever did. Date Range: 1976-2007 Extent: 9.75 Linear feet, includes 14 Open Reel Tapes, 2 Grooved Discs, 69 Cassettes, 4 DATs, 19 Pressed CDs, 9 CD-Rs, 8 DVD-Rs, 52 VHS Tapes, 10 U-matic Tapes, and 1 Betamax Tape. Scope and Content: The Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Collection contains audio documentation of live recordings, jam sessions, master and demo recordings, radio interviews; video documentation of television appearances and live concerts; as well as copies of various releases by Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham and the Sweet Baby Blues Band. Conditions of Access: The collection is open for research and educational use. The physical items in this collection are non- circulating. Digital copies of items in this collection are available upon request. Please refer to the Marr Sound Archives website for more information about requesting items. Language: English 2 Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Audiovisual Collection University of Missouri – Kansas City Marr Sound Archives Related Archival Material: The Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Collection located in Labudde Special Collections at the University of Missouri – Kansas City holds the paper materials in this collection. System of Arrangement: Series 1: Analog Videotapes Series 2: Audio Cassettes Series 3: Digital Audiotapes Series 4: Grooved Discs Series 5: Open Reel Audiotapes Series 6: Optical Discs Collection Inventory Series 1: Analog Videotapes Box Item Description File Date(s) Format ID 1 1 Big Bands at Disneyland; Cab Calloway & 1984 VHS Orchestra with Chris Calloway; Copy of published and copyrighted material 1 2 KPBS-TV San Diego; Three Generations of the 1984-09-06 VHS Blues; Part 1; TRT 57:42 min. 1 3 Copy of item 1 1984-09-06 VHS 1 4 Copy of item 1 1984-09-06 VHS 1 5 Copy of item 1 1984-09-06 VHS 1 6 Copy of item 1 1984-09-06 VHS 1 7 Copy of item 1 [degraded video quality] 1984-09-06 VHS 1 8 KPBS-TV San Diego; Three Generations of the 1984-09-06 VHS Blues; Part 2; TRT 11:00 min. 1 9 Master tapes of performance taped in Rochester. 1988-08-06 VHS Contains letter from Jim McGrath, City Sounds producer. WXXI 1 10 Sweet Baby Blues Band on Johnny Carson’s 1988-12-30 VHS Tonight Show 1 11 Copy of item 10 1988-12-30 VHS 1 12 Excerpted copy of item 10 1988-12-30 1 13 Jazz is Forever II. Segment: Jeannie and Jimmy 1989-07-19 VHS Cheatham. Note to Jeannie on cover. 1 14 Sunday Evening with Mavis Staples; Extract from 1989-08-09 Johnny Carson; Dave McKay and Lori Bell Sweet Baby Blues Band; Ray Crawford, Marshall Hawkins, Iron Man Harris 1 15 The Cheathams on the Today Show 1990-07-16 VHS 1 16 Copy of item 15 1990-07-16 VHS 3 Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Audiovisual Collection University of Missouri – Kansas City Marr Sound Archives 1 17 Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby 1991-01-05 VHS Blues Band; Club date; Tribute to Jimmy Noone (Master) 1 18 Copy of item 17 1991-01-05 VHS 1 19 Copy of item 17 1991-01-05 VHS 1 20 Excerpted copy of item 17 1991-01-05 VHS 1 21 Excerpted copy of item 17 1991-01-05 VHS 1 22 Excerpted copy of item 17 1991-01-05 VHS 1 23 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival; 1991-05-03 VHS Educational Workshops, 9 am at Carver Middle School Auditorium; Producer: Badi Murphy; videotaped by McVideo Productions 1 24 Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby 1991-11-04 VHS Blues Special (60 min.) 1 25 Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby 1991-11-04 VHS Blues Special (60 min.) 1 26 Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham and the Sweet Baby 1991-11-04 VHS Blues Special (60 min.) 1 27 GWC StarShowers ‘93, Jeannie and Jimmy 1993-07-22 VHS Cheatham 1 28 Cheathams, Hawkins and Harris; The Phoenix 1993-11-07 VHS 1 29 Cheathams, Hawkins and Harris; The Phoenix 1993-11-07 VHS 1 30 Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, Blues Lecture 1995-04-21 VHS Concert, Tokyo, Japan. 1 31 Sweet Baby Blues with Hank Crawford, Guest 1995-06 VHS artist alto sax, at the Ambassador; contains note to Jeannie 1 32 Copy of item 31 1995-06 VHS 2 33 Copy of item 31 1995-06 VHS 2 34 Cheatham’s (March 7, 1996, 5pm) 1996-03-07 VHS 2 35 Central Ave. Jazz Festival, 2nd Annual; LA Cityview 1997-07-26 VHS Channel 35 2 36 Hamilton College Jazz Archive; Jeannie and Jimmy 1998-02-12 VHS Cheatham interviewed by Monk Rowe San Diego, CA (1 hour, 55 min.). 2 37 Copy of item 36 1998-02-12 VHS 2 38 Salute to the Duke; Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham 1999-08-27 - VHS and the Baby Blues Band performing for the San 1999-08-28 Diego Symphony’s Celebration of Ellington’s 100th Birthday 2 39 Copy of item 38 1999-08-28 VHS 2 40 Copy of item 38 1999-08-28 VHS 2 41 Jeannie and Jimmy Cheatham, Marshall Hawkins, 1999-10-11 VHS John Harris, Paul Saltman; “Celebration of Life” at Revelle Plaza, UCSD 4 Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham Audiovisual Collection University of Missouri – Kansas City Marr Sound Archives 2 42 Copy of item 41 1999-10-11 VHS 2 43 Raw Video #1 (Long Version KSDS Anniversary) 2002 VHS 2 44 KSDS Anniversary 2002 VHS 2 45 KSDS Anniversary 2002 VHS 2 46 KSDS Anniversary 2002 VHS 3 47 Garcia media productions; DEMO tape featuring undated VHS music videos and slide show documentaries 3 48 Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham and the Sweet Baby undated VHS Blues Band (35 min.); outdoor summer concert 3 49 Jimmy and Jeannie Cheatham and the Sweet Baby undated VHS Blues Band (35 min.); outdoor summer concert 3 50 Sweet Baby Blues Band with Jimmy and Jeannie undated VHS Cheatham (57:35 min.) 3 51 Sweet Baby Blues Band with Jimmy and Jeannie undated VHS Cheatham (57:35 min.) 3 52 Jeannie Cheatham; What’s Wrong – What’s Right 1996 SVHS 3 53 Johnny Carson Show; Beauty and the 1989-07 Betamax Beast; Kennedy Center; Johnny Carson; The Cheathams Dancer 3 54 Omnibus 1980-12-28 U-matic 3 55 Three Generations of the Blues; Numbered on 1984-09-06 U-matic case #1, also 11449K63 3 56 Three Generations of the Blues; Numbered on 1984-09-06 U-matic case #2, also 11452K63 3 57 Three Generations of the Blues; Numbered on 1984-09-06 U-matic case #3, also 11451K63 3 58 J.
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