OLIVETTE MILLER AND WURLITZER GG STARKE AT CAFE SOCIETY

Harpist Olivette Miller at New York's Café Society, Downtown with (l-r) Cliff Jackson, Gene Sedric and Josh White circa March 1947.

Photographer William P. Gottlieb (1917-) for Down Beat Magazine.

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Olivette Miller was the daughter of vaudevillian Flournoy Eakins Miller (1887-1971), and niece of producer Irvin Colloden Miller (1884-1975). She was married to dancer Freddy Gordon in the 1940s, divorced then married comedian Bert Gibson in the 1950s, and was called Olivette Miller Darby in the 1970s, but later went by Olivette Miller-Briggs, when she was married to tap dancer Bunny Briggs (b. 1922). It is sourced that Olivette passed away in Inglewood, CA. sometime in January, 2010.

Coalition of Harpists of African Descent