Kenny Clarke

Kenny Clarke

Kenneth Clarke Spearman

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In the collection

6 records
The Magnificent Charlie Parker Charlie Parker, 1955 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 10 Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Don Byas, 1980 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 20 Stan Getz, Donald Byrd, Bobby Jaspar, Kenny Clarke, 1981 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 37 Kenny Clarke / Joe Harris / Sahib Shihab / Francy Boland / The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Quintet, 1981 I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 17 Big Joe Turner, Buck Clayton, Stuff Smith, Memphis Slim I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 24 Erroll Garner / Coleman Hawkins

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Traditional 3 records together Pierre Michelot 3 records together Coleman Hawkins 2 records together Stan Getz 2 records together Buck Clayton 2 records together Stan Getz Quintet 2 records together Stan Getz Quartet 2 records together Jimmy Gourley 2 records together James F. Hanley 2 records together Cole Porter 2 records together Don Byas 1 record together Joe Harris 1 record together

About

American jazz drummer and vibraphonist (born January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France, aged 71)

Clarke was an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming and a founder member of the jazz group, . A regular sideman for in the mid-1950s, he lived and worked in Paris from 1956.

Clarke converted to Islam in the late 1940s and used the name Liaquat Ali Salaam on and possibly other sessions at the time. However, from the 1950s onward, he returned to being billed as “Kenny Clarke” professionally, including on his 1950s Savoy Records albums, in the during the 1960s, and up through his final albums in the 1980s, such as .