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Kenny Clarke
Real Name: Kenneth Clarke Spearman
American jazz drummer
Born January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France (aged 71)
He was an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming and a founder member of the jazz group, The Modern Jazz Quartet. A regular sideman for Savoy Records in the mid-1950s, he lived and worked in Paris from 1956.
