Mickey Roker

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Mickey Roker was an American jazz drummer renowned for his work with leading hard bop and post-bop musicians, including long associations with Dizzy Gillespie and the Modern Jazz Quartet.

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instanceOf human
jazz drummer
musician
activeYearsEnd 2010s
activeYearsStart 1950s
associatedAct Dizzy Gillespie NERFINISHED
Duke Pearson NERFINISHED
Herbie Hancock NERFINISHED
Horace Silver NERFINISHED
Jimmy Heath NERFINISHED
Lee Morgan NERFINISHED
Milt Jackson NERFINISHED
Modern Jazz Quartet NERFINISHED
Sonny Rollins NERFINISHED
awardReceived Philadelphia Jazz Award NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1932-09-03
dateOfDeath 2017-05-22
ethnicGroup Black Americans
surface form: African American
fieldOfWork performance of jazz drumming
fullName Granville William Roker NERFINISHED
genre hard bop NERFINISHED
jazz
post-bop
givenName Granville NERFINISHED
influencedBy Art Blakey NERFINISHED
Max Roach NERFINISHED
instrument drum set
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement hard bop
post-bop
nickname Mickey Roker NERFINISHED
notableFor Philadelphia jazz scene mainstay
work with Dizzy Gillespie
work with the Modern Jazz Quartet
notableWork member of the Modern Jazz Quartet in the 1990s
occupation drummer
jazz musician
placeOfBirth Miami, Florida, United States NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED
recordLabel Blue Note Records
Impulse! Records NERFINISHED
Verve Records
residence Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States NERFINISHED
sexOrGender male

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