KENNY CLARKE

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Kenny Clarke (born Kenneth Clarke Spearman, later aka, Liaqat Ali Salaam, on January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France) was a jazz drummer and an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming. As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940's, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of modern jazz. He is credited with creating the modern role of the ride cymbal as the primary timekeeper. Before, drummers kept time on the snare drum ("digging coal", Clarke called it) with heavy support from the bass drum. With Clarke time was played on the cymbal and the bass and snare were used more for punctuation. For this, "every drummer" Ed Thigpen said, "owes him a debt of gratitude." Clarke was nicknamed "Klook" or "Klook-mop" for the style he innovated.

Clarke was a founder member of the Modern
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KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke
Bop 1954
KENNY CLARKE Volume 2 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Volume 2
Bop 1955
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke & Ernie Wilkins
Bop 1955
KENNY CLARKE Bohemia After Dark album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Bohemia After Dark
Bop 1955
KENNY CLARKE Plays Andre Hodeir album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Plays Andre Hodeir
Bop 1956
KENNY CLARKE Jazz International album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz International
Bop 1956
KENNY CLARKE Klook's Clique album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Klook's Clique
Bop 1956
KENNY CLARKE Jazz Olympus Series album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Olympus Series
Bop 1958
KENNY CLARKE The Golden Eight album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Golden Eight
Bop 1961
KENNY CLARKE Jazz Is Universal album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Is Universal
Big Band 1962
KENNY CLARKE Clarke-Boland Big Band : Handle With Care album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke-Boland Big Band : Handle With Care
Big Band 1963
KENNY CLARKE Now Hear Our Meanin' album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Now Hear Our Meanin'
Big Band 1965
KENNY CLARKE Sax No End album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sax No End
Big Band 1967
KENNY CLARKE Clarke Boland Big Band : Out Of The Folk Bag album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke Boland Big Band : Out Of The Folk Bag
Big Band 1967
KENNY CLARKE Music For The Small Hours album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Music For The Small Hours
Big Band 1967
KENNY CLARKE All Smiles (aka Let's Face The Music) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
All Smiles (aka Let's Face The Music)
Big Band 1968
KENNY CLARKE The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band : Latin Kaleidoscope album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band : Latin Kaleidoscope
Big Band 1968
KENNY CLARKE Fire, Heat, Soul & Guts! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fire, Heat, Soul & Guts!
Big Band 1968
KENNY CLARKE Clarke-Boland Big Band ‎: Jazz Convention Volume 1 (aka Open Door) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke-Boland Big Band ‎: Jazz Convention Volume 1 (aka Open Door)
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1968
KENNY CLARKE Clarke-Boland Big Band ‎: Jazz Convention Volume II album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke-Boland Big Band ‎: Jazz Convention Volume II
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1968
KENNY CLARKE Jazz Convention Volume III album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz Convention Volume III
Jazz Related Soundtracks 1968
KENNY CLARKE More Smiles album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
More Smiles
Big Band 1969
KENNY CLARKE Faces album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Faces
Big Band 1969
KENNY CLARKE Off Limits album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Off Limits
Big Band 1971
KENNY CLARKE Doing Time album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Doing Time
Big Band 1971
KENNY CLARKE All Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
All Blues
Big Band 1971
KENNY CLARKE At Her Majesty's Pleasure... album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
At Her Majesty's Pleasure...
Big Band 1971
KENNY CLARKE Jazz A Confronto 20 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jazz A Confronto 20
Bop 1975
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke Meets The Detroit Jazzmen album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke Meets The Detroit Jazzmen
Bop 1977
KENNY CLARKE Pieces of Time album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pieces of Time
Bop 1984
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke 1964 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke 1964
Bop 1992
KENNY CLARKE Clarke-Boland Big Band : Historically Speaking album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke-Boland Big Band : Historically Speaking
Big Band 1993
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band : In The Movies- More Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band : In The Movies- More Jazz
Big Band 1997
KENNY CLARKE More album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
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Big Band 2002
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland And Company : The Golden Eight Encore! album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland And Company : The Golden Eight Encore!
Bop 2010

KENNY CLARKE EPs & splits

KENNY CLARKE Caravan album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Caravan
Big Band 1959
KENNY CLARKE Americans In Europe, Vol.1 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Americans In Europe, Vol.1
Hard Bop 1963

KENNY CLARKE live albums

KENNY CLARKE Clarke-Boland-Sextett : Marcel Marceau Präsentiert Swing Im Bahnhof album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke-Boland-Sextett : Marcel Marceau Präsentiert Swing Im Bahnhof
Bop 1965
KENNY CLARKE Live at Ronnie's Album 1 - Volcano album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Ronnie's Album 1 - Volcano
Big Band 1969
KENNY CLARKE Live at Ronnie's Album 2: Rue Chaptal album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live at Ronnie's Album 2: Rue Chaptal
Big Band 1969
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Kenny "To Day"
Bop 1980
KENNY CLARKE I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 37 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
I Giganti Del Jazz Vol. 37
Latin Jazz 1981
KENNY CLARKE Live in Paris 1980/81 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Live in Paris 1980/81
Bop 1986
KENNY CLARKE En Concert Avec Europe 1 - TNP 29 Octobre • 1969 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
En Concert Avec Europe 1 - TNP 29 Octobre • 1969
Big Band 1992
KENNY CLARKE Clarke Boland Big Band : TNP - Oct. 29th, 1969 (Part 2) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Clarke Boland Big Band : TNP - Oct. 29th, 1969 (Part 2)
Big Band 2002

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KENNY CLARKE Telefunken Blues (aka Kenny Clarke ‎– Volume 1) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Telefunken Blues (aka Kenny Clarke ‎– Volume 1)
Bop 1955
KENNY CLARKE The Trio album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Trio
Bop 1956
KENNY CLARKE The Paris Bebop Sessions (With  James Moody) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Paris Bebop Sessions (With James Moody)
Bop 1969
KENNY CLARKE The Best Of The Clarke-Boland Big Band album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Best Of The Clarke-Boland Big Band
Big Band 1974
KENNY CLARKE Smiles album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Smiles
Big Band 1976
KENNY CLARKE Blowing The Cobwebs Out album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Blowing The Cobwebs Out
Big Band 1994
KENNY CLARKE Americans in Europe album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Americans in Europe
Bop 1994
KENNY CLARKE Two Originals: All Blues/Sax No End album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Two Originals: All Blues/Sax No End
Big Band 1994
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Sextet: Calypso Blues album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Sextet: Calypso Blues
Bop 1997
KENNY CLARKE Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland, The Mitchell-Ruff Duo ‎: Jazz Is Universal / After This Message album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Kenny Clarke, Francy Boland, The Mitchell-Ruff Duo ‎: Jazz Is Universal / After This Message
Bop 1999
KENNY CLARKE Our Kinda Strauss album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Our Kinda Strauss
Bop 1999
KENNY CLARKE The Quintessence . Stockholm - New York Paris 1938 - 1949 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Quintessence . Stockholm - New York Paris 1938 - 1949
Bop 2000
KENNY CLARKE The Chronological Classics: Kenny Clarke 1946-1948 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Chronological Classics: Kenny Clarke 1946-1948
Bop 2001
KENNY CLARKE The Chronological Classics: Kenny Clarke 1948-1950 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Chronological Classics: Kenny Clarke 1948-1950
Bop 2002
KENNY CLARKE Klook's The Man album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Klook's The Man
Bop 2007

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