Hey Drummers! Are you familiar with Kenny Clarke and his drumming? He was a major innovator of the Be-bop style of jazz drumming. Do you have any recordings that he has played on? As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz. While in New York City, he played with the major innovators of the emerging bop style, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell

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