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Kenneth Clarke Spearman (January 9, 1914 – January 26, 1985), known professionally as Kenny Clarke and nicknamed Klook, was an American jazz drummer and bandleader.
Kenny Clarke was an American drummer who was a major exponent of the modern jazz movement of the 1940s. Clarke’s music studies in high school embraced vibraphone, piano, trombone, and theory, but it was as a drummer that he began his professional career in 1930.
Jan 9, 2014 · With those twin innovations, Kenny Clarke invented modern jazz drumming. His fleet new style had begun to evolve in the late 1930s, alongside other new developments that would blossom into...
Kenny Clarke, known among musicians as "Klook" for one of his characteristic drum licks, is truly a jazz pioneer. He was a leader in the rhythmic advances that signaled the beginning of the modern jazz era, his drum style becoming the sound of bebop and influencing drummers such as Art Blakey and Max Roach .
Jan 9, 2014 · Faced with a rapid tempo one night, Kenny Clarke devised a new way to play the beat on the ride cymbal. His "spang-a-lang," and the rhythmic ideas it generated, wound up...
May 18, 2018 · Kenny Clarke [1] >Kenny Clarke [2] (1914–1985) produced experimental musical ideas that >transformed the art of jazz drumming. The founder of the bebop drum style, >Clarke took part in several major movements in modern American music.
Jan 23, 2014 · Kenny Clarke, Inventor Of Modern Jazz Drumming, At 100 : Fresh Air The drummer known as "Klook" was a founder of bebop — and a man endlessly open to possibilities.
