Mickey Roker

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1932-03-09

Active to

2017-05-22

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

73

Total plays

275

Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. Roker was born into extreme poverty in Miami to Granville (Sr.) and Willie Mae Roker. After his mother died (his father never lived with them), when he was only ten, he was taken by his grandmother to live in Philadelphia with his uncle Walter, who gave him his first drum kit and communicated his love of jazz to his nephew. He also introduced the young Roker to the jazz scene in Philadelphia, where

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Molecular subclasses of high-grade glioma predict prognosis, delineate a pattern of disease progression, and resemble stages in neurogenesis

   · 2006 · cited 2,596x

2. THE IMPACT OF CONFOUNDER SELECTION CRITERIA ON EFFECT ESTIMATION

   · 1989 · cited 2,123x

3. Flexural rigidity of microtubules and actin filaments measured from thermal fluctuations in shape.

   · 1993 · cited 1,647x

4. Understanding and Addressing Sources of Anxiety Among Health Care Professionals During the COVID-19 Pandemic

   · 2020 · cited 1,443x

5. Estimation of Error Rates in Discriminant Analysis

   · 1968 · cited 1,200x

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