Mickey Roker
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz drummer (1932–2017)
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1932-03-09
- Active to
- 2017-05-22
hard bopjazzpost-bop
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Miami
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Occupation
- musician
- Genre
- bebop
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Image
- Mickey Roker & Dizzy Gillespie 2.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1932-09-03
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- Mickey Roker
- date of death
- 2017-05-22
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- lung cancer
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