Monday, May 22, 2017

R.I.P.: Mickey Roker (1932-2017)

R.I.P.: Mickey Roker (March 9, 1932 - May 22, 2017)

Fabulous drummer. Saw him live with Dizzy and later with the Pablo All-Stars.
Roker performs in some of my favorite albums by Duke Pearson (How Insensitive with Andy Bey, Bebeto Castilho, Dorio Ferreira, Airto & Flora, the Christmas project Merry Ole Soul, and specially It Could Only Happen With You, on which he performs alongside Hermeto Pascoal and Flora Purim), Donald Byrd (Electric Byrd - with Airto and Hermeto - and Kofi, with Airto and Dom Um Romao), Milt Jackson (Olinga), Herbie Hancock (Speak Like A Child), Astrud Gilberto (Now).

Plus many many sessions with Lee Morgan, Sonny Rollins, Bob Cranshaw, my friends Randy Brecker and Mike Longo, Stanley Turrentine, Shirley Scott, Horace Silver, my late friends Art Farmer and Joe Shepley, Blue Mitchell, Clark Terry, Harold Vick, Horace Silver, Frank Foster, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Bobby Hutcherson, Herbie Mann, Cedar Walton, Albert Dailey, Roy Ayers, Zoot Sims, Mary Lou Williams, Blue Mitchell, Benny Carter, Jon Faddis, Hank Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Joe Pass, Ray Brown, Ray Bryant, J.J. Johnson, Al Grey, Joe Williams, Hank Jones, Dusko Goykovich, Nat Adderley, Hank Jones, Gigi Gryce, Gene Ammons, Jim Hall, McCoy Tyner, Ben Webster...The list goes on and on.

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