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Mickey Roker
American jazz drummer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Miami, Florida. In 1992, he replaced Connie Kay in the Modern Jazz Quartet.[1] He played with Jimmy Oliver, Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Divine, King James and Sam Reed before moving to New York in 1959.
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Roker died on May 22, 2017 from lung cancer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the age of 84.[2]