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Fact #55414

When:

09011914

Short story:

Kenneth Spearman Clarke is born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He will find success as jazz drummer Kenny Clarke, nicknamed 'Klook'. Clarke is regarded as having been a major influence on the development of bebop drumming and in a career lasting five decades he provided the pulse for Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Benny Carter, to name but a few.