GRADY TATE
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American jazz drummer and singer, born 14 January 1932 in Durham, North Carolina, USA. Died 8 October 2017 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Tate was one of the most versatile and in-demand jazz drummers of the '60s and '70s, appearing on hundreds of albums. His first major appointment was with the Quincy Jones Orchestra in '62. Among the artists Tate backed were saxophonists Stan Getz and Stanley Turrentine, composer-orchestrators Oliver Nelson and Lalo Schifrin, and organists Shirley Scott and Jimmy Smith.
Here he is with Smith and guitarist Kenny Burrell in 1965, playing "Greensleeves" from the Verve album Organ Grinder Swing. Listen for how Tate places the beat — right on top, leaning slightly forward — and keeps things buoyant and brisk, even within the churn of a polyrhythmic waltz. The precision and ebullient feeling in Tate's drumming made him a first call, in the studio and
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Vocal Jazz
1991
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