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Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer.
May 22, 2017 · Mickey Roker was born into extreme poverty in Miami to Granville and Willie Mae Roker. After his mother died, 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.
May 24, 2017 · MICKEY ROKER (1932 - 2017) Philadelphia native, Mickey Roker lost his battle with cancer and diabetes at the age of 84. Granville William Roker, Jr. was born in Miami, Florida on September 3, 1932. The hard driving drummer with a heart of gold is now in Jazz Heaven.
May 23, 2017 · Mickey Roker, a soulful and deeply propulsive drummer who carried a torch for literate hard-bop in the decades after its commercial peak, died on Monday in Philadelphia, where he was a local jazz institution. He was 84.
Jul 26, 2021 · Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues. by Victor L. Schermer January 18, 2010. Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz.
Sep 27, 2017 · Known for his propelling swing, Roker performed with top jazz artists throughout a career spanning six decades. A drummer sprung from swing and bop, Roker had an irresistible groove, sensitive dynamics, unshakable time, and tasteful kit artistry that earned him a long and impressive discography.
Raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Roker played drums with R&B bands but was attracted to jazz. He worked briefly with such visiting and local jazzmen as Jimmy Heath, Lee Morgan and McCoy Tyner and it was not until the end of the 50s that he went to New York.
Jan 18, 2010 · Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy Gillespie, the Modern Jazz Quartet, Lee Morgan, and many of the other signature groups of modern jazz. Yet he has always maintained his Philadelphia roots, and is and has been a regular at Ortlieb's Jazzhaus in that city for many years.
May 31, 1995 · Drummer Mickey Roker talks about the importance of blues music, playing with Dizzy Gillespie and Nancy Wilson, and offers a succinct definition of black musi...
Feb 12, 2016 · This album was also my introduction to Mickey Roker whose playing on Track 1, Side A — Thanks to Trane — was frightening. The tempo seemed impossibly fast. How could I, an aspiring professional drummer, ever hope to play that well?
