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Granville William "Mickey" Roker (September 3, 1932 – May 22, 2017) was an American jazz drummer.




Biography


Roker was born into extreme poverty in Miami to Granville (Sr.) and Willie Mae Roker. After his mother died (his father never lived with them), 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. He also introduced the young Roker to the jazz scene in Philadelphia, where drummer Philly Joe Jones became Roker's idol.
In the early 1950s, he began to gain recognition as a sensitive yet hard-driving big-band drummer. He was especially favored by Dizzy Gillespie, who remarked of him that "once he sets a groove, whatever it is, you can go to Paris and come back and it's right there. You never have to worry about it." Roker was soon in demand for his supportive skills in both big-band and small-group settings.
While in Philadelphia he played with Jimmy Oliver, Jimmy Heath, Jimmy Divine, King James and Sam Reed before moving to New York in 1959, where his first gigs were with Gigi Gryce, Ray Bryant, Joe Williams, Junior Mance, Nancy Wilson and the Duke Pearson big band.
In 1965 Mickey joined Art Farmer and Benny Golson's revamped group, the "New York Jazz Sextet".
In 1992, he replaced Connie Kay in the Modern Jazz Quartet.
He recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Duke Pearson, Tommy Flanagan, Ella Fitzgerald, Zoot Sims, Horace Silver, Junior Mance, Sarah Vaughan, Milt Jackson, Herbie Hancock, Phil Woods, Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown, Bucky Pizzarelli, Stanley Turrentine, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Hank Jones, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Locke, and many other jazz musicians.
Roker was still active on the Philadelphia music scene during the 21st century. He died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the age of 84, of natural causes, though he had been suffering from diabetes, lung cancer, and other health issues.




Discography






= As sideman

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With Nat Adderley

Little Big Horn (Riverside, 1963)
With Gene Ammons

Got My Own (Prestige, 1972)
Big Bad Jug (Prestige, 1972)
Together Again for the Last Time (Prestige, 1973 [1976]) - with Sonny Stitt
With Roy Ayers

Daddy Bug (Atlantic, 1969)
With Joshua Breakstone

Let's Call This Monk! (Double-Time, 1997)
With Randy Brecker

Score (Solid State, 1969)
With Ray Brown

Red Hot Ray Brown Trio (Concord, 1987)
With Ray Bryant

Con Alma (Columbia, 1960)
Dancing the Big Twist (Columbia, 1961)
With Jon Faddis

Youngblood (Pablo, 1976)
With Art Farmer

The Time and the Place: The Lost Concert (Mosaic, 1966 [2007])
The Time and the Place (Columbia, 1967)
The Art Farmer Quintet Plays the Great Jazz Hits (Columbia, 1967)
With Frank Foster

Manhattan Fever (Blue Note, 1968)
With Dizzy Gillespie

Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (Pablo, 1974)
Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (Pablo, 1975) with Machito
The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (Pablo, 1975)
Bahiana (Pablo, 1975)
Carter, Gillespie Inc. (Pablo, 1976) with Benny Carter
Dizzy's Party (Pablo, 1976)
With Gigi Gryce

Saying Somethin'! (New Jazz, 1960)
The Hap'nin's (New Jazz, 1960)
The Rat Race Blues (New Jazz, 1960)
Doin' the Gigi (Uptown, 2011)
With Herbie Hancock

Speak Like a Child (Blue Note, 1968)
With Gene Harris

The Gene Harris Trio Plus One (Concord, 1984)
With Bobby Hutcherson

San Francisco (Blue Note, 1970)
With Milt Jackson

Born Free (Limelight, 1966)
Milt Jackson and the Hip String Quartet (Verve, 1968)
Olinga (CTI, 1974)
The Milt Jackson Big 4 (Pablo, 1975)
With Willis Jackson

Really Groovin' (Prestige, 1961)
In My Solitude (Moodsville, 1961)
With Hank Jones

Groovin' High (Muse, 1978)
With Sam Jones

Something New (Interplay, 1979)
With Irene Kral

Better Than Anything (Äva, 1963)
With Charles Kynard

The Soul Brotherhood (Prestige, 1969)
With Mike Longo

Funkia (Groove Merchant, 1973)
Talk with the Spirits (Pablo, 1976)
With Junior Mance

Junior's Blues (Riverside, 1962)
Happy Time (Jazzland, 1962)
Monk (Live) (Chiaroscuro, 2003)
With Herbie Mann

Stone Flute (Embryo, 1969 [1970])
With Blue Mitchell

Boss Horn (Blue Note, 1966)
With the Modern Jazz Quartet

MJQ & Friends: A 40th Anniversary Celebration (Atlantic, 1994)
With Lee Morgan

Standards (Blue Note, 1967)
Live at the Lighthouse (Blue Note, 1970)
Sonic Boom (Blue Note, released 1979)
With The N.Y. Hardbop Quintet

Rokermotion (TCB, 1996)
With Joe Pass

Quadrant (Pablo, 1977)
With Duke Pearson

Wahoo! (1964)
Honeybuns (1965)
Prairie Dog (1966)
Sweet Honey Bee (Blue Note, 1966)
Introducing Duke Pearson's Big Band (Blue Note, 1967)
The Phantom (Blue Note, 1968)
Now Hear This (Blue Note, 1968)
How Insensitive (Blue Note, 1969)
It Could Only Happen with You (1970)
With Oscar Peterson and Stephane Grappelli

Skol (Pablo, 1979)
With Billie Poole

Confessin' the Blues (Riverside, 1963)
With Sonny Rollins

There Will Never Be Another You (album) (Impulse!, 1965)
Sonny Rollins on Impulse! (Impulse!, 1965)
With Shirley Scott

Soul Duo (Impulse!, 1966) with Clark Terry
Oasis (Muse, 1989)
Great Scott! (Muse, 1991)
Blues Everywhere (Candid, 1991)
Skylark (Candid, 1991)
With Horace Silver

All (Blue Note, 1972)
In Pursuit of the 27th Man (Blue Note, 1973)
With Buddy Terry

Awareness (Mainstream, 1971)
With Stanley Turrentine

Rough 'n' Tumble (Blue Note, 1966)
The Spoiler (Blue Note, 1966)
With McCoy Tyner

Live at Newport (Impulse!, 1963)
With Harold Vick

The Caribbean Suite (RCA Victor, 1966)
Commitment (Muse, 1967 [1974])
With Mary Lou Williams

Zoning (Mary Records, 1974 - later reissued by Smithsonian Folkways, with expansion)
Free Spirits (SteepleChase, 1975)
With Cedar Walton

The Electric Boogaloo Song (Prestige, 1969)
With Joe Williams

At Newport '63 (RCA Victor, 1963)
With Reuben Wilson

The Cisco Kid (Groove Merchant, 1973)
With Phil Woods

Rights of Swing (Candid, 1961)




References






External links



Mickey Roker at AllMusic
Mickey Roker discography at Discogs
Mickey Roker at IMDb
Mickey Roker at Drummerworld

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