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Tate, Grady

LC control no.n 81095918
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Personal name headingTate, Grady
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Variant(s)Tate, Gradley
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1932-01-14
Death date2017-10-08
Place of birthDurham (N.C.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityJazz
AffiliationHoward University
Profession or occupationDrummer Singer
Music teachers
Found inGershwin, G. Zoot Sims and the Gershwin brothers. [SR] 1975
New Grove dict. of jazz (Tate, Grady; b. Jan. 14, 1932, Durham, NC; drummer and singer)
Info. from 678 field, converted 2012-11-06 (jazz drummer)
Washington post WWW site, viewed Oct. 12, 2017 (Grady Tate, a jazz musician who was nominated for Grammy Awards as a singer but was best known as a versatile drummer who helped propel the "soul-jazz" style of the 1960s and who appeared on hundreds of albums, died Oct. 8 [2017] at his home in New York; he was 85; Grady Bernard Tate was born Jan. 14, 1932, in Durham, N.C.; taught jazz singing and drumming at Howard University from 1989 to 2009)
Earl "Fatha" Hines, 1993: container (Gradley Tate, drums)