Hey Drummers! Check out the incredible Kenny Clarke, a drumming innovator and major contributor to the Be-bop style of jazz drumming. Do you have any recordings that he has played on? As the house drummer at Minton's Playhouse in the early 1940s, he participated in the after hours jams that led to the birth of Be-Bop, which in turn led to modern jazz. While in New York City, he played with the major innovators of the emerging bop style, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Curly Rus