Mickey Roker
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American jazz drummer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Granville William "Mickey" Roker was an American jazz drummer. Biography 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. He also introduced the young Roker to the jazz scene in Philadelphia, where drummer Philly Joe Jones became Roker's idol.
