Larance Marable

Larance Marable (May 21, 1929 - July 4, 2012) was a West Coast jazz hard bop drummer born in Los Angeles, California, probably best known for his work with Charlie Haden in his Quartet West.^[1] However, Marable also had a strong career first as a bop musician in the 1950s working with the likes of Dexter Gordon and Charlie Parker, among others. In the 1960s he started to venture into the cool jazz idiom with musicians like Zoot Sims, George Shearing and Chet Baker, although he worked with Baker as early as 1956 on the album "Chet Baker Sings".^[2]

Earlier in his career, he was known as Lawrence Marable.^[3]

Larance was a relative of Mississippi riverboat bandleader Fate Marable.^[4]

Discography

With Chet Baker

• Chet Baker Big Band (Pacific Jazz, 1956)
• Playboys (Pacific Jazz, 1956)

With Kenny Drew

• Kenny Drew and His Progressive Piano (Norgran, 1953–54)
• Talkin' & Walkin' (Jazz:West, 1955)

With Teddy Edwards

• Back to Avalon (Contemporary, 1960 [1995])

With Charlie Haden

• In Angel City (Verve, 1988)
• Haunted Heart (Verve, 1991)
• Always Say Goodbye (Verve, 1993)
• Now Is the Hour (Verve, 1995)

With Hampton Hawes

• Piano East, Piano West (Prestige, 1952)

With Milt Jackson

• Ballads & Blues (Atlantic, 1956)

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