Kenny Clarke

American jazz drummer and vibraphonist (born January 9, 1914 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, died January 26, 1985 in Paris, France, aged 71)

Clarke was an early innovator of the bebop style of drumming and a founder member of the jazz group, The Modern Jazz Quartet. A regular sideman for in the mid-1950s, he lived and worked in Paris from 1956.

Clarke converted to Islam in the late 1940s and used the name Liaquat Ali Salaam on a release and possibly other sessions at the time.