Clifford Jarvis
Clifford Jarvis (August 26, 1941 – November 26, 1999) was an American hard bop and free jazz drummer.
After studying at Berklee in the 1950s[1] he established himself in jazz between 1959 and 1966 by recording with Chet Baker, Randy Weston, Yusef Lateef, Freddie Hubbard, Barry Harris, Jackie McLean, and Elmo Hope, and playing with Grant Green and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
He worked and recorded with Sun Ra from 1962 to 1976. He also played and recorded with Pharoah Sanders, and recorded with Sonny Simmons, Alice Coltrane, Kenny Drew, Walter Davis, and Archie Shepp.
Clifford also recorded with organist John Patton on the Blue Note album That Certain Feeling.
During the 1980s, Jarvis moved to Britain, where he played with upcoming musicians such as Courtney Pine and worked in music education at Chats Palace Arts Centre in London among other places until his death. He was senior drum tutor at Pyramid Arts Development, Dalston, from 1984 to 1994.[2]
Discography
As leader
As sideman
With Chet Baker
- Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe (Riverside, 1959)
With Kenny Drew
- Ruby, My Dear (SteepleChase, 1977)
With Curtis Fuller
- Images of Curtis Fuller (Savoy, 1960)
With Barry Harris
- Newer Than New (Riverside, 1961)
- Chasin' the Bird (Riverside, 1962)
With Elmo Hope
- The Final Sessions (Evidence, 1966 [1996])
With Freddie Hubbard
- Open Sesame (Blue Note, 1960)
- Hub-Tones (Blue Note, 1962)
- Blue Spirits (Blue Note, 1966)
With Jackie McLean
- Right Now! (Blue Note, 1965)
With Archie Shepp
- Little Red Moon (Soul Note, 1985)
With Sonny Simmons
- Burning Spirits (Contemporary, 1971)
With Jukka Syrenius Band
- Jukka Syrenius Band "Memories of tomorrow" ( Finland "TCH-LP1" 1983)
With Sun Ra
- When Sun Comes Out (Saturn, 1963)
- Nothing Is… (ESP, 1966)
With John Patton
- That Certain Feeling (Blue Note, 1968)
With Randy Weston
- Live at the Five Spot (United Artists, 1959)
With Harry Beckett
- Les Jardins Du Casino [ITM, 1993)
