Vassar Clements
Bluegrass, Composer
1928 – 2005
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Who was Vassar Clements?
Vassar Clements was a Grammy Award- winning American jazz, swing, and bluegrass fiddler. Clements has been dubbed the Father of Hillbilly Jazz, an improvisational style that blends and borrows from swing, hot jazz, and bluegrass along with roots also in country and other musical traditions.
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- Born
- Apr 25, 1928
Kinard - Also known as
- Clements, Vassar
- Vassar Carlton Clements
- Superbow
- Isaac Stern of the Fiddle
- The Miles Davis of Bluegrass
- Spouses
- Millie Clements
(1964 - 1998) - Jean Clements
- Millie Clements
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- South Carolina
- Died
- Aug 16, 2005
Goodlettsville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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