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Keg Purnell

American jazz drummer. Born : January 07, 1915 in Charleston, West Virginia. Died : June 25, 1965 in New York City, New York. Keg worked with King Oliver (1934-'35), with his own trio in the late 1930s, Thelonious Monk (1939), Benny Carter (1939-'40), Claude Hopkins (1941-'42), "Eddie Heywood Sextet" (1942-'52), Rex Stewart, Teddy Wilson, Willie "The Lion" Smith (1953), Snub Mosley.