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Lex Humphries

American jazz drummer and percussionist, born August 22, 1936 in New York City, New York, died July 11, 1994 in the same city. Played with Chet Baker (1956), Lester Young (1956), Dizzy Gillespie (1958), Art Farmer (1959-1960), John Coltrane (1959), Donald Byrd (1959-1960), Duke Pearson(1959-1960), Wes Montgomery (1961), McCoy Tyner (1963), Yusef Lateef (1960-1963) and others. Joined Sun Ra in 1965, left in 1981 to work freelance in Philadelphia.