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Kansas Fields

American jazz drummer, born 5 December 1915 in Chapman, Kansas, USA, died 3 August 1995 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Moved with family to Chicago at age 14, began playing professionally with Eddie Mullens in 1933. Later worked with [a=Roy Eldridge] 1940-1941, [a=Mel Powell] 1942, [a=Cab Calloway] 1945, [a=Claude Hopkins] 1946, [a=Sidney Bechet] 1947, 1949, [a=Dizzy Gillespie], and others. After a European tour with [a=Mezz Mezzrow] in 1953, he stayed in Europe, returning to Chicago in 1964.