| Intro | American jazz drummer |
| Is | Jazz musician |
| From | United States of America |
| Type | Music |
| Gender | male |
| Birth | 26 May 1931, Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, U.S.A. |
| Age: | 89 years |
Frank Gant (born May 26, 1931 in Detroit, Michigan) is a jazz drummer.
Gant recorded with Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, and extensively with Yusef Lateef in the late 1950s and then Red Garland before becoming a member of Ahmad Jamal’s trio (1966-1976).
His first gigs were with Billy Mitchell and Pepper Adams, and after working with Little John Wilson and his Merry Men at the Madison Ballroom, including four days backing Billie Holiday, he went on to join Alvin Jackson’s house band at the Blue Bird.
As the house drummer at Detroit’s Club 12, with Jackson’s band, he backed Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse in September 1959.
In the 1970s, he accompanied Jamil Nasser and Harold Mabern as the rhythm section for workshops run by Cobi Narita.
Discography
- 1955: Byrd Jazz – Donald Byrd
- 1958: Breakin’ It Up – Barry Harris
- 1964: Proof Positive – J. J. Johnson (Impulse!)
- 1979: Monty Alexander in Tokyo – Monty Alexander with Gant and Andy Simpkins
- 1986: Moonray – Adam Makowicz with Gant, Jamil Nasser, Deborah Henson-Conant and Ed Saindon
- 1958: Sonny Stitt
- 1960: Burnin’ (recorded 1958)
- 1958: Lateef at Cranbrook
- 1959: The Dreamer
- 1959: The Fabric of Jazz
- 1960: Cry! – Tender
- 1962: The Nearness of You
- 1962: Solar
- 1966: Heat Wave
- 1968: Tranquility
- 1970: The Awakening
- 1971: Freeflight
- 1971: Outertimeinnerspace
- 1976: Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry’s