Vassar Clements
Vassar Clements | |
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Clements during a documentary interview in 2004, Live Oak, Florida Court | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Vassar Carlton Clements |
| Born | April 25, 1928 Kinard, FL, United States |
| Died | August 16, 2005 (aged 77) |
| Genres | Bluegrass, country |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Fiddle, viola, cello, double bass, mandolin, tenor banjo, guitar |
| Formerly of | Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys, Jim and Jesse, Earl Scruggs, John Hartford, Norman Blake, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Old & In the Way, Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, many others |
Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928 – August 16, 2005) was an 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. He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018.