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 Roy Eldridge 1940-1941, Mel Powell 1942, Cab Calloway 1945, Claude Hopkins 1946, Sidney Bechet 1947, 1949, Dizzy Gillespie, and others. After a European tour with Mezz Mezzrow in 1953, he stayed in Europe, returning to Chicago in 1964.