Richie Pratt
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Richie Pratt (born Richard Dean Tyree; March 11, 1943 – February 12, 2015) was an American jazz drummer. He embarked upon a career as a professional musician on the New York scene in the early 1970s, it was as much due to an unanticipated sporting injury as anything else. Pratt was born into a musical family (his mother was a church pianist and a brother is saxophonist Chris Burnett) and grew up in the Kansas City metro city of Olathe, Kansas. He first studied music via the piano, as well as attended various music camps as a youth prior to attending college as a music major at the University of Kansas.
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Birth name | Richard Dean Tyree |
Born | (1943-03-11)March 11, 1943 Olathe, Kansas, United States |
Died | February 12, 2015(2015-02-12) (aged 71) Leavenworth, Kansas, United States |
Genres | Jazz, Broadway, bebop, hard bop |
Occupation(s) | Musician, bandleader, composer, sideman |
Instrument(s) | Drums, Percussion, Piano |
Years active | 1961–2011 |
Labels | Artists Recording Collective Enja CBS Timeless Arista Hip-O Atlantic Columbia A&M Records SONY RCA |
Website | RichiePratt.net |
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