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Vassar Clements
1928 – August 16, 2005
American jazz, swing, and bluegrass Fiddler (1928–2005)
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Vassar Carlton Clements 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.
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- Anniversary · August 16
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