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Shake Keane

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines • 1927-05-30 – 1997-11-11

Shake Keane is credited on 224 releases across 64 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1961–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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224

Pressings credited

64

Albums

7

Decades active

5

In collections

Biography

Ellsworth McGranahan "Shake" Keane (30 May 1927 – 11 November 1997) was a Vincentian jazz musician and poet. He is best known today for his role as a jazz trumpeter, principally his work as a member of the ground-breaking Joe Harriott Quintet (1959–65).

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Credited work

224 releases · 64 albums · active 1961–2025

  • Performance · 363
  • Other credits · 27

Studios: Lansdowne Studios · The Platinum Factory · Lindström Studios, Cologne · Rhenus Studio

Discography

Records they worked on — most-collected first.

Frequent collaborators

  • Various
  • Joe Harriott Quintet
  • The Joe Harriott Quintet
  • Jonny Teupen
  • Becket
  • Michael Garrick Quintet
  • Dannie Abse
  • The Kenny Clarke Francy Boland Big Band

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