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Vassar Clements

Kinard, United States • 1928-04-25 – 2005-08-16

Vassar Clements is credited on 660 releases across 181 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1960–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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660

Pressings credited

181

Albums

7

Decades active

248

In collections

Biography

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.

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660 releases · 181 albums · active 1960–2025

  • Other credits · 1,157
  • Performance · 517
  • Production · 6
  • Engineering · 5

Studios: Quadrafonic Sound Studios · Muscle Shoals Sound Studios · Bradley's Barn · Moss Rose Studio

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