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Harry Dial

Birmingham, United States

Harry Dial is a musician from Birmingham, United States. They also recorded with Fats Waller and His Rhythm.

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American jazz drummer. Drummer Harry Dial (1907-1987) was a professional musician by the age of 14. Playing gigs at the Manchester Café, the Manhattan Café and the Almac Hotel while he was still in school, he eventually joined Fate Marable on the steamer J.S. and Dial was soon playing all over St. Louis with Charles Creath, Dewey Jackson, Norman Mason and Jimmy Powell. In 1928, he moved to Chicago and in 1933 went on to New York. Dial worked with Louis Armstrong and was a member of Fats Waller’s Rhythm from 1934 to 1935.
Born: February 17, 1907 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Died: January 25, 1987 in New York City, New York.

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