Fats Heard

Eugene M. " Fats" Heard ( born October 10, 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio; † December 5, 1987 ) was an American jazz drummer.

Fats Heard first played piano and studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music, but switched to drums. At the beginning of his career in the late 1940s he played with Coleman Hawkins and Lionel Hampton. He became known then from 1952 as a member in the trio of pianist Erroll Garner through his interplay with the broom in recordings such as " Misty ". Mid-1950s, he initially left the music business to work, among other things as TV - seller. In later years he appeared in his hometown of Cleveland in the local Jazz Club Cotton Club, which he eventually bought and renamed the Modern Jazz Room. There also appeared Erroll Garner and trumpeter Jack Teagarden.