Frank Gant
Frank Gant is a jazz drummer.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Gant recorded with Donald Byrd, Sonny Stitt, and extensively with Yusef Lateef in the late 1950s and then Red Garland before becoming a member of Ahmad Jamal's trio.
His first gigs were with Billy Mitchell and Pepper Adams, and after working with Little John Wilson and his Merry Men at the Madison Ballroom, including four days backing Billie Holiday, he went on to join Alvin Jackson's house band at the Blue Bird.
As the house drummer at Detroit's Club 12, with Jackson's band, he backed Thelonious Monk and Charlie Rouse in September 1959.
In the 1970s, he accompanied Jamil Nasser and Harold Mabern as the rhythm section for workshops run by Cobi Narita.Discography
;As sideman
;With Sonny Stitt
- 1958: Sonny Stitt
- 1960: Burnin
;With Yusef Lateef
- 1958: Lateef at Cranbrook
- 1959: The Dreamer
- 1959: The Fabric of Jazz
- 1960: Cry! - Tender
;With Red Garland
;With Ahmad Jamal
- 1966: Heat Wave
- 1968: Tranquility
- 1970: The Awakening
- 1971: Freeflight
- 1971: Outertimeinnerspace
- 1976: Recorded Live at Oil Can Harry's
With Al Haig'
