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{{short description|American jazz musician}}
 
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'''Francis Dunlop''' (December 6, 1928 – July 7, 2014) was an American [[jazz]] drummer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jazztimes.com/articles/135893-drummer-frankie-dunlop-dead-at-85|title=Drummer Frankie Dunlop Dead at 85|last=Tamarkin|first=Jeff|date=August 3, 2014|publisher=[[JazzTimes]]|accessdate=25 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914155913/http://jazztimes.com/articles/135893-drummer-frankie-dunlop-dead-at-85|archive-date=14 September 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
 
Dunlop, born in [[Buffalo, New York]], grew up in a musical family and began playing guitar at age nine and drums at ten. He was playing professionally by age 16 and received some classical education in percussion. He toured with [[Big Jay McNeely]] and recorded with [[Moe Koffman]] in 1950 before serving in the [[United States Army|Army]] during the [[Korean War]]. After his discharge he played with [[Sonny Stitt]], [[Charles Mingus]], [[Sonny Rollins]] (1958, 1966–67), [[Maynard Ferguson]] (1958–60), [[Lena Horne]], [[Duke Ellington]] (1960), and [[Thelonious Monk]] (1960–64); it is for his recordings with the last of these that he is principally remembered. Later in his life he recorded with [[Lionel Hampton]] (1975–81), [[Earl Hines]] (1973–74), [[Ray Crawford (musician)|Ray Crawford]], and [[Joe Zawinul]].
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In 1984, Dunlop retired, having recorded on over 100 albums.
 
His brother, [[Boyd Lee Dunlop]], was a jazz pianist who was "rediscovered" while living at a nursing home in Buffalo. He was profiled in a [[The New York Times|''New York Times'']] article in December, 2011.<ref>{{Cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/us/an-aging-jazz-pianist-finds-a-new-audience.html | title=Rhythms Flow as Aging Pianist Finds New Audience | newspaper=The New York Times | date=9 December 2011 | last1=Barry | first1=Dan }}</ref>
 
==Discography==
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* ''Thelonious Monk in Europe Vol. 3'' (Riverside, 1964)
* ''[[Big Band and Quartet in Concert]]'' (Columbia, 1964)
* ''Misterioso'' (Columbia, 1965)
* ''Two Hours with Thelonious'' (Riverside, 1969)
* ''[[Monk in Tokyo]]'' (Columbia, 1969)
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==References==
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*[{{AllmusicAllMusic|class=artist|id=p72679/biography|pure_url=yes}} Frankie Dunlop] at [[Allmusic]]
*[[Leonard Feather]] and Ira Gitler, ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford, 1999, p. 196.
*[https://scottkfish.com/2019/10/03/frankie-dunlop-complete-interview-pt-1-of-7/ Frankie Dunlop interview by Scott K. Fish]
 
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