Vassar Clements

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Vassar Clements
Clements during a documentary interview in 2004, Live Oak, Florida Court
Background information
Birth name	Vassar Carlton Clements
Born	(1928-04-25)April 25, 1928 Kinards, SC, United States
Died	August 16, 2005(2005-08-16) (aged 77)
Genres	Bluegrass, country
Occupation	Musician
Instrument(s)	Fiddle, viola, cello, double bass, mandolin, tenor banjo, guitar
Formerly of	Bill Monroe and The Blue Grass Boys, Jim and Jesse, Earl Scruggs, John Hartford, Norman Blake, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Old & In the Way, Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, many others

Vassar Carlton Clements (April 25, 1928^[1] – August 16, 2005^[2]) 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.^[3] He was posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018.