Real name: Pete Frank Clarke

American jazz saxophonist (alto, baritone) and clarinetist, born March 10, 1911 in Birmingham, Alabama, died March 27, 1975 in New York.
Brother of Richard Clarke (trumpeter) and Arthur "Babe" Clarke (saxes), played with Montgomery's Collegiate Ramblers, Wayman Carver, Chick Webb, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Teddy Wilson, Rex Stewart, Don Redman, John Kirby, Happy Caldwell, Jimmy Jones and others.