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Gene Dunlap grew up in Detroit, where he took up the drums while in high school. He became friends with guitarist
Earl Klugh and played with him in local clubs. He became guitarist
Grant Green's drummer, then backed vibraphonist
Roy Ayers. In the mid-'70s, he reunited with
Klugh, with whom he cut a long series of albums over the next 20 years while adding percussion, guitar, synthesizer, and composing to his talents. His tenure with
Klugh was interrupted by three solo albums he cut for Capitol Records, then resumed. In 1994, he released
Groove with You, credited to
the Gene Dunlap Band, on Avenue Jazz Records, but shortly after gave up performing to teach inner city youth in Detroit. In April 2000, he returned with his second Avenue Jazz album, Tales of the Phatman. ~ William Ruhlmann