Larance Marable (May 21, 1929 - July 4, 2012) was a West Coast jazz hard bop drummer born in Los Angeles, California, probably best known for his work with Charlie Haden in his Quartet West. However, Marable also had a strong career first as a bop musician in the 1950s working with the likes of Dexter Gordon and Charlie Parker, among others. In the 1960s he started to venture into the cool jazz idiom with musicians like Zoot Sims, George Shearing and Chet Baker, although he worked with Baker as early as 1952 on the album "Bird and Chet: Live at the Trade Winds".
Earlier in his career, he was known as Lawrence Marable.
Larance was a relative of Mississippi riverboat bandleader Fate Marable.
With Curtis Amy
With Ruth Cameron
With Robert Stewart (saxophonist)
With Chet Baker
With Conte Candoli and Lou Levy
With Kenny Drew
With Teddy Edwards
with Victor Feldman
With Dexter Gordon
With Jimmy Giuffre
With Charlie Haden
With Hampton Hawes