Jack "The Bear" Parker was a jazz and R&B drummer and bandleader. In the 1940s he played with Bon Bon Tunnell, Babs Gonzales, Eddie Heywood, and Mary Lou Williams. He also played with Hot Lips Page, Don Byas, Pete Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Sy Oliver, Nat King Cole, Tadd Dameron and many others. He led his own group in the 1950s.