Gerald Cleaver (born May 4, 1963Adler, David R. (December 13, 2013) "Home & Away with Gerald Cleaver". JazzTimes.) is a jazz drummer from Detroit, Michigan.
Cleaver's father is drummer John Cleaver Jr., originally from Springfield, Ohio, and his mother was from Greenwood, Mississippi. Gerald had six older siblings.
Cleaver joined the jazz faculty at the University of Michigan in 1995. He has performed or recorded with Joe Morris, Mat Maneri, Roscoe Mitchell, Miroslav Vitouš,... meer