Clarence Profit

{{short description|American jazz musician}}

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Clarence Profit (June 26, 1912 – October 22, 1944){{cite book|title=The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=Colin Larkin|publisher=Guinness Publishing|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2008}} was a jazz pianist and composer associated with swing.

Profit was born in New York, United States. He came from a musical family and began studying piano at the age of three, and he led a ten-piece band in New York City in his teens. A visit to his grandparents in Antigua resulted in his staying in the Caribbean for five years. He also led a group in Bermuda. He returned to the US and led his own trio, which was noted as "a format which best suited his powerful stride piano style". He co-composed "Lullaby In Rhythm" with Edgar Sampson.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/standards-mw0000675410|title=Standards - Art Tatum | Songs, Reviews, Credits |website=AllMusic|access-date=5 October 2021}} He was respected in his era, but after his early death fell into obscurity.

He died in New York in October 1944, at the age of 32.