Alvin Burroughs (November 21, 1911 – August 1, 1950) was an American
swing jazz
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drummer.
Burroughs played in Kansas City with Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1928–29Rye, Howard "Burroughs, Alvin". ''Grove Music Online''. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 November 2022. and then with
Alphonse Trent
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Early life
Trent was born in Fort Smith, Arkansas on October 24, 1902. He played piano from childhood and worked in local ban ...
's
territory band
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in 1930.
Moving to
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, he played with
Hal Draper
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's Arcadians (1935), Horace Henderson (July 1937–38), and Earl Hines (September 1938–40); with Hines he recorded extensively. In the early 1940s he worked with
Benny Carter
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(late 1942), and
Red Allen
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(late 1944–April 46), in addition to leading his own band. He was in George Dixon's quartet in 1950 when he died of a
heart attack
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Allmusic
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