Henry William Burns (c. 1904 – December 1963) was an American
jazz trombonist.
Career
Burns worked early in his career with
Sam Wooding
Samuel David Wooding (17 June 1895 – 1 August 1985) was an American jazz pianist, arranger and bandleader living and performing in Europe and the United States.
Career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, between 1921 and 1 ...
in
Upstate New York and toured Europe with Wooding in 1929. He continued playing in Europe in 1930 as a member of
Noble Sissle
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical ''Shuffle Along'' (1921), and its hit song "I'm Just Wild About Harry".
Ea ...
's band, and was part of recording sessions with Sissle in New York City in 1931. He also received an offer to play with
Paul Whiteman. He spent most of the 1930s playing in Europe, playing principally with
Willie Lewis
William T. Lewis ''(né'' Willie Meria Tawlton Lewis; 10 June 1905 – 13 January 1971) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader.
Career
Lewis was born Cleburne, Texas, United States. He grew up in Dallas and played in variety shows as ...
, and also with
Fud Candrix Alfons "Fud" Candrix (July 17, 1908, Tongeren – April 11, 1974, Brussels) was a Belgian jazz saxophonist and violinist.
Candrix got his start in his brother Jeff Candrix's orchestra, which toured western Europe and Morocco. He founded his own gr ...
and
Freddy Johnson. He also played with
Bill Coleman in Egypt in 1938. In 1941, he moved back to the United States, and was less active in performance thereafter.
["Billy Burns". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. ]Barry Kernfeld
Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians.
Education
In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at U ...
.
References
Further reading
*
Albert McCarthy, ''Big Band Jazz'', Putnam, 1974.
American jazz trombonists
Male trombonists
Musicians from Ohio
American male jazz musicians
1900s births
1963 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
20th-century American male musicians
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African-American jazz musicians