Alvin Burroughs

Alvin Burroughs (November 21, 1911 – August 1, 1950) was an American swing jazz drummer.

Burroughs played in Kansas City with Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1928–29^[1] and then with Alphonse Trent's territory band in 1930.^[1]

Moving to Chicago, he played with Hal Draper's Arcadians (1935), Horace Henderson (July 1937–38),^[1] and Earl Hines (September 1938–40);^[1] with Hines he recorded extensively. In the early 1940s he worked with Milt Larkin's band at the Rhumboogie Club,^[2] Benny Carter (late 1942),^[1] and Red Allen (late 1944–April 46),^[1] in addition to leading his own band.^[1] He was in George Dixon's quartet in 1950^[1] when he died of a heart attack. He never recorded as a leader.

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