Alvin Burroughs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAlvin Burroughs
American musician
Date of Birth: 21-Nov-1911
Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, United States
Date of Death: 01-Aug-1950
Profession: jazz musician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Alvin Burroughs
- Alvin Burroughs (November 21, 1911 – August 1, 1950) was an American swing jazz drummer. Burroughs was raised in Pittsburgh.
- He played in Kansas City with Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1928-29 and then with Alphonse Trent's territory band before moving to Chicago around 1930.
- There he played with Hal Draper's Arcadians (1935), Horace Henderson (1937–38), and Earl Hines (1938–40); with Hines he recorded extensively.
- In the 1940s he worked with Milt Larkin, Benny Carter (1942), and Red Allen (1945-46), in addition to leading his own groups.
- He was in George Dixon's quartet in 1950 when he died of a heart attack.
- He never recorded as a leader.
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