Allen Durham

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Allen Durham (* around 1910; † after 1945) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues musician ( trombone ).

Allen Durham was a cousin of Eddie Durham and worked in Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy in Kansas City from the late 1920s , where he replaced Flip Benson . The solos of Durham and Mary Lou Williams are considered the best contributions to Andy Kirk's early title "Cloudy" (Brunswick 1929). Further recordings were made during this time with John Williams and His Memphis Stompers ("Somepin 'Slow and Low"). In 1936 he appeared in Louis Armstrong's jazz band in the music film Pennies from Heaven (directed by Norman Z. McLeod ).

In the following years Durham belonged to the swing bands of Les Hite (1940-1942), Fletcher Henderson , Lionel Hampton (1944) and Buddy Banks . In 1945 he worked (with Banks, among others) on Marion Abernathy's song “Voo It! Voo It! “With; the R&B title came (under the pseudonym The Blues Woman ) in 1946 to # 4 on the "Race Records" charts . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 33 recording sessions between 1929 and 1945. also with T-Bone Walker ("T-Bone Blues") and Dinah Washington .

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  1. ↑ Andy Kirk, Amy Lee, Howard Rye: Twenty Years on Wheels . University of Michigan Press, 1989, p. 59
  2. ↑ Cf. Gunther Schuller The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945 Oxford 1989, p. 351 and Frank Driggs , Chuck Haddix Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop: A History Oxford 2006, p. 88
  3. ↑ Pennies from Heaven in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  4. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 24, 2019)
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SURNAME Durham, Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rhythm, blues and jazz musician (trombone)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH after 1945