Roy Burrowes

Roy Burrowes (also Roy Burrows , * 18 February 1930 in Kingston (Jamaica) , † 2. December 1998 in London ) was a jazz - trumpet and flugelhorn player .

Roy Burrowes, from the Caribbean island of Jamaica, began his career in the United States in the early 1960s with the Duke Ellington Orchestra , to be heard on albums such as Featuring Paul Gonsalves (1962), In the Uncommon Market and The Great Paris Concert (1963). He worked on Clifford Jordan's lead belly album These are my Roots in 1965 ; together with Jordan the album Reggae Au Go Jazz was created for the legendary Studio One .

He became better known in the early 1970s through his membership in Archie Shepp's band ; so he could be heard on his albums Things Have to Got Change (1971), Attica Blues (1972) and There's a Trumpet in my Soul (1975); for the last production he composed the title "Down in Brazil" with Beaver Harris .

In 1979 he was a member of the Walter Davis Company with Johnny Dyani and Clifford Jarvis ( Blues Walk ). In 1980 the only album that Burrowes released under his own name was released, a live recording from Paris with a quintet that he directed with Mal Waldron ( Live at Dreher ). No later recordings with Roy Burowes are available.

Web links

• Entry on Allmusic

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• Bielefeld catalog 1985, 1988 and 2001
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, Oxford et al. 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .