Alvin Alcorn
{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter (1912–2003)}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Alvin Alcorn
| image =
| birth_name = Alvin Elmore Alcorn
| birth_date = {{birth date|1912|9|7}}
| birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana
| death_date = {{death date and age|2003|7|10|1912|9|7}}
| death_place = New Orleans
| genre = Jazz
| occupation = Musician
| instrument = Trumpet
| years_active = 1932–1990
| past_member_of = Kid Ory, Olympia Brass Band
}}
Alvin Elmore Alcorn (September 7, 1912 – July 10, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1437492/Alvin-Alcorn.html|title=Alvin Alcorn |website=Daily Telegraph |date=30 July 2003 |accessdate=18 June 2017}}{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/aug/05/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Alvin Alcorn |first=Peter |last=Vacher|date=4 August 2003|website=The Guardian|accessdate=18 June 2017}}
Career
Alcorn learned music theory from his brother.{{cite book|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|editor1-last=Erlewine|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-last=Bogdanov|editor2-first=Vladimir|editor3-last=Woodstra |editor3-first=Chris|editor4-last=Yanow|editor4-first=Scott|title=All Music Guide to Jazz|date=1998|publisher=Miller Freeman|location=San Francisco |isbn=0-87930-530-4 |page=14|edition=3}} In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Sunny South Syncopators led by Armand J. Piron. He worked in Texas as a member of Don Albert's swing band, but he spent most his career in New Orleans in the dixieland bands of Paul Barbarin, Sidney Desvigne, Oscar Celestin, and Octave Crosby.
During the 1950s, he went to Los Angeles to join the band of Kid Ory, then a couple years later returned to New Orleans. He went on tour in Europe with Chris Barber in the late 1970s and continued to perform into the 1980s.
References
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- {{cite book|last=Barrell|first=Alan|title=The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|author2=Rye, Howard|editor=Barry Kernfeld|pages=25–26|chapter=Alcorn, Alvin (Elmore, Sr.)}}
External links
- {{IMDb name|5678369}}
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Category:American jazz trumpeters
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