Junior Collins
{{short description|American jazz musician}}{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Junior Collins
| birth_name = Addison Collins Jr.
| birth_date = April 17, 1927
| birth_place = Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S.
| death_date = March 14, 1976 (aged 49)
| genre = Jazz
| instruments = French horn
}}
Addison Collins Jr. (April 17, 1927 – March 14, 1976) was an American French horn player.
Background
Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Collins was a member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Force band,[https://books.google.com/books?id=_Y0yJS0SWdcC&dq=%22Addison+collins%22+AND+horn&pg=PA66 Grudens, Richard Chattanooga Choo Choo: The Life and Times of the World Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra Celebrity Profiles Publishing, 2004] {{ISBN|9781575792774}} and Claude Thornhill's orchestra.[https://books.google.com/books?id=dIyO-dQwkDwC&dq=%22Claude+Thornhill%22+AND+%22collins%22+AND+horn&pg=PA663 Kirchner, Bill The Oxford Companion to Jazz Oxford University Press US, 2005] {{ISBN|978-0-19-518359-7}} He later played with Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and the nonet featured on Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool.[http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-the-birth-of-the-cool "The Birth of the Cool"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080924120325/http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-the-birth-of-the-cool |date=2008-09-24 }} by Jeff Sultanof ([http://www.jazz.com Jazz.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021131326/http://www.jazz.com/ |date=2015-10-21 }})
References
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Category:American jazz horn players
Category:20th-century American musicians
Category:United States Army Air Forces personnel of World War II
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