JOSEPH E 'JOE' BRITTON

Instruments: trombone
Date of Birth: 1905
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama
Date of Death:1972

Taught by 'Fess' Whatley. Did regular tours with Bessie Smith from 1924 until 1926, first with Fred Longshaw's Orchestra, then with Bill Woods, Orchestra. With Frank Bunch and his Fuzzie Wuzzies (1927). Lived in New York from the early 1930s, worked with Ellsworth Reynolds' Bostonians (c. 1933). Teddy Hill at the Lafayette Theater (1934). Kaiser Marshall's Band (1935), Charlie Johnson (1936), Edgar Hayes (1937), Vernon Andrade's Orchestra (1938-9). Recorded with Jelly Roll Morton in 1940; with Benny Carter (1941), Lucky Millinder (1942-44), Jay Mcshann (1946). Retired from full time music, but continued to gig in the 1960s, including regular work with band led by saxist Wesley Fagan