WILLARD S. BROWN

Instruments: Saxes, Clarinet
Date of Birth: 1909
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama
Date of Death:June, 1967

Worked in Chicago with Tiny Parham, Erskine Tate, etc.; recorded with Jabbo Smith (1929). With Grant Moore's Band (1930-31), toured briefly with Louis Armstrong. During the late 1930s worked in New York with Snub Mosley and Eddie Durham (1940), then in Chicago with Walter Fuller and bassist Dallas Bartley. In California with Benny Carter (1943), with Louis Armstrong Big Band (1944), occasionally with Duke Ellington from October 1944 until spring 1945. With Sy Oliver in late 1946-47, regularly with Snub Mosley from 1948 (including U.S.O. tour of Britain in 1952). Worked on and off with Lucky Millinder in the 1950s, with Cab Calloway in 1959. With Milton Larkin in the 1960s.

from Jothan Callins paper on The Birmingham Jazz Community

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