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Hillard Brown

American jazz drummer. Born : May 12, 1913 in Birmingham, Alabama. Worked with : Ruth Oldham (1934), [a935890] (1935), Tony Fambro (1935), [a4006975] (1935), [a2385675] (1936), [a1409386] (1937), again [a4006975] (1937-'38), [a332600] (1939), [a5076996] (1939), [a825850] (1940-'41), [a636147] (1942), [a1033035] (1943), [a274433] (1943), [a1750857] (1944) and in tour with [a145257] (October 1944), [a311744] (1944), [a257115] (1945), [a687506] (1945).From 1946 until 1954 with his own band in Chicago.Played 1970s with Art Hodes.

Releases

• Rock Instrumentals Story 1934 - 1962
• Carnegie Hall Concerts 1943-47
• Half Acre Day
• The Chronological Bill Samuels 1945-1947
• Volume 5 - 1944-1945 (Complete Edition)
• Portrait
• The Roots Of Chuck Berry
• Complete Prestige Carnegie Hall 1943-1944 Concerts
• Poet Of The Blues
• Bootin' The Boogie -- The Birth Of Rock 'N' Roll, Vol. 2
• Roots Of Rhythm & Blues 1939-1945
• Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story 1945-1955
• I Song Di Irving Berlin E Jerome Kern
• Stars Of Jazz Volume 2
• Stars Of Jazz Volume 1
• The Big Three Trio
• Live And Private Recordings In Chronological Order
• Jazz Masters Of The Sax
• Big Bands: Duke Ellington
• The Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall Concerts (December 1944)
• Festival Jazz Volume One
• Home Cookin'
• Open Up That Door Richard! / Candy Store Jump
• The Fabulous Forties Volume 2 1944/47
• Greatest Stars Of Jazz Volume 1
• His Orchestra And His Small Groups 1936-1958
• Jazzology CD Sampler #2
• Quartet & Sextet