ROY BURROWES
Genres: Hard Bop, Dub, Ska, Reggae • Jamaica

Roy Burrowes (including Roy Burrows) born February 18 1930 in Kingston (Jamaica) and died  December 2 1998 in London), was an American jazz - trumpet and flugelhorn player. Originally from Jamaica, Roy Burrowes began his career in the early 1960s in the United States in the Duke Ellington Orchestra heard on albums such as Featuring Paul Gonsalves (1962), In The Uncommon Market or The Great Paris Concert , 1963). He worked in 1965 on Clifford Jordan Leadbelly album These are my roots, and with Jordan on the album Reggae Au Go Jazz for the legendary Studio One . Known he was in the early 1970s through his membership in the band of Archie Shepp , so he was on the album Things Have to Got Change (1971, Attica Blues (1972) and There's A Trumpet In My Soul to hear (1975), for The last production he composed together with Beaver Harris titled read more...