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Alvin Queen is an American-born Swiss jazz drummer born in the Bronx, New York, on August 16, 1950. At 16, he played for Ruth Brown and Don Pullen and with the Wild Bill Davis trio. He played with trombonist Benny Green and guitarist Tiny Grimes in 1969 and replaced Billy Cobham in the Horace Silver quintet. He also played with the George Benson quartet before rejoining Charles Tolliver in November 1971. During the seventies, he lived in Canada, before settling in Switzerland in 1979 and creating the label Nilva, an anagram of his first name.

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  • Alvin Queen (en)
  • آلفين كوين (ar)
  • Alvin Queen (de)
  • Alvin Queen (it)
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  • آلفين كوين (بالإنجليزية: Alvin Queen)‏ هو عازف جاز أمريكي، ولد في 16 أغسطس 1950 في نيويورك في الولايات المتحدة. (ar)
  • Alvin Queen (New York City, 16 agosto 1950) è un batterista statunitense di musica jazz. (it)
  • Alvin Queen (* 16. August 1950 in Bronx, New York) ist ein amerikanischer Schlagzeuger des Modern Jazz. Queen, der aus einer Arbeiterfamilie stammt, verdiente das Geld für den Schlagzeugunterricht als Schuhputzer. Bereits mit zwölf Jahren war er an einer Schallplatteneinspielung beteiligt. Horace Silver holte ihn 1968 in seine Band. Anschließend spielte Queen bei George Coleman, Randy Weston, Milt Jackson, George Benson und vor allem Charles Tolliver, mit dem er 1971 Europa besuchte. Nach einer weiteren Europatournee zog er 1978 nach Genf und arbeitete von dort aus mit Jimmy Woode, Jay McShann, Harry Sweets Edison, Pharoah Sanders, Junior Mance oder Johnny Griffin. Seit 1980 war er auch mit eigenen Gruppen unterwegs, zu denen Musiker wie Dusko Goykovich, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Terence Blanchard (de)
  • Alvin Queen is an American-born Swiss jazz drummer born in the Bronx, New York, on August 16, 1950. At 16, he played for Ruth Brown and Don Pullen and with the Wild Bill Davis trio. He played with trombonist Benny Green and guitarist Tiny Grimes in 1969 and replaced Billy Cobham in the Horace Silver quintet. He also played with the George Benson quartet before rejoining Charles Tolliver in November 1971. During the seventies, he lived in Canada, before settling in Switzerland in 1979 and creating the label Nilva, an anagram of his first name. (en)
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  • Alvin Queen (en)
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  • Alvin Queen (en)
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  • Bronx, New York, U.S. (en)
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