Junior Collins
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Junior Collins | |
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| Born | Addison Collins Jr. April 17, 1927 Pine Bluff, Arkansas, U.S. |
| Died | March 14, 1976 (aged 49) |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Instruments | French horn |
Addison Collins Jr. (April 17, 1927 – March 14, 1976) was an American French horn player.
Background
[edit | edit source]Born in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Collins was a member of Glenn Miller's Army Air Force band,[1] and Claude Thornhill's orchestra.[2] He later played with Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and the nonet featured on Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool.[3]
References
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- ^ Kirchner, Bill The Oxford Companion to Jazz Oxford University Press US, 2005 Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ "The Birth of the Cool" Archived 2008-09-24 at the Wayback Machine by Jeff Sultanof (Jazz.com Archived 2015-10-21 at the Wayback Machine)
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