{{Short description|American jazz trumpeter (1912–2003)}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Alvin Alcorn | image = | birth_name = Alvin Elmore Alcorn | birth_date = {{birth date|1912|9|7}} | birth_place = New Orleans, Louisiana | death_date = {{death date and age|2003|7|10|1912|9|7}} | death_place = New Orleans | genre = Jazz | occupation = Musician | instrument = Trumpet | years_active = 1932–1990 | past_member_of = Kid Ory, Olympia Brass Band }}
'''Alvin Elmore Alcorn''' (September 7, 1912 – July 10, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1437492/Alvin-Alcorn.html|title=Alvin Alcorn |website=Daily Telegraph |date=30 July 2003 |accessdate=18 June 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/aug/05/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|title=Alvin Alcorn |first=Peter |last=Vacher|date=4 August 2003|website=The Guardian|accessdate=18 June 2017}}</ref>
==Career== Alcorn learned music theory from his brother.<ref name="AM">{{cite book|last1=Yanow|first1=Scott|editor1-last=Erlewine|editor1-first=Michael|editor2-last=Bogdanov|editor2-first=Vladimir|editor3-last=Woodstra |editor3-first=Chris|editor4-last=Yanow|editor4-first=Scott|title=All Music Guide to Jazz|date=1998|publisher=Miller Freeman|location=San Francisco |isbn=0-87930-530-4 |page=14|edition=3}}</ref> In the early 1930s, he was a member of the Sunny South Syncopators led by Armand J. Piron.<ref name="AM" /> He worked in Texas as a member of Don Albert's swing band, but he spent most his career in New Orleans in the dixieland bands of Paul Barbarin, Sidney Desvigne, Oscar Celestin, and Octave Crosby.<ref name="AM" />
During the 1950s, he went to Los Angeles to join the band of Kid Ory, then a couple years later returned to New Orleans.<ref name="AM" /> He went on tour in Europe with Chris Barber in the late 1970s and continued to perform into the 1980s.<ref name="AM" />
==References== {{reflist}} *{{cite book|last=Barrell|first=Alan|title=The new Grove dictionary of jazz, vol. 1|year=2002|publisher=Grove's Dictionaries Inc.|location=New York|isbn=1561592846|edition=2nd|author2=Rye, Howard|editor=Barry Kernfeld|pages=25–26|chapter=Alcorn, Alvin (Elmore, Sr.)}}
==External links== *{{IMDb name|5678369}}
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