Alvin Burroughs

Alvin Burroughs was an American swing jazz drummer.
Burroughs played in Kansas City with Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1928–29 and then with Alphonse Trent's territory band in 1930.
Moving to Chicago, he played with Hal Draper's Arcadians, Horace Henderson, and Earl Hines ; with Hines he recorded extensively. In the early 1940s he worked with Milt Larkin's band at the Rhumboogie Club, Benny Carter, and Red Allen, in addition to leading his own band. He was in George Dixon's quartet in 1950 when he died of a heart attack. He never recorded as a leader.