Alvin Queen


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.
He has also played with Michael Brecker, Kenny Drew, Oscar Peterson, Bennie Wallace, Duško Gojković, Johnny Griffin, and George Coleman.

Discography

As leader

With George Coleman
  • At Yoshi's
With Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
  • Jaw's Blues
With John Hicks and Elise Wood
  • Luminous
With Horace Parlan
  • Pannonica
With John Patton
With Pharoah Sanders
With Charles Tolliver
With Warren Vaché