Hillard Brown

American jazz drummer. Born : May 12, 1913 in Birmingham, Alabama. Worked with : Ruth Oldham (1934), Johnny Long (1935), Tony Fambro (1935), Les Wilcox (1935), Eddie McLaughlin (1936), Erskine Tate (1937), again Les Wilcox (1937-'38), Sonny Thompson (1939), Bobby Tinsley (1939), Tiny Parham (1940-'41), [a636147] (1942), [a1033035] (1943), [a274433] (1943), Jesse Brown (4) (1944) and in tour with Duke Ellington (October 1944), Billy Eckstine (1944), [a257115] (1945), [a687506] (1945).From 1946 until 1954 with his own band in Chicago.Played 1970s with Art Hodes.