Artist
Hayes Alvis
Chicago, United States
Hayes Alvis is a musician from Chicago, United States. They also recorded with Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
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Biography
Jazz bassist and tuba player, born 1 May 1907 in Chicago, Illinois, died 29 December 1972 in New York City.
Alvis worked with Jelly Roll Morton 1927-1928, Earl Hines 1928-1930, Jimmie Noone 1931, The Mills Blue Rhythm Band 1931-1934, 1936), Duke Ellington 1935-1938, Benny Carter 1939-1940, Joe Sullivan 1940, 1942, Louis Armstrong 1940-1942, in an army band led by Sy Oliver 1943-1945, and pianist Dave Martin 1946-1947. After long-term engagement as house musician at the Café Society in New York, worked as freelance. In 1970 toured and recorded in Europe with Jay McShann and Tiny Grimes.
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Duke Ellington and His Orchestra
A project Hayes Alvis was part of. Former member.
Ellington Indigos
1958
Ellington At Newport
1956
Masterpieces By Ellington
1951
Otto Preminger's Anatomy Of A Murder (From The Sound Track Of The Motion Picture)
1959
Ellington Uptown
1953
Such Sweet Thunder
1957
Duke Ellington's Liberian Suite
1949
Ellington Jazz Party
1959
In A Mellotone
1956
Mood Indigo
1973
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra 1940-1941
1971
"...And His Mother Called Him Bill"
1968
At The Cotton Club
1959
Black, Brown And Beige
1958
The Indispensable Duke Ellington Volumes 7/8 (1941-1942)
1984
The Great Paris Concert
1973
1928 - 1933
1971
Primping For The Prom
1968
The Popular Duke Ellington
1966
Festival Session
1960
1935-1936
1992
The Works Of Duke - Integrale Volume 9
1974
Concert In The Virgin Islands
1965
The Symphonic Ellington
1963
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