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Dan Burley

Dan Burley is credited on 173 releases across 61 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1951–2023 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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173

Pressings credited

61

Albums

8

Decades active

11

In collections

Biography

Dan Burley (November 7, 1907, in Lexington, Kentucky – October 29, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois) was an American pianist and journalist. He appeared on numerous network television and radio shows in the US and had two radio shows of his own on WWRL Radio in New York. He was editor of many African-American publications, including the New York Age, the Amsterdam News, and the magazines Ebony, Jet and Duke. He also appeared in five films, performed with Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Milton Hinton, Lionel Hampton, Leonard Feather, Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and wrote music for Lionel Hampton and Cab Calloway.

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Credited work

173 releases · 61 albums · active 1951–2023

  • Performance · 201
  • Other credits · 3

Studios: DJM Studios · The Lyceum, London · UTV Studio · Carnegie Hall

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