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), Walter Fuller (1942), Carroll Dickerson (1943), Jay McShann (1943), Jesse Brown (4) (1944) and in tour with Duke Ellington (October 1944), Billy Eckstine (1944), Ben Webster (1945), Dallas Bartley (1945).From 1946 until 1954 with his own band in Chicago.Played 1970s with Art Hodes.