Alvin Queen
Drums, Musical Artist
1950 –
Who is Alvin Queen?
Alvin Queen is an American 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 played with Michael Brecker, Kenny Drew, Bennie Wallace, Duško Gojković, Johnny Griffin, and George Coleman.
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