Archie Alleyne
CM
Image of playing drums
Background information
Born(1933-01-07)January 7, 1933
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
DiedJune 8, 2015(2015-06-08) (aged 82)
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Drummer

Archibald Alexander "Archie" Alleyne CM (January 7, 1933 – June 8, 2015) was a Canadian jazz drummer.[1] Best known as a drummer for influential jazz musicians such as Billie Holiday, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster, he was also prominent as a recording artist on his own and with Canadian jazz musicians such as Oliver Jones, Cy McLean and Brian Browne.[2]

Born and raised in Toronto, Ontario,[1] Alleyne became the house drummer at the Town Tavern jazz club in his 20s.[1]

Following a serious car accident in 1967, Alleyne stepped away from music for a number of years,[1] becoming a partner with Dave Mann, John Henry Jackson and Howard Matthews in The Underground Railroad, a soul food restaurant in Toronto.[3]

After being bought out of the restaurant in 1981,[4] he returned to music in the early 1980s with Oliver Jones' band.[2]

Alleyne was named to the Order of Canada in 2011.[2] He established the Archie Alleyne Scholarship Fund to provide bursaries to music students,[5] and wrote Colour Me Jazz: The Archie Alleyne Story, an autobiography which was published a few months after his death.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Archie Alleyne, renowned Toronto jazz drummer, dead at 82". CBC News, June 8, 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "RIP Archie Alleyne". Ottawa Citizen, June 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Rosemary Sadlier, "BLACK IN TORONTO: Remembering Howard Matthews and the now-closed Underground Railroad Restaurant". Scarborough Mirror, September 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Mark Miller, "Alleyne is back, and so are his 'chops'". The Globe and Mail, February 18, 1982.
  5. ↑ "The Life and Times of Archie Alleyne, Toronto's Greatest Jazz Drummer". Noisey, June 8, 2015.
  6. ↑ "Colour Me Jazz: The Archie Alleyne Story launch, reading". CJRT-FM, October 28, 2015.


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