Gus Aiken
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Augustus Aiken (July 26, 1902 in Charleston, South Carolina – April 1, 1973 in New York City) was an early jazz trumpeter who also did blues. He started with the Jenkins Orphanage band.
He was first recorded professionally in 1919. In the 1920s he worked with several groups, but his best known work would be with Louis Armstrong. He went on to play with Sid Catlett, Roy Eldridge, and Elmer Snowden before his career declined. The end of the Big Band era and the rise of rock and roll is seen as causing the decline.[1]
His name is often incorrectly spelled as "Gus Aitken".
Web sources
External links
- Jazz database (In French)
- Gus Aiken recordings at the Discography of American Historical Recordings.
Categories:
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with MusicBrainz identifiers
- Articles with SNAC-ID identifiers
- American jazz trumpeters
- American male trumpeters
- 1973 deaths
- 1902 births
- 20th-century American musicians
- 20th-century trumpeters
- 20th-century American male musicians
- American male jazz musicians
- All stub articles
- American jazz trumpeter stubs