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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]

Archie Alleyne CM
Background information
Born	(1933-01-07)January 7, 1933 Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died	June 8, 2015(2015-06-08) (aged 82)
Genres	Jazz
Occupation(s)	Drummer

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 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

External links

• Archie Alleyne archives are held at the Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, York University Libraries, Toronto, Ontario

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