Leon Abramson

Leon Abramson (born 6 April 1925), known as Lee Abrams is a jazz drummer, brother of Ray Abrams, the jazz saxophonist.[1]

Life

Abrams was born in New York, and was raised in Brooklyn, his father played the violin and clarinet.[2] He joined the army in 1943. He was discharged in 1946.[3]

He played with Roy Eldridge. On 52nd Street he played with Coleman Hawkins, Eddie Lockjaw Davis and Jay Jay Johnson.

References

  1. ↑ Martin Harry Greenberg (1979). The Jewish lists: physicists and generals, actors and writers, and hundreds of other lists of accomplished Jews. Schocken Books. p. 159.
  2. ↑ The Encyclopedia of Jazz. Editor, Leonard Feather. Horizon Press, 1956. p. 75.
  3. ↑ Walter Bruyninckx. 60 years of recorded jazz, 1917-1977 1. Bruyninckx. p. A-10.
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