Burt Collins
Burton L. "Burt" Collins was an American jazz trumpeter.
Collins was born in New York but raised in Philadelphia. He worked in the 1950s with Dizzy Gillespie, Urbie Green, Neal Hefti, Woody Herman, Elliot Lawrence, Johnny Richards, and Claude Thornhill. He relocated to New York again around 1960, where he played in Broadway orchestras and in ensembles with Cannonball Adderley, Albert Ayler, Jimmy McGriff, Blue Mitchell, Duke Pearson, and Stanley Turrentine, among others. He and Joe Shepley formed the group Collins-Shepley Galaxy in 1970, which recorded two albums, including a Lennon/McCartney tribute. Later the 1970s he worked with Urbie Green again as well as with Lee Konitz and David Matthews, and played flugelhorn on T. Rex's album Electric Warrior. His other associations include work with Sal Salvador, Pat Moran, Astrud Gilberto, George Benson, Manhattan Transfer, Airto Moreira, Paul Desmond, Eumir Deodato and Lalo Schifrin. He played little after the 1970s, though he appeared on record with Loren Schoenberg in 1987.Discography
With Manny Albam
With Woody Herman
With O'Donel Levy
- Breeding of Mind
- Dawn of a New Day
- Simba
With David Matthews
- Shoogie Wanna Boogie
- Night Flight
- Dune
- Delta Lady
With Duke Pearson
With Johnny Richards
- Wide Range
- Experiments in Sound
- Walk Softly Run Wild
- My Fair Lady My Way
- Aqui Se Habla Espanol
With others
- Albert Ayler, New Grass
- Aztec Two-Step, Two's Company
- Tony Bennett, For Once in My Life
- Tony Bennett, Snowfall
- George Benson, Shape of Things to Come
- Luiz Bonfa, Jacaranda
- James Brown, Reality
- Artie Butler, Have You Met Miss Jones?
- Cy Coleman, The Party's On Me
- Al Jazzbo Collins, Presents Swinging at the Opera
- Chris Connor, A Portrait of Chris
- Eumir Deodato, Deodato 2
- Paul Desmond, Summertime
- Bob Dorough, I'll Never Fall in Love Again
- Art Farmer, Something You Got
- Frank Foster, Manhattan Fever
- Astrud Gilberto, I Haven't Got Anything Better to Do
- Astrud Gilberto, September 17 1969
- Grant Green, The Main Attraction
- Urbie Green, Senor Blues
- Urbie Green, The Message
- Dodo Greene, Ain't What You Do
- Slide Hampton, Two Sides of Slide
- Richard Groove Holmes, New Groove
- Cissy Houston, Think It Over
- Rhetta Hughes, Starpiece
- Janis Ian, Stars
- Janis Ian, Between the Lines
- Garland Jeffreys, Ghost Writer
- Garland Jeffreys, I'm Alive
- J. J. Johnson, Say When
- J. J. Johnson, Broadway Express
- Artie Kaplan, Confessions of a Male Chauvinist Pig
- Lee Konitz, The Lee Konitz Nonet
- Elliot Lawrence, Big Band Sound
- Elliot Lawrence, The Music of Elliot Lawrence
- Michel Legrand, Le Jazz Grand
- Mike Longo, Explosion
- Trini Lopez, Transformed by Time
- Jon Lucien, Premonition
- Jon Lucien, Rashida
- The Manhattan Transfer, Jukin'
- Herbie Mann, Glory of Love
- Trade Martin, Let Me Touch You
- Jimmy McGriff, The Big Band
- Barry Miles, Sky Train
- Garnet Mimms, Has It All
- Blue Mitchell, Smooth as the Wind
- Blue Mitchell, Heads Up!
- Airto Moreira, Free
- Milton Nascimento, Courage
- David "Fathead" Newman, Mr. Fathead
- Ralfi Pagan, Ralfi
- Houston Person, Harmony
- Nat Pierce, The Ballad of Jazz Street
- Trudy Richards, Trudy
- Trudy Richards, Manhattan Serenade
- Scarlet Rivera, Scarlet Fever
- Vicki Sue Robinson, Vicki Sue Robinson
- Vicki Sue Robinson, Never Gonna Let You Go
- Bill Russo, School of Rebellion
- Bill Russo, Seven Deadly Sins
- Sal Salvador, You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet!
- John Sebastian, John B. Sebastian
- George Segal, The Yama Yama Man
- Lalo Schifrin, Towering Toccata
- Loren Schoenberg, Time Waits for No One
- Bobby Scott, Forecast: Rain with Sunny Skies
- Bobby Scott, From Eden to Canaan
- Bob Shad, A 65-Piece Rock Workshop
- Marlena Shaw, Take a Bite
- Marvin Stamm, Machinations
- Dakota Staton, I Want a Country Man
- Jeremy Steig, Firefly
- Stanley Turrentine, Always Something There
- Cedar Walton, Beyond Mobius
- Michael Zager, Life's a Party