Edward Burke

The unlikely instrumental double of violin and trombone was this artist's speciality when he was featured in the band of Walter Barnes in the late '20s. In the early '30s he gambled musically with the band of Cassino Simpson as well as taking on a load with Ed Carry's Orchestra. In the summer of 1934 he was blowing mostly trombone with Kenneth Anderson, then got into the fine band of Erskine Tate, with whom he stayed through the following year. His next job of importance was with Horace Henderson, and in 1938 he signed on the dotted Hines, Earl Hines that is, whose tricky sy...