Roy Burrows (also Roy Burrows , born February 18, 1930 in Kingston (Jamaica) ,  December 2, 1998 in London ) was a jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn .

Originally from the Caribbean island of Jamaica Roy Burrowes began his career in the United States in the early 1960s in the Duke Ellington Orchestra , listening to albums such as Featuring Paul Gonsalves (1962), In the Uncommon Market or The Great Paris Concert (1963). He appeared in 1965 on Clifford Jordan’s Leadbelly album These are my Roots ; with Jordan also the album Reggae Au Go Jazz was created for the legendary Studio One .

He became better known in the early 1970s through his membership in the band of Archie Shepp ; he was on his albums Things Have to Got Change (1971), Attica Blues (1972) and There’s a Trumpet in my Soul (1975) to hear; For the last production he composed together with Beaver Harris the title “Down in Brazil”.

In 1979, he was a member of the Walter Davis Company with Johnny Dyani and Clifford Jarvis ( Blues Walk ). In 1980, the only album Burrowes released under his own name, a live recording from Paris with a quintet, which he directed with Mal Waldron ( Live at Dreher ). From later time there are no recordings with Roy Burowes.