Real name: Harry Pitts Brown

Effective period / Period of releases: 1957 - 2003

English singer, drummer, and bandleader, born in London on 17 March 1916, to a Russian Jewish mother and an African-American father, died February 29, 1985 in the same city.
Worked with Harry Roy 1937-1942, after 1945 became identified with the British bop movement. His Ray Ellington Quartet had a regular musical segment on the The Goon's radio show (1951-1960), and he himself often had small speaking roles in many episodes.