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It's Red Rodney's Birthday!
Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2019 10:40 am
by RalphHepola
It’s the birthday of vastly-underrated jazz trumpeter Red Rodney, born Robert Roland Chudnick in 1927. He performed and recorded with Charlie Parker and many others. Check him out!
Re: It's Red Rodney's Birthday!
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 10:59 am
by Davidus1
What an awesome player! Thanks for posting.
Re: It's Red Rodney's Birthday!
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 7:35 pm
by Art Hovey
When touring the segregated South with Parker he was listed as "Albino Red" and got away with it by singing a blues every night.
His advice to youngsters trying to learn improvisation: "The melody is never wrong."
Chet Atkins said it this way: "The melody always works."
Re: It's Red Rodney's Birthday!
Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2019 8:26 pm
by Davidus1
Art Hovey wrote:When touring the segregated South with Parker he was listed as "Albino Red" and got away with it by singing a blues every night.
His advice to youngsters trying to learn improvisation: "The melody is never wrong."
Chet Atkins said it this way: "The melody always works."
Sounds like great advice!