It's Red Rodney's Birthday!

[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!

[Davidus1]

What an awesome player! Thanks for posting.

[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."

[Davidus1]

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!