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    Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer. Redman was born in Piedmont...
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  • and Don Redman. Though Henderson, a piano player, never gained the celebrity of many other bandleaders of the time, his collaborations with Redman nonetheless...
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  • several jazz orchestras of the 1930s, most notably Don Redman's. Starting in 1932, singing in the Don Redman Orchestra, Harlem nightclub Connie's Inn marketed...
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  • production, The Chocolate Dandies, that debuted in 1924. A band led by Don Redman was the first to record with the name "Chocolate Dandies" on the Okeh...
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    Influential jazz musicians who made significant contributions include Don Redman, Jimmy Dorsey, Johnny Hodges, Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt...
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    talents of Don Redman. After Redman's departure from the band in 1927, Henderson took on some of the arranging, but Benny Carter was Redman's replacement...
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  • saxophone player Don Redman was invited to become the Cotton Pickers' musical director and he assembled a band. John Nesbitt helped Redman with arrangements...
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  • Archived from the original on June 10, 2008. Retrieved May 2, 2009. McLeese, Don (2005). Kick out the Jams. Continuum International Publishing Group. pp. 113...
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  • (1880-1967) Boyd Raeburn (1913-1966) Ray Reach (born 1948) Don Redman (1900–1964) (Don Redman Orchestra, 1931–1940) Alvino Rey (1908-2004) Buddy Rich (1917–1987)...
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    2009 The Bailes Brothers Larry Combs, Frank De Vol Hawkshaw Hawkins Don Redman Nat Reese Chickie Williams Doc Williams Class of 2011 Billy Cox Kathy Mattea...
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  • brought the song to lasting fame through his 1928 recording, on which Don Redman is named as composer; later releases credit "Joe Primrose," a pseudonym...
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    Mills Music then assigned Mitchell Parish to add words to the song. Don Redman recorded the song in the same year, and by 1929 it was performed regularly...
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  • Cherry (jazz standard) (category Songs written by Don Redman)
    "Cherry" is a 1928 jazz standard. It was composed by Don Redman, with lyrics written by Redman and Ray Gilbert. Harry James recorded a version in 1942...
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    late Charles Fambrough. In addition, Jymie Merritt was honored with the Don Redman Heritage Award in June 2008 at a ceremony and concert in Harper's Ferry...
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  • Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You (category Songs written by Don Redman)
    Good to You" is a 1929 song written by Andy Razaf and Don Redman. It was recorded by the Redman-led McKinney's Cotton Pickers on Victor on November 5...
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  • and worked with Charlie Turner (1935), Louis Metcalf (1935–36), and the Don Redman Big Band (1936–37).[citation needed] Holiday died in 1937. He was exposed...
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    Walter Dewey Redman (May 17, 1931 – September 2, 2006) was an American saxophonist who performed free jazz as a bandleader and with Ornette Coleman and...
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    Basie's later big bands. Don Redman made innovations in jazz arranging as a part of Fletcher Henderson's orchestra in the 1920s. Redman's arrangements introduced...
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  • include work with Sonny Rollins, Babs Gonzales, Bruce Lawrence, Roy Haynes, Don Redman, Linton Garner, Wynton Kelly, Jordan Fordin, J. J. Johnson, Bennie Green...
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    voice) Fred Robinson (trombone) Jimmy Strong (tenor saxophone, clarinet) Don Redman (clarinet, alto saxophone) Earl Hines (piano) Dave Wilborn (banjo, guitar)...
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  • Kirkpatrick worked intermittently with Chick Webb between 1927-1937 and with Don Redman from 1933-1937; it is for these associations that he is best known. Aside...
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    "New Negro Movement". Razaf collaborated with composers Eubie Blake, Don Redman, James P. Johnson, Harry Brooks, and Fats Waller. Among the best-known...
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    in 1906 and 1907 when Louis Armstrong was still in the orphan's home." Don Redman and Fletcher Henderson also featured scat vocals in their 1925 recording...
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    Bernard Wolf, Thomas Johnson 4 August BBEC Volume 3 20 I Heard (music by Don Redman) Willard Bowsky, Myron Waldman 1 September BBEC Volume 3 21 Morning, Noon...
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    (1931–1933) Cab Calloway (1933; singing voice) Bradley Barker (1933) Don Redman (1933; singing voice) Michael Bell (1989) In-universe information Species...
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    the Round About Midnight tour of Miles Davis' music. He received the Don Redman award in 2011, and the Benny Golson Jazz Master Award at Howard University...
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  • cartoon features music by and a special guest appearance from jazz musician Don Redman and his Orchestra. Workers from the Never Mine wash up before eating lunch...
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  • new arrangement by Don Redman under the title Sugarfoot Stomp. Redman selected this tune out of a book of manuscripts shown to Redman by Armstrong; in the...
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  • Dewey Redman (1931–2006), American jazz tenor saxophonist Don Redman (1900–1964), American jazz musician and composer Joshua Redman (born 1969), prominent...
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  • McIntyre (1931–2001) Don Redman (1900–1964) Andrew White (1942–2020): 861  Bill Barber (1920–2007) Pete Briggs (1904–unknown) Don Butterfield (1923–2006)...
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