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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 2
Top works
- Don Redman - master of the big band
- Internship with Greenways
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1900
- Active to
- 1964
Discography
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 15,164
- Total plays
- 62,235
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Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900, Piedmont, West Virginia - November 30, 1964, New York) was an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer. Redman was born in Piedmont, West Virginia. His father was a music teacher, his mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of 3, joined his first band at 6 and by age 12 he was proficient on all wind instruments ranging from trumpet to oboe as well as piano. He studied at at Storer's College in Harper's Ferry and at the Boston Con
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Don
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mineral County
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- musician
- Educated at
- Boston Conservatory at Berklee
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- jazz
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
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- date of birth
- 1900-07-29
- date of death
- 1964-11-30
- cause of death
- disease
- start of work period
- 1920-00-00
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- Commons category
- Don Redman
- manner of death
- natural causes
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