Red Holloway
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It is catalogued under topics including 1927 births, 2012 deaths and 20th-century American saxophonists.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Go Red go!
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,297
- Total plays
- 17,889
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James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Holloway started playing banjo and harmonica, switching to tenor sax when he was twelve years old. He graduated from DuSable High School, where he had played in the school big band with Johnny Griffin and Eugene Wright, and attended the Conservatory of Music, Chicago. He joined the Army when he was nineteen and became bandmaster for the U.S. Fifth Army Band <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/R
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1927–2012
- Nationality
- US
- Role / Field
- Saxophonists, Jazz musicians, Jazz
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 15 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Holloway
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Helena
- Place of death
- Morro Bay
- Occupation
- singer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Fantasy
- Image
- Red Holloway photo.jpg
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- place of burial
- Forest Lawn Memorial Park
- Commons category
- Red Holloway
- date of death
- 2012-02-25
- date of birth
- 1927-05-31
- cause of death
- stroke
- manner of death
- natural causes
via Wikidata · CC0