Red Rodney

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Red Rodney

Communications

#9177

World Rank

#12448

Historical Rank

#4054

USA Rank

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Why Is Red Rodney Influential?

According to Wikipedia, Robert Roland Chudnick , known professionally as Red Rodney, was an American jazz trumpeter. Biography Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940s for the big bands of Jerry Wald, Jimmy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Elliot Lawrence, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown. He was inspired by hearing Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to change his style to bebop, moving on to play with Claude Thornhill, Gene Krupa, and Woody Herman. He was Jewish.

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