Vi Redd

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Vi Redd
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Redd performing in Rochester, New York, 1977
Background information
Born
Elvira Redd

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Los Angeles, California, U.S.
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OccupationTemplate:Pluralize from textMusician, vocalist, teacher
InstrumentTemplate:Pluralize from textAlto saxophone, vocals
Years active1950–2010
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Elvira Louise Redd (September 20, 1928 – February 6, 2022) was an American jazz alto saxophone player, vocalist and educator. She was active from the early 1950s and was known primarily for playing in the blues style. She was highly regarded as an accomplished veteran, and performed with Count Basie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Linda Hopkins, Marian McPartland and Dizzy Gillespie.[1][2]

Life and career

Redd was born on September 20, 1928, in Los Angeles, California,[3] the daughter of New Orleans jazz drummer and Clef Club co-founder Alton Redd and Mattie Redd (née Thomas).[4] Her mother played saxophone, although not professionally, and her brother was a percussionist.[3] She was deeply influenced during her formative years by her father, who was one of the leading figures on the Central Avenue jazz scene. Another important musical mentor was her paternal great aunt Alma Hightower,[2][5] who convinced the 10-year-old Redd to switch from piano to saxophone.[3] During junior high school, Redd played alto saxophone in a band with Melba Liston and Dexter Gordon.[6]

Redd graduated from Los Angeles State College in 1954,[3] and earned a teaching certificate from University of Southern California. After working for the Board of Education from 1957 to 1960, Redd returned to jazz. She played in Las Vegas in 1962, toured with Earl Hines in 1964 and led a group in San Francisco in the mid-1960s with her husband, drummer Richie Goldberg. During this time, Redd also worked with Max Roach. While active, she toured as far as Japan, London (including an unprecedented 10 weeks at Ronnie Scott's), Sweden, Spain and Paris. In 1969, she settled in Los Angeles where she played locally while also working as an educator.[1][7]

She recorded two albums under her own name. Bird Call, released on United Artists in 1962, featured Russ Freeman, Roy Ayers, Herb Ellis, Bob Whitlock and Richie Goldberg on its first half of tracks; the other half was recorded with trumpeter Kansas Lawrence instead of Ellis, and Leroy Vinnegar on bass.

On her second 1963 album Lady Soul (Atco), there were also two sessions with different line-ups. For the most part, pianist Dick Hyman, Paul Griffin on organ, Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar, bassist Ben Tucker and drummer Dave Bailey played; the remaining three tracks were recorded with Bill Perkins on tenor saxophone and flute, organist Jennell Hawkins, guitarist Barney Kessel, Vinnegar on bass, and Leroy Harrison on drums. For both albums Leonard Feather supervised the recordings and wrote the liner notes.[8][9]

In the late 1970s, she recorded another album called Now's the Time with an all-female group of musicians led by Marian McPartland featuring guitarist Mary Osborne, Lynn Milano on bass, and Dottie Dodgion on drums, released on Partland's label Halcyon in 1977.

Redd taught and lectured for many years from the 1970s onward upon returning to Los Angeles.[2][7] She served on the music advisory panel of the National Endowment for the Arts in the late 1970s.[10][11] In 1989, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Los Angeles Jazz Society.[12] In 2001, she received the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Award from the Kennedy Center.[13]

Redd died on February 6, 2022, at the age of 93.[14][15]

Discography

References

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Scott Yanow. "Allmusic: Vi Redd – Biography". Allmusic.com. Archived from the original on April 11, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.James Nadal. "All About Jazz: Vi Redd – Biography". All About Jazz. Archived from the original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Placksin, Sally (1982). "Vi Redd". American Women in Jazz: 1900 to the Present (First ed.). New York: Wideview Books. pp. 259–260. ISBN 9780872237605. OCLC 8280710.
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Isoardi, Steven L. (2005). "Central Avenue Sounds: Vi Redd". Center for Oral History Research, University of California Los Angeles and The Pew Charitable Trusts. Retrieved May 31, 2015. Interviews from 1997 thru 1999.[permanent dead link]
  5. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Sherrie Tucker (Winter 1996–97). "West Coast Women: A Jazz Genealogy" (PDF). Pacific Review of Ethnomusicology. 8 (1): 10. ISSN 1096-1291. Retrieved April 8, 2015.
  6. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dahl, Linda (1984). Stormy Weather: The Music and Lives of a Century of Jazz Women (First ed.). New York: Pantheon Books. p. 250. ISBN 9780039453558. OCLC 10020976.
  7. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Yoko Suzuki (Spring 2013). "Invisible Woman: Vi Redd's Contributions as a Jazz Saxophonist". American Music Review. XLII (2). Archived from the original on April 11, 2015. Retrieved April 10, 2015.
  8. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vi Redd – Bird Call". Allmusic.com. Archived from the original on May 24, 2013. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  9. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Vi Redd – Lady Soul". Allmusic.com. Archived from the original on June 11, 2017. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
  10. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Endowment for the Arts, Annual Report 1978" (PDF). arts.gov. September 1979. p. 31. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  11. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."National Endowment for the Arts, Annual Report 1980" (PDF). Arts.gov. February 1981. p. 205. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  12. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Los Angeles Jazz Society – Lifetime Achievement Award". lajazz.org. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  13. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Mary Lou Williams Festival Features Females". JazzTimes. March 18, 2001. Archived from the original on April 14, 2015. Retrieved April 13, 2015.
  14. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Elvira Louise Goldberg". Forever Missed. Retrieved August 12, 2023.
  15. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Jazz Passings". Jazzpassings.com. Retrieved September 17, 2025.

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