Red Rodney – The Danish Jazz Army (1975/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 45:59 minutes | 946 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Storyville Records
Red Rodney was the last of the original bebop trumpeters. After cutting his musical teeth playing swing with big bands, Rodney converted to jazz under the guidance of Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Joining Parker’s quintet at the age of 21, for more than a half a century he carried on the legacy begun by Gillespie and Miles Davis. Although a true bebop innovator in the 1940s and 1950s, Rodney’s early contributions to jazz were overshadowed by his chaotic personal life. It was not until his later years that he gained respect as a driving creative force of bebop’s developmental era.
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