Red Holloway
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James W. "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 - February 25, 2012) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
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Biography
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, and after completing his military service, returned to Chicago and played with Yusef Lateef and Dexter Gordon, among others. In 1948 he joined blues vocalist Roosevelt Sykes and later played with other blues musicians such as Willie Dixon, Junior Parker, Lloyd Price, and John Mayall.
In the 1950s he played in the Chicago area with Billie Holiday, Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Ben Webster, Jimmy Rushing, Arthur Prysock, Dakota Staton, Eddie Vinson, Wardell Gray, Sonny Rollins, Red Rodney, Lester Young, Joe Williams, Redd Foxx, B.B. King, Bobby Bland and Aretha Franklin. During this period, he also toured with Sonny Stitt, Memphis Slim and Lionel Hampton. He became a member of the house band for Chance Records, led by Al Smith, in 1952. He subsequently appeared on many recording sessions for the Chicago-based independents Parrot, United and States, and Vee-Jay.
From 1963 to 1966, he was in organist "Brother" Jack McDuff's band, which also featured a young guitarist, George Benson.
From 1977 to 1982, Holloway worked with Sonny Stitt, recording two albums together, and following Stitt's death, Holloway played and recorded with Clark Terry.
Red Holloway died on February 25, 2012, just one month after Etta James, with whom he had worked with on three of her albums.
Discography
As leader
- The Burner (Prestige, 1963)
- Cookin' Together with Jack McDuff (Prestige, 1964)
- Sax, Strings and Soul (Prestige, 1964)
- Red Soul (Prestige, 1965)
- No tears over you (RH)
- Hittin' the Road Again (JAM, 1982)
- Nica's Dream (Steeplechase, 1984)
- Red Holloway & Company (Concord, 1987)
- Locksmith Blues (Concord, 1989)
- Daydream with T.C.Pfeiler (Tonewheel, 1997)
- In the Red (High Note, 1997)
- Standing Room Only (Chiaroscuro, 1998)
- A Night of Blues and Ballads (JHM, 1999)
- Coast to Coast (Milestone, 2003)
- Something old something new (2007)
- Go Red Go ! (Delmark, 2008)
- Meets the Bernhard Pichi Trio (Organic Music, 2009)
As sideman
With Wade Marcus
- Metamorphosis (1976, Impulse!)
With Horace Silver
- It's Got to Be Funky (1993)
- Pencil Packin' Papa (1994)
With George Benson
With John Mayall
- Ten Years Are Gone (1973)
With Etta James
With Carmen McRae
