FM
Biography
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, 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.
Genres
Member of
lib/muslib/membership_type_1094
lib/muslib/membership_type_1094
lib/muslib/membership_type_36
Unknown
Fans of Red Holloway (0)
No fans yet. Be first :)
ShoutBox for Red Holloway
CTRL+ENTER = Send Comment
