| LC control no. | n 86069627 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | ML419.C26 Biography |
| Personal name heading | Callender, Red |
| Variant(s) | Callendar, Red Callandar, Red Callender, George Sylvester |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1916-03-06 |
| Death date | 1992-03-08 |
| Place of birth | Haynesville (Va.) |
| Place of death | Los Angeles (Calif.) |
| Affiliation | Louis Armstrong Orchestra King Cole Trio Lee & Lester Young's Orchestra NBC Symphony Orchestra Sweet Baby Blues Band |
| Profession or occupation | Bass guitarists Tubists Jazz musicians |
| Found in | His Unfinished dream, 1985: t.p. (Red Callender) p. xiii (b. Mar. 6, 1916) LC data base 6-10-86 (hdg: Callender, Red) New Orleans, 1947: credits (Red Callendar) New Grove dict. of jazz (Callender, Red (George Sylvester); b. Mar. 6, 1916, Haynesville, VA; double bass and tuba player) Jazz at the Philharmonic [SR] 1946?: labels (Red Callandar, double bass) Guinness enc. of pop. mus., 2nd ed. (Callender, Red; b. George Sylvester Callender, Mar. 6, 1916, Haynesville, Va., d. Mar. 8, 1992, Los Angeles, Calif.) African American National Biography, accessed July 06, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Callender, Red; George Sylvester Callender; jazz musician, tuba player, bassist; born 06 March 1916 in Haynesville, Virginia, United States; made his recording debut the following year with Louis Armstrong's big band; worked and recorded with the early Nat King Cole Trio (1938-1939), appeared on movie soundtracks, and gigged with the Lee and Lester Young band (1940-1943); led his own trio (1944); lived in Honolulu (1947- 1950) where he led a trio and performed with the Honolulu Symphony; became one of the very first African American musicians to become a full-time studio musician (1950); recorded Red Callender Speaks Low, the first full modern-jazz album to feature the tuba as the lead solo instrument (1954); was the first African American to join the staff of NBC in California; worked for CBS (1964); appeared at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival with Charles Mingus; founder of the Wind College (1980s); regular member of the Sweet Baby Blues Band); died 08 March 1992 in California, United States) |
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