September 27, 1927: Trumpeter Robert Roland Chudnick who performed under the stage name Red Rodney, was an American bop and hard boptrumpeter. He was inspired by hearing Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to change his style to bebop, moving on to play with Claude Thornhill, Gene Krupa, and Woody Herman. In 1949 he accepted an invitation from Charlie Parker to join his quintet. As the only white member of the group, in o Der to be allowed to perform with an all Back band, and stay at a hotel in the racially segregated southern United States, he was billed as Albino Red when playing in the South. He experienced a seriesofpersonal crises beginning with addiction, then In Sept. 1963 his father died and a month later, while his wife was driving him back from a Las Vegas gig, his wife lost control of their car, plunging down an embankment on the Nevada highway. Rodney, asleep in the back seat, awoke to find his wife and 14-yr. old daughter dead. He recovered from theses tragic losses and his addiction to a second post-bop career. Here he is with his own quintet performing bop standard Jordu. youtu.be/HFQbVn6DMbc
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