Keith Moore Mitchell, better known as Red Mitchell, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. Red was raised in New Jersey by a father who was an engineer and loved music, and ...

What I Am was recorded back in 1978 in the midst of the musician's 24-year voluntary exile to Sweden as a political protest against what he saw as the U.S. "institutionalization of violence and racism ...

Piano/bass duos are not as commonplace as piano/bass/drums trios, probably because duos rarely make up a regularly working group. That doesn't mean that the frequently one-off recordings by duos ...

PLAINVILLE — Red Mitchell, wearing a green apron, is not what you expect. The first name, he will tell you, connotes the bright carrot-colored hair of an Irishman, as most of his customers once ...

From backing Billie Holiday to powering Hampton Hawes sessions to swingin' with Stan Keton, bassist Red Mitchell had quite the resume. He was one of the most in-demand bass players on both the east ...

Mitchell, a jazz bassist who played with such greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Billie Holliday, died in Salem, Ore., of a heart attack and stroke Sunday. He was 65. Mitchell made many solo recordings, ...

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