Red Mitchell

Red Mitchell ( Keith Moore Mitchell, born September 20, 1927 in New York City; † November 8, 1992 in Salem, Oregon) was an American bass player of modern jazz. Gudrun Endress according to which he was " a solid rhythm bassist, an impressive soloist who can phrasing as a fan, safe feeling for increases and tonal variety, has has a full voluminous sound and how the devil swings. "

Life and work

Mitchell and had played since the age of five piano lessons later while studying engineering and alto saxophone and clarinet. He changed during his time in the army in Germany to the double bass. After discharge from the army, he studied briefly at The Juilliard School and later privately with Herman Rein Hagen. 1947 to 1948 he performed with Jackie Paris, in the following year with Mundell Lowe, Chubby Jackson's big band and Charlie Ventura and then toured until 1951 with Woody Herman Orchestra. He was then until 1954 a member of the Red Norvo Trio and played in Gerry Mulligan's piano Wi Quartet ( 1954-57 ). The formation in 1954 was celebrated on the third Paris Jazz Festival, to listen to the album Vogue Pleyel Concert. After leaving Mulligan, he moved to Los Angeles, where he lived until 1968. There he played with Hampton Hawes, took Corky Hale and with Ornette Coleman on ( Tomorrow Is The Question! , 1959) and was a member of the studio orchestra at MGM Records. 1961 and 1962 he led a band with Harold Land. According to an estimate by Leonard Feather, he was already represented in this time more than a thousand pictures.

In 1968 he went to Stockholm, where he performed with a number of European jazz musicians like Putte Wickman, Svend Asmussen or Toots Thielemans, but also as a companion American jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Ammons and Phil Woods. His own band consisted of, among others, Bobo Stenson and Rune Carlson; Communications with his group he toured in the United States. He played an exposed by critics duo albums with Lee Konitz, Guido Manusardi, Jim Hall, Tommy Flanagan and Warne Marsh, before he presented several sensational solo albums. He proved his abilities as a composer in 1973 on Blues For A Crushed Soul with Alice Babs and Karin Krog. From 1986 to 1991 he was presented with Clark Terry at numerous festivals.

Red Mitchell experimented early on with other moods on the double bass. Later he voted his bass in fifths, which he reached a much larger range in depth as well as in the high position. This sound is especially good to listen to the duet recordings with Clark Terry ( video clips from ZDF Jazz Club can be found on YouTube ). In the year before his death, in 1991 he was still with Herb Ellis guest star on the cruise ship The Azur at the 5th International Jazz Festival at Sea. ( Video clips of this meeting can be found on YouTube ). In the year before his death, he returned to the United States; He died of a heart attack.

Prizes and awards

His solo album, A Declaration of Independence in 1991 in Sweden album of the year. That same year, Mitchell was the first jazz musician to Royal Swedish Honorary Medal Illis Quorum.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Red Mitchell with Conte Candoli, Hampton Hawes, Joe Maini, Chuck Thompson, Bethlehem Records, 1955
  • Presenting Red Mitchell with James Clay, Billy Higgins, Lorraine Walsh Geller, 1957
  • Hear Ye! with Carmell Jones, Harold Land, Leon Petties, Frank Strazzeri, 1961
  • Fancy Dance by Joe Sample, J. C. Moses, 1969
  • Chocolate with Horace Parlan Cadillac, Nisse Sandstrom, Rune Carlsson, Idrees Sulieman, 1976
  • Jim Hall and Red Mitchell, 1978
  • Simple Is not Easy, solo album, 1983
  • Home Suite, solo album, 1985
  • The Mitchell -Marsh Big Two: Hot House with Warne Marsh, 1985
  • The Red Barron Duo with Kenny Barron, 1986
  • Mitchell 's Talking with Ben Riley, Kenny Barron, 1989
  • Hear Ye! with Harold Land, Carmell Jones, Frank Strazzeri, Leon Pettis, 1989
  • Evolution with Lars Jansson, Joakim Milder, 1995
  • Live in Stockholm with Roger Kellaway, Joakim Milder, 1995
  • Red Mitchell - Warne Marsh Big Two, Vol 2, 1998

Lexigraphic entries

  • Wolf Kampmann Reclams Jazz Encyclopedia Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5
  • Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 Reinbek 2002 ISBN 3-499-16513-9
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