Vi Redd
Elvira " Vi " Redd, married Elvira Redd Goldberg, ( born September 20, 1928 in Los Angeles ) is an American jazz singer and alto saxophonist ( and Tenorsaxophonistin ).
Life and work
Vi Redd is the daughter of New Orleans jazz drummer and singer Alton Redd, who had a strong influence at the beginning of their musical career. Another important mentor was her great-aunt Alma Hightower, who also organized at the high school, a band in which Melba Liston was also. She has performed in the jazz scene of the Central Avenue of Los Angeles. She played from 1954 to 1956 as a professional musician, among others, Dick Hart. After working as a music teacher 1957-60, she returned to the music scene back, concerted, 1962 in Las Vegas at the Jazz Festival, 1964 with Earl Hines. The mid-1960s, she led in San Francisco with her husband, drummer Richie Goldberg his own band, a quartet; In addition, she worked with Max Roach. During this time, she went on tours to Japan, London ( where she had, inter alia, a ten- week engagement at Ronnie Scott's ), Sweden, Spain and Paris. Redd took under his own name two albums, Bird Call Solid State / United Artists (1962 ) with Russ Freeman, Leroy Vinnegar, Bob Whitlock, Herb Ellis, Carmell Jones, Roy Ayers, and Lady Soul on the label Atco (1963 ), participated with musicians such as Bill Perkins, Barney Kessel, Dick Hyman, Bucky Pizzarelli, Ben Tucker and Dave Bailey. Leonard Feather contributed a lyrics and wrote the liner notes. She has performed with the Count Basie Orchestra, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Linda Hopkins and Marian McPartland; In 1970 she took up with Gene Ammons / Dexter Gordon.
In 1969, she returned to Los Angeles, where they henceforth occurred at the local level, otherwise worked as a music teacher, after graduating from California State University, Los Angeles and the University of Southern California.