Red Kelly

Not to end up being confused with trumpeter Joe “Crimson” Kelly, this noted jazz bassist was created Thomas Raymond Kelly in Shelby, MT, about August 29, 1927. He battled polio like a toddler, even though his first device was the drums — he used a fife-and-drum music group organized in the St. Thomas Orphanage in close by Great Falls — his child years affliction remaining him struggling to control the hi-hat cymbal along with his feet, prompting a change to the bass. Currently a specialist musician by age 16, Kelly fallen out of senior high school and relocated to Seattle; he spent a lot of his professional existence on the highway and eventually finished up in NEW YORK, where in the years to check out he performed alongside famous brands Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Barnet, Jimmy Dorsey, and Les Dark brown. In 1952 Kelly became a member of clarinetist Woody Herman, staying along with his group until middle-1955; from 1957 to 1959 he also offered behind pianist Stan Kenton, and spent a lot of the ’60s touring behind Harry Wayne. While on the highway with Adam, Kelly befriended drummer Pal Rich, who continued to be a good friend and periodic collaborator in the years to check out. In 1976 Kelly installed a tongue-in-cheek advertising campaign for the chair of Washington’s condition governor, developing the Owl (“Out With Reasoning, On With Lunacy”) party and working beneath the slogan “Unemployment ISN’T Functioning.” (He emerged in third in the voting.) In 1986 Kelly retired from executing and opened up his very own Tacoma jazz membership, Kelly’s; he was inducted in to the Seattle Jazz Hall of Popularity in 2000 and passed away June 9, 2004.