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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 …

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