Redd Holt

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Isaac "Redd" Holt (* 16th May 1932 in Rosedale , Mississippi) is an American jazz - drummer , bandleader and music educator who with his band projects Redd Holt Unlimited and Young-Holt Unlimited was successful.

Live and act

Holt grew up on the West Side of Chicago, attended Crane Technical High School and studied at the American Conversatory of Music in Chicago. With the pianist Wallace Burton and the bassist Eldee Young he formed the formation The West Side Clefts , which played dance music. After changing the pianist, the Ramsey Lewis Trio emerged in 1956 , to which he belonged until 1965. In 1962 he released his first album under his own name, Look Out !! Look out !! at Argo Records . He also appeared on Lewis' hits Hang on Sloopy and The In Crowd . Shortly after this commercial success he left the Lewis band with Eldee Young and founded the Young-Holt Trio with pianist Don Walker, with whom he recorded several albums for Brunswick Records , such as Wack Wack (1966) and Funky But (1968). After line-up changes, Young and Holt had an R&B hit with Soulful Strut in 1968 with their band Young-Holt Unlimited . After three more albums for Atlantic Records in the early 1970s, Holt formed the formation Redd Holt Unlimited , with which he recorded some pop music records, such as Isaac, Isaac, Isaac (1974) and The Other Side of the Moon (1975), which also contain elements of soul jazz processed. In the early 1980s he played again for a short time with Ramsey Lewis before he again led his own bands, u. a. with Jesse Davis .

In addition to his work as a musician, Holt was active as a music teacher for many years; he taught at the Chicago School of Music in the early 1950s and at the Chicago Cosmopolitan School of Music after 1956 . He has also taught at the Gumption Artists' Workshop and Chicago schools. Between 1980 and 1985, Redd Holt rented a shop on 71st Street, where classes and concerts for the Gumption Artists' Workshop were held. Holt has participated in over 100 recording sessions over the course of his career.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Young Holt Unlimited at Allmusic (English)
  2. ^ Gary Giddins : Weather Bird: Jazz at the Dawn of Its Second Century , p. 35
  3. ↑ Tom Lord Discography
personal data
SURNAME Holt, Redd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holt, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosedale (Mississippi)