Redman, Don.

Don Redman, jazz composer, arranger and bandleader, was a leading contributor to the development of big band sound of the 1920's and 1930's along with Fletcher Henderson.

Redman was born in West Virginia in 1900 and died in 1964 in New York. He came from a musical family, and was a child prodigy, playing the trumpet at age three. He joined a band at six and spent much of his childhood studying every instrument in the band as well as harmony, theory and composition. He completed his studies at the Boston and Detroit Conservatories, and was a member of Fletcher Henderson's band between 1924-1927. He also recorded and arranged for Henderson and did arrangements for Louis Armstrong.

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