Mack, Red

Américain. Né à Memphis, décédé à Los Angeles. Etudes : tp (à l’école). Expérience : Sonny Clay (1929-30), Louis Armstrong-Les Hite (Culver City, Cotton Club,1930 –il remplace Louis lorsqu’il fut arrêté pour détention de marijuana-), Cee Pee Johnson, Charlie Echols, Lorenzo Flennoy (1941), Lionel Hampton, Lester Young, Barney Bigard’s All Stars (avec Kid Ory, tb, Charlie Mingus, b), Will Osborne (1941), son orch. (Teddy Edwards, ts), Kid Ory (1955), ses combos (1963 : Paris, Suisse), Nellie Lutcher. Egalement p, org, vib, dm, voc. D’abord inspiré par Claude Kennedy (tp, Texas), puis par Louis Armstrong. Estimé par Buck Clayton. ‘He was a beautiful trumpet player, an absolutely great musician. But I can’t tell you why he never really made it …. I mean, with the public, although all of the Los Angeles musicians knew him. I met him when I was on the Lorenzo Flennoy band ….. we were on that band together. You’ll notice that he is a light-skinned black man. He went with Will Osborne’s orchestra soon after these films were made. Not too many people know this, but Osborne was one of the earliest white band’s to integrate. Yes, Red Mack … really an unbelievable trumpet player’ (Chico Hamilton), ‘I didn’t know him that well, but Red Mack Morris was a real nice guy and a tremendous trumpet player. Good chops, man. Few people know it, but he was also a very fine organ player as well, and he kept a organ in his home’ (Teddy Edwards), ‘one hell of a guy, and a wonderful trumpet player’ (Clora Bryant).

Enregistrements

Benny Carter (1946) ; Jimmy Mundy (avec Clyde Hurley, Ray Linn, Walter Williams, tp) ; Luke Jones (1946, Atlas 115) ; sous son nom (1946, Helen Andrews, voc, James Peterson, ts, Lloyd Glenn, p, Atlas 118 ; Los Angeles, 1951, Red Mack & his Trumpet, ‘Just Like Two Drops of Water’, ‘Mr Big Head’, ‘Hoo Doo’, ‘My Baby’s Gone’, Mercury 8217 & 8224). Films Benny Goodman Story (1955, avec Kid Ory) ; You’ll Never Get Rich avec Fred Astaire (1941, avec Chico Hamilton, dm, Buddy Collette, cl, Joe Comfort, jug, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaXzzziNQ_A&feature=player_embedded) ; Lucky Ghost (1941, sorti en 1942, avec Lorenzo Flennoy & his Chocolate Drops, Rose Murphy & the King Cole Orch., avec Chico Hamilton, dm : ‘Dinah’, ‘I can’t Give You Anything But Love’, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDxKtmAFpYk). A. Hailstork, Sonata for Trumpet & Piano (label Albany) ; Branford Marsalis (A. Singleton, In Our Own House, Albany) ; RodneyMackPhiladelphia Big Brass (Fearless) ; sous son nom (Spirit of the Trumpeter, Albany ; Dark Fires vol.2, Albany ; Get Ready). Dizzy Gillespie Big Band. Films Jivin’ in BeBop (fin 1946).

Vidéos

Luke Jones (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyeJ92imdXY). Bigliographie B. Clayton : Buck Clayton’s Jazz World (Continuum Int. Pub. Group, p43-44). Philadelphia Big Brass, doc. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTecpb9E6GI&feature=player_embedded) ; master class (2011, Going for It, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4C5l5kBn4M&feature=related) ; pub. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnVbmPLM2Lk&feature=relmfu). D. Gillespie (‘Oop Bop Sh’ Bam’, 1946, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQMj1Ya83c&feature=related).