Red Mack (musician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Red Mack (musician)

American musician

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1912

Place of Birth: Memphis, Tennessee, United States

Date of Death: 14-Jun-1993

Profession: singer, musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Red Mack (musician)

  • Morris McClure, better known under the stage name Red Mack (born January 18, 1912, Memphis, Tennessee - June 14, 1993, Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. Mack was raised in Los Angeles and was a pianist for his local Church of God in Christ as a youth.
  • After learning trumpet as a teenager, he played with Sonny Clay and Les Hite, the latter alongside Louis Armstrong.
  • From 1931 to 1933 he worked with Charlie Echols, then joined Gene Coy's band in Chicago; around this time he also played with Erskine Tate.
  • He moved back to Los Angeles and worked again with Echols as a drummer in 1934, and worked later in the decade with Floyd Ray, Alton Redd, Lorenzo Flennoy, and Lionel Hampton.
  • He also appeared in several Hollywood films. Around 1940 he joined Will Osborne's band; as a black musician, Mack's arrival made the group interracial, and Mack was often treated poorly as a result.
  • The group disbanded in 1941, and Mack moved back to Los Angeles once again, working there with Lee Young, Monette Moore, Barney Bigard, and Kid Ory.
  • He toured Alaska with Luke Jones in 1945 and worked with him for several years thereafter, as well as with Jimmy Mundy and with his own ensembles.
  • A group led by Mack was the house band at The Downbeat, a Los Angeles jazz club, late in the 1950s.
  • He was cast as a bandmember of Kid Ory's in the 1955 film The Benny Goodman Story, but he does not play on the soundtrack; his on-screen trumpeting is actually performed by Alvin Alcorn.
  • He was less active as a trumpeter later in his career but continued to perform on keyboards into the 1970s.

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