Title	Don Redman at Bass Lake
Subject	Starke County (Ind.) Big bands Publicity photographs
Type	photograph
Item ID	im-starkehs-bass-137
Local Item ID	SCHS1_DVD108_oc35_bk1b_mh67 don redman 1935.jpg
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Date Original	1935
Date Digital	2004
Description	Don Redman, born in 1900, was an American jazz musician, arranger, and composer. His father was a music teacher and his mother was a singer. He began playing the trumpet at 3 and joined his first band at 6. By age 12 he was proficient on all wind instruments ranging from trumpet to oboe. He played piano as well. Don studied at Storer's College in Harper's Ferry as well as at the Boston Conservatory. In 1922 Don Redman joined the Fletcher Henderson orchestra, mostly playing clarinet and saxophones. He soon began assisting in writing arrangements, and Redman did much to formulate the sound that was to become big band swing. His importance in the formulation of arranged hot jazz can not be overstated. His arrangements of harmony and solo lines was a technique used by none others of his time. This sophisticated technique formed the basis of much big band jazz writing in the following decades.