Keith Moore Mitchell, better known as Red Mitchell, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet. Red was raised in New Jersey by a father who was an engineer and loved music, and ...

What I Am was recorded back in 1978 in the midst of the musician's 24-year voluntary exile to Sweden as a political protest against what he saw as the U.S. "institutionalization of violence and racism ...

In the first paragraph of Part 3 of this series, it was not by random choice that I included Red Mitchell's name in the short list of important bassists who emerged in the 1940s. He discovered ways of ...

PLAINVILLE — Red Mitchell, wearing a green apron, is not what you expect. The first name, he will tell you, connotes the bright carrot-colored hair of an Irishman, as most of his customers once ...

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