Brother Red
Brother Red/Organ Quartet is an organ quartet featuring Red on Hammond B3 (who when he first started playing the Hammond in Massachusetts became known as Brother Red echoing the way he plays the B3), drums, trumpet and saxophone. We play primarily Soul Jazz – that period in American music that had a more funky and [...]
Black Red Black
Black Red Black is an organ trio featuring Ephraim Owens on trumpet, Red Young on Hammond B3 organ and Brannen Temple on drums. We sometimes have special guests as we did on our first album – Shelley Carrol on sax, or Gary Clarke, Jr. on guitar. We play straight ahead, soul and traditional jazz as [...]
Piano Quartet/Quintet
The Piano Quartet is a more experimental jazz quartet while still staying a little traditional. It consists of acoustic piano, acoustic bass, drums and saxophone (soprano and tenor). As well as my own compositions, I have obscure songs by McCoy Tyner, Josef Zawinul, Wayne Shorter and [...]
Red & the Red Hots
Red & The Red Hots / RRH Big Band is a concept I started while working with Linda Ronstadt and Nelson Riddle after the “What’s New” tour of 1983-84. I sang and wrote 4 and 5 part vocals for a section of the show that eventually became Red and the Red Hots which was Linda, [...]
Piano Quintet with Silvie Rider
Piano Quintet with Silvie Rider is the piano quartet with the addition of Silvie Rider, vocalist extraordinaire. We do original compositions, Chick Corea (early Return To Forever), Leon Thomas, and other songs with vocals and harmonies. Some of the songs have Silvie and Red on vocals and soprano sax on harmonies resulting in 3 part [...]
Piano Trio
Piano Trio is a traditional acoustic piano trio with acoustic bass and drums. I do songs from the traditional piano jazz repertoire: Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Mose Allison, Keith Jarrett, etc., and occasionally sing a song or two.
Organ Quartet
Brother Red/Organ Quartet is an organ quartet featuring Red on Hammond B3 (who when he first started playing the Hammond in Massachusetts became known as Brother Red echoing the way he plays the B3), drums, trumpet and saxophone. We play primarily Soul Jazz – that period in American music that had a more funky and [...]