Groups/Bands

Solo Piano

I have been playing the piano since 3 years of age, started classical piano lessons at 5, gave my first recital at 9 and have never stopped. I have played with and have been inspired by many musicians and artists of all styles. From my earliest memories, I can play every song, piece or composition […]

Red Young’s Piano Groups

Red has been playing piano since age 3, starting on classical piano at age five and as a teenager listened to and transcribed the jazz greats – Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, George Shearing and many others. He has performed in many different formats – Piano Trio: piano, acoustic bass, drums… Quartet: piano, bass, drums, saxophone… […]

The Brannen & Red Show

Brannen Temple and Red Young have been playing together for a decade and a half. Many of the same influences, much of the same music they listened to. It’s just the two of them – Brannen on drums and Red on the Hammond B3 organ and anything goes. They play a very wide variety of […]

The Trio

Red has performed on Hammond organ since the late 1960’s. The TRIO is Red’s organ trio which is Red/Hammond organ and vocals; Brannen Temple/drums and Mike Malone/saxes. I have played the three of them with since I moved to Austin in 2002. He met drummer Brannen Temple on a session with singer, songwriter and friend […]

Red Young’s Tenor Madness

This is a group I play with for certain concerts hearkening back to the old days when tenor sax players would play together in harmony and going one-up on each other. Willis ‘Gator’ Jackson, Sil Austin, Gene Ammons, Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis, Stanley Turrentine, Coleman Hawkins and others would go long into the night playing this […]

Red Young & His Hot Horns

This is a band I’ve been writing for a long time. I grew up listening to early blues recordings of Jimmy Witherspoon, Ray Charles, Percy Mayfield, Big Joe Turner, Joe Williams – all the blues before the electric guitar became the dominant instrument in the blues. The band has horns – 2 trumpets and 3 […]