Redd Holt

Isaac "Redd" Holt (born May 16, 1932)[1] is an American jazz and soul music drummer.

Redd Holt
Birth nameIsaac Holt
Born (1932-05-16) May 16, 1932
Rosedale, Mississippi, U.S.
OriginChicago, Illinois, U.S.
GenresJazz, soul
InstrumentsDrums

Early life and education

Holt was born in Rosedale, Mississippi, and raised in Chicago. He first began playing drums as a student at Crane High School, where he played in an ensemble with future collaborators Ramsey Lewis and Eldee Young.[2] Holt studied music at the Chicago Musical College and radio and television at Kennedy–King College.[3]

Career

Holt enlisted in the United States Army in 1955 and was stationed in Germany, where he played with a military band, and upon his return worked with Lewis, alongside Young, from 1956 to 1966, in addition to recording with Earl Bostic and James Moody near the end of the 1950s.

In 1966, Young and Holt split with Lewis and formed their own group, Young-Holt Unlimited, which went on to achieve commercial success as an instrumental soul band.[4] After the group's dissolution in 1974 Holt continued on as Redd Holt Unlimited, playing under this name into the 1990s, and worked in jazz education in Illinois. He founded the Gumption Artist Workshop, which was active from 1980 to 1985, and played internationally, including at the 1988 Montreux Jazz Festival and in Singapore in the late-1980s and early-1990s.[5] For 15 years, Holt also played with a trio at the East Bank Club in Chicago. The studio sessions produced a vinyl LP named, It's A Take! on the Treehouse Record label with eight full-length jazz standards.

Discography

As leader
  • Look Out!! Look Out!! (Argo, 1963)
  • Isaac, Isaac, Isaac (Paula, 1974)
  • The Other Side of the Moon (Paula, 1975)

With Eldee Young

  • Just for Kicks (Argo, 1962)
  • Wack Wack (Brunswick, 1966)
  • The Beat Goes On (Brunswick, 1967)
  • Feature Spot (Cadet, 1967)
  • Soulful Strut (Brunswick, 1968)
  • Funky But! (Brunswick, 1968)
  • Mellow Dreamin (Cotillion, 1970)
  • Born Again (Cotillion, 1971)
  • Oh Girl (Atlantic, 1973)
  • Plays Super Fly (Paula, 1973)
  • Another Evening at Somerset's Bar (Westin Plaza, 1990)
  • Blues for the Saxophone Club (Golden String, 1996)
  • Live at the Bohemian Caverns 1968 (Brunswick, 1998)

As sideman

With Ramsey Lewis

With others

References
Footnotes
  1. Decker, Todd (2011-06-24). Music Makes Me: Fred Astaire and Jazz. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95006-1.
  2. Pruter, Robert (1992). Chicago Soul. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-06259-9.
  3. "Isaac "Redd" Holt's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2022-07-21.
  4. Larkin, Colin (2011-05-27). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  5. Yanow, Scott (2005). Jazz: A Regional Exploration. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-32871-8.
General references
	*Deborah Gillaspie and Barry Kernfeld, "Redd Holt". The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, 2001.
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