Chuck Redd's "Back to Bossa"

Chuck Redd

Jazz Great Chuck Redd and his Group

in a program he calls "Back to Bossa"

In the early days of the Mainstay, legendary guitarist Charlie Byrd, who filled large concert halls and played before royalty, was persuaded to perform at the Mainstay. Following that first concert, he kept returning with his various famous musician friends, but always with a young drummer and vibes player named Chuck Redd.

Redd, whose credits include the Charlie Byrd Trio as well as the Mel Tormé All-Star Jazz Quintet, has career highlights of 30 international tours to Europe and Japan, and concert appearances at Carnegie Hall and on The Tonight Show.

Chuck's program for this visit celebrates Charlie Byrd's association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova, and his collaborative work with sax legend Stan Getz. Their #1 Jazz Samba album remained on the charts for seventy weeks and brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.

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