Freddie Redd

Born May 29, 1928, Harlem, New York City Died March 17, 2021, Manhattan An American hard bop pianist and composer. Turned professional in 1949. The Jack Gelber stage play about heroin addicts waiting for a fix, "The Connection", for which Redd wrote the music, was first performed off-Broadway by the Living Theatre in July 1959, a film version, also featuring Redd, followed in 1961. In 1963, he briefly settled on the…