Chuck and Robert Redd: A Redd Christmas December 22, 2010

Chuck Redd made his international debut when he joined the Charlie Byrd Trio in 1980 at the age of 21. That year, he also began performing extensively with the Great Guitars (Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd and Herb Ellis). With Byrd, Redd traveled around the world and throughout the United States. He has recorded over 15 albums with Byrd, the Great Guitars, and other artists. Robert Redd, based in the Washington, DC area, co-leads a group with his brother, Chuck Redd, and appears often as a free-lance musician at Blues Alley with local and national artists. He has performed with the Smithsonian Masterworks Ensemble, worked often as a member of the Charlie Byrd Trio, and appears on the latest Charlie Byrd CD.