REDMAN, DONALD MATTHEW (DON
). Jazz arranger/Composer ( in Piedmont, West Virginia; in New York, New York). He came from a musical family: his father was a music teacher and a brother, Lewis, became a professional musician. He learned to play wind instruments as a child. He obtained his musical education at Storer's Teachers College in West Virginia and at the Boston Conservatory of Music in Massachusetts. During the 1920s he played soprano and alto...