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Red Mitchell has been played on NTS shows including Jameszoo Fool Radio, with Just One Of Those Things first played on 14 May 2020.

Keith Moore Mitchell (September 20, 1927, New York City - November 8, 1992, Salem, Oregon), better known as Red Mitchell, was an American jazz double-bassist, composer, lyricist, and poet.

Red was raised in New Jersey by a father who was an engineer and loved music, and a mother who loved poetry. His first instruments were piano, alto saxophone, and clarinet. Although Cornell University awarded an engineering scholarship to Mitchell, by 1947 he was in the US Army playing bass. The next year…

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Serenity
Clark Terry Quartet, Red Mitchell
Matrix1979
Serenity
Clark Terry Quartet, Red MitchellMatrix1979
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Just One Of Those Things
Lee Konitz, Red Mitchell
SteepleChase1974
Just One Of Those Things
Lee Konitz, Red MitchellSteepleChase1974
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