Everything about Red Mckenzie totally explained
Red McKenzie (Oct. 14, 1899,
St. Louis, Missouri - Feb. 7, 1948,
New York City) was an American
jazz musician. He was the best-known, and one of the only,
comb players in jazz history.
McKenzie played the comb by placing
tissue paper over the tines and blowing on it, which produced a sound similar to a
kazoo. McKenzie also played the kazoo proper, and occasionally sang. He was a co-founder, with
Jack Bland, of the
Mound City Blue Blowers, who released a number of titles between 1924 and 1925. At the same time, McKenzie also recorded solo as Red McKenzie & the Candy Kids. In 1928, he fronted a group called McKenzie and Condon's Chicagoans for a few sides on
Okeh Records. He returned to the Mound City name again in 1929, 1931, and 1935-36. He recorded as a singer in 1931, and played with
Paul Whiteman in 1932. He sang again with the
Spirits of Rhythm in 1934 and the
Farley-Riley group in 1935. Between 1939 and 1943 he went into retirement, moving back to his birthplace of St. Louis and working in a
brewery, but appeared with
Eddie Condon between 1944 to 1947 as a vocalist. He died of
liver cirrhosis in 1948.
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