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May 1946 Photo: William P. Gottlieb"><img alt="Allen at the Onyx Club, New York City c. May 1946 Photo: William P. Gottlieb" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Red_allen_loc_02.jpg/220px-Red_allen_loc_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="169" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Red_allen_loc_02.jpg/330px-Red_allen_loc_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Red_allen_loc_02.jpg/440px-Red_allen_loc_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="926" data-file-height="712" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Allen at the <a href="/wiki/Onyx_Club_(New_York_City)" class="mw-redirect" title="Onyx Club (New York City)">Onyx Club</a>, New York City<br />c. May 1946<br />Photo: <a href="/wiki/William_P._Gottlieb" title="William P. Gottlieb">William P. Gottlieb</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Henry James Allen Jr.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1908-01-07</span>)</span>January 7, 1908<br /><a href="/wiki/Algiers,_New_Orleans" title="Algiers, New Orleans">Algiers, New Orleans, Louisiana</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">April 17, 1967<span style="display:none">(1967-04-17)</span> (aged 59)<br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>, New York, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">Jazz</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data role">Musician</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instrument</th><td class="infobox-data note">Trumpet</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Years active</span></th><td class="infobox-data">1924–1967</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Musical artist</div> <p><b>Henry James "Red" Allen Jr.</b> (January 7, 1908 – April 17, 1967) was an American <a href="/wiki/Jazz" title="Jazz">jazz</a> trumpeter and vocalist whose playing has been claimed by <a href="/wiki/Joachim-Ernst_Berendt" title="Joachim-Ernst Berendt">Joachim-Ernst Berendt</a> and others as the first to fully incorporate the innovations of <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Berendt_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berendt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RCJE_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RCJE-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Life_and_career">Life and career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Allen&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Life and career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Allen was born in the <a href="/wiki/Algiers,_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="Algiers, Louisiana">Algiers</a> neighborhood of <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans,_Louisiana" class="mw-redirect" title="New Orleans, Louisiana">New Orleans, Louisiana</a>, the son of the bandleader Henry Allen Sr. He took early trumpet lessons from <a href="/wiki/Peter_Bocage" title="Peter Bocage">Peter Bocage</a> and <a href="/wiki/Manuel_Manetta" title="Manuel Manetta">Manuel Manetta</a>. </p><p>Allen's career began in <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Desvigne" title="Sidney Desvigne">Sidney Desvigne</a>'s Southern Syncopators. He was playing professionally by 1924 with the Excelsior Brass Band and the jazz dance bands of <a href="/wiki/Sam_Morgan_(musician)" title="Sam Morgan (musician)">Sam Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/George_Lewis_(clarinetist)" title="George Lewis (clarinetist)">George Lewis</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Casimir_(clarinetist)" title="John Casimir (clarinetist)">John Casimir</a>. After playing on riverboats on the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_River" title="Mississippi River">Mississippi River</a>, he went to Chicago in 1927 to join <a href="/wiki/Joe_%22King%22_Oliver" class="mw-redirect" title="Joe "King" Oliver">King Oliver</a>'s band.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around this time he made recordings on the side in the band of <a href="/wiki/Clarence_Williams_(musician)" title="Clarence Williams (musician)">Clarence Williams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After returning briefly to New Orleans, where he worked with the bands of <a href="/wiki/Fate_Marable" title="Fate Marable">Fate Marable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fats_Pichon" title="Fats Pichon">Fats Pichon</a>, he was offered a recording contract with <a href="/wiki/Victor_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Records">Victor Records</a><sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and went to New York City, where he joined the <a href="/wiki/Luis_Russell" title="Luis Russell">Luis Russell</a> band, which was later fronted by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a> in the late 1930s.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1929, Allen joined Luis Russell's Orchestra, in which he was a featured soloist until 1932.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He took part in recording sessions that year organized by <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Condon" title="Eddie Condon">Eddie Condon</a>, some of which featured <a href="/wiki/Fats_Waller" title="Fats Waller">Fats Waller</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Dorsey" title="Tommy Dorsey">Tommy Dorsey</a>. He also made a series of recordings in late 1931 with <a href="/wiki/Don_Redman" title="Don Redman">Don Redman</a>. In 1932 he recorded with the <a href="/wiki/Rhythmakers" title="Rhythmakers">Rhythmakers</a> in New York City. In 1933 he joined <a href="/wiki/Fletcher_Henderson" title="Fletcher Henderson">Fletcher Henderson</a>'s Orchestra, in which he stayed until 1934. He played with <a href="/wiki/Lucky_Millinder" title="Lucky Millinder">Lucky Millinder</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Mills_Blue_Rhythm_Band" title="Mills Blue Rhythm Band">Mills Blue Rhythm Band</a> from 1934 to 1937, when he returned to Russell for three more years, by which time Russell's orchestra was fronted by <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Allen seldom received any solo space on recordings with Armstrong,<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was prominently featured in the band's live performances, even getting billing as a featured attraction.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>As a bandleader, Allen recorded for <a href="/wiki/Victor_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Records">Victor</a> from 1929 through 1930. He made a series of recordings as co-leader with <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a> in 1933 for <a href="/wiki/American_Record_Corporation" title="American Record Corporation">ARC</a> (Banner, Melotone, Oriole, Perfect, Romeo, etc.) and continued as an ARC recording artist through 1935, when he was moved to ARC's <a href="/wiki/Vocalion_Records" title="Vocalion Records">Vocalion</a> label for a popular series of <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing</a> records from 1935 through late 1937. A number of these were popular at the time. He did a solitary session for <a href="/wiki/Decca_Records" title="Decca Records">Decca</a> in 1940 and two sessions for <a href="/wiki/OKeh_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="OKeh Records">OKeh</a> in 1941. After World War II, he recorded for <a href="/wiki/Brunswick_Records" title="Brunswick Records">Brunswick</a> in 1944, <a href="/wiki/Victor_Records" class="mw-redirect" title="Victor Records">Victor</a> in 1946, and <a href="/wiki/Apollo_Records_(1944)" title="Apollo Records (1944)">Apollo</a> in 1947.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (October 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Allen continued making many recordings under his own name and also with Fats Waller and <a href="/wiki/Jelly_Roll_Morton" title="Jelly Roll Morton">Jelly Roll Morton</a> and accompanied such vocalists as <a href="/wiki/Victoria_Spivey" title="Victoria Spivey">Victoria Spivey</a> and <a href="/wiki/Billie_Holiday" title="Billie Holiday">Billie Holiday</a>. After a short stint with <a href="/wiki/Benny_Goodman" title="Benny Goodman">Benny Goodman</a>, Allen began to lead his own band at the <a href="/wiki/Famous_Door" title="Famous Door">Famous Door</a> in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>. He then toured with the band around the United States into the late 1950s.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (November 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>In December 1957, Allen appeared with <a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Russell" title="Pee Wee Russell">Pee Wee Russell</a> on the television program <i><a href="/wiki/Sound_Of_Jazz" class="mw-redirect" title="Sound Of Jazz">Sound Of Jazz</a></i>. In 1959, he made his first tour of Europe when he joined <a href="/wiki/Kid_Ory" title="Kid Ory">Kid Ory</a>'s band. He led the house band at New York's <a href="/wiki/Metropole_Cafe" title="Metropole Cafe">Metropole Cafe</a> from 1954, until the club ceased its jazz policy in 1965. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Allen&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Personal life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Allen was <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2023)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p><p>Allen returned to working under his own name and made numerous tours of the United States and Europe. He was diagnosed with <a href="/wiki/Pancreatic_cancer" title="Pancreatic cancer">pancreatic cancer</a> in late 1966. After undergoing surgery, he made a final tour of England, which ended six weeks before his death, on April 17, 1967, in New York City.<sup id="cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is buried, in the newer section of <a href="/wiki/Saint_Raymond%27s_Cemetery_(Bronx)" title="Saint Raymond's Cemetery (Bronx)">Saint Raymond's Cemetery</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Bronx" class="mw-redirect" title="Bronx">Bronx</a>, in grave 52 of section 15.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was survived by his widow, Pearly May, and a son, Henry Allen III. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Style_and_influence">Style and influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Allen&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Style and influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Allen's trumpet style has been described by <a href="/wiki/Joachim-Ernst_Berendt" title="Joachim-Ernst Berendt">Joachim-Ernst Berendt</a> and others as the first to fully incorporate the innovations of <a href="/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, and to develop an emphasis on phrasing.<sup id="cite_ref-Berendt_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Berendt-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-RCJE_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RCJE-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Allen's recordings received much favorable attention. His versatility is shown by his winning of <i><a href="/wiki/DownBeat" title="DownBeat">DownBeat</a></i> awards in both the traditional jazz and the modern jazz categories. </p><p>In 2022, the <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans_City_Council" title="New Orleans City Council">New Orleans City Council</a> voted to rename "Slidell Street" in Algiers to "Red Allen Way", in his honor.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Allen&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Discography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><i>Red Allen, Kid Ory & Jack Teagarden at Newport</i> (<a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a>, 1957)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ride,_Red,_Ride_in_Hi-Fi" title="Ride, Red, Ride in Hi-Fi">Ride, Red, Ride in Hi-Fi</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/RCA_Victor" class="mw-redirect" title="RCA Victor">RCA Victor</a>, 1957), later re released as <i>World on a String</i> (1991)</li> <li><i>Mr. Allen</i> (Swingville, 1962)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_College_Concert" title="The College Concert">The College Concert</a></i> with <a href="/wiki/Pee_Wee_Russell" title="Pee Wee Russell">Pee Wee Russell</a> (<a href="/wiki/Impulse!_Records" title="Impulse! Records">Impulse!</a>, 1966)</li> <li><i>Jazz Standards and Warhorses</i>, with <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a> (Jass Records, CD version 1987)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/1929%E2%80%931933" title="1929–1933">1929–1933</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Chronological_Classics" title="Chronological Classics">Chronological Classics</a> 540, 1990)</li></ul> <p><b>With <a href="/wiki/Langston_Hughes" title="Langston Hughes">Langston Hughes</a></b> </p> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Weary_Blues_(album)" title="Weary Blues (album)">Weary Blues</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/MGM_Distribution" title="MGM Distribution">MGM</a>, 1959)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Red_Allen&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Berendt-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Berendt_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Berendt_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFBerendt1976" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Joachim-Ernst_Berendt" title="Joachim-Ernst Berendt">Berendt, Joachim</a> (1976). <i>The Jazz Book</i>. 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London: Penguin Books. p. 9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-141-00646-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-141-00646-3"><bdi>0-141-00646-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Richard+Cook%27s+Jazz+Encyclopedia&rft.place=London&rft.pages=9&rft.pub=Penguin+Books&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0-141-00646-3&rft.aulast=Cook&rft.aufirst=Richard&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ARed+Allen" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-LarkinJazz-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-LarkinJazz_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFColin_Larkin1992" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Colin_Larkin_(writer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Colin Larkin (writer)">Colin Larkin</a>, ed. 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