1047) George Sylvester "Red" Callender

George Sylvester "Red" Callender (1916 – 1992). American string bass and tuba player. He is perhaps best known as a jazz musician, but worked with an array of pop, rock and vocal acts as a member of The Wrecking Crew, a group of first-call session musicians in Los Angeles.
In the 1940s Callender recorded with Nat King Cole, Erroll Garner, Charlie Parker, Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon, Uffe Baadh [Frank Bode] and many others. After a period spent leading a trio in Hawaii, Callender returned to Los Angeles, becoming one of the first black musicians to work regularly in the commercial studios, including backing singer Linda Hayes on two singles. He made his recording debut at 19 with Louis Armstrong's band.
On his 1957 Crown LP Speaks Low, Callender was one of the earliest modern jazz tuba soloists.

- "Red Callender attributed his red hair, freckles and light-brown eyes to this lineage."  https://letsplaybassguitar.com/red-callender

- "Callender got his nickname from his red hair, a product of 18th Century ancestors who had lived in Scotland but later made their way to Barbados in the Caribbean."  https://www.latimes.com/…/la-xpm-1992-03-10-mn-3567-story.h…

- "... with ancestors who married Indian women, African women and mulatto women... I have freckles... and red hair."  https://books.google.it/books…

1044) Red Rodney

Robert Roland Chudnick (1927 – 1994), known professionally as Red Rodney. American jazz trumpeter.
He became a professional musician at 15, working in the mid-1940s for the big bands of Jerry Wald, Jimmy Dorsey, Georgie Auld, Elliot Lawrence, Benny Goodman, and Les Brown. He was inspired by hearing Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker to change his style to bebop, moving on to play with Claude Thornhill, Gene Krupa, and Woody Herman.
He accepted an invitation from Charlie Parker to join his quintet and was a member of the band from 1949–1951.

- "Rodney, distinguished by his flaming red hair, was also the first white bebop trumpeter."  https://www.britannica.com/biography/Red-Rodney

- "I’m talking about the great red headed Be-Bopper Red Rodney..."  http://boogiewoogieflu.blogspot.com/…/fascinating-life-of-a…

- "Red was a red-haired young Jewish guy from Brooklyn..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Rodney was the red-haired Jewish boy in Charlie Parker's happiest band."  https://books.google.it/books…

835) Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 – 1950). American poet and playwright. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1923, the third woman to win the award for poetry and the first since the official establishment of the Pulitzer Prize in 1922. She used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd for her prose work. The poet Richard Wilbur asserted, "She wrote some of the best sonnets of the century."

- "Famous for her red hair, green eyes and unabashed sensuality, she was known as “the gamine of Greenwich Village.”  https://lithub.com/everything-i-know-about-sex-i-learned-f…/

- "When Edna St. Vincent Millay read her poetry, crowds gathered to hear her thrilling voice and to see the tiny figure with the milky white skin and the bright red hair..."  https://www.nytimes.com/…/romantic-rebel-jazz-age-two-biogr…

- "A friend remembered seeing her red hair flying as she ran down MacDougal Street..."  https://medium.com/…/the-flame-edna-st-vincent-millays-cand…

- "Young and beautiful, red-haired with a matching fire in her heart, Edna St. Vincent Millay brilliant Bohemian poetess and playwright is an idol of the young during the 1920s through the 1940s."  https://allthingsoflife.com/edna-st-vincent-millay-brillia…/

- "Her mane of red hair and enormous gray-green eyes added to the impression of frailty, and her stubborn mouth and chin made her seem austere, almost to the point of grimness."  https://www.classicreader.com/author/147/about/

- "In January of 1918 he bedded green-eyed, red-haired Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose poem "Renascence" had burst like a bombshell on the literary scene."  http://notorc.blogspot.com/…/floyd-dell-respectable-radical…

833) Maxwell Bodenheim

Maxwell Bodenheim (1892 – 1954). American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

- "He became the red-haired wonder , the darling of the muse, and the favorite of the free-love faddists who huddled in basements of Chicago’s Bohemia."  https://hobohemiadotblog.wordpress.com/…/inside-detective-…/

- "He was young and slim with sandy red hair and pale, baleful blue eyes, and women jammed tiny candlelit rooms in the Village when he gave readings of his poems."  http://www.gadflyonline.com/…/lastwe…/bondenheimfeature.html

721) Ada "Bricktop" Smith

Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, better known as Bricktop, (1894 – 1984). American dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian, and self-described saloon-keeper who owned the nightclub Chez Bricktop in Paris from 1924 to 1961, as well as clubs in Mexico City and Rome. She has been called "...one of the most legendary and enduring figures of twentieth-century American cultural history".
She was the youngest of four children by an Irish father and a black mother.

- "It was there that saloon life caught her fancy, and where she acquired her nickname, "Bricktop," for the flaming red hair and freckles inherited from her father."  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_%22Bricktop%22_Smith

719) Red Nichols

Ernest Loring "Red" Nichols (1905 – 1965). American jazz cornettist, composer, and jazz bandleader.
Over his long career, Nichols recorded in a wide variety of musical styles, and critic Steve Leggett[1] describes him as "an expert cornet player, a solid improviser, and apparently a workaholic, since he is rumored to have appeared on over 4,000 recordings during the 1920s alone."

- "1920s' New York was full of young jazz musicians who’d rolled in from somewhere else. Ernest Loring Nichols, a redheaded kid from Utah..." http://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/…/crazy-rhythm-red-nichol…

- "Known as Red for his bright rusty crop of hair..." http://www.20sjazz.com/…/red-nichols/red-nichols--his-five-…

- "Ernest Nichols, nicknamed ' Red ' because of his red hair..." http://pop-culture.wikia.com/wiki/The_Five_Pennies


 - "Born in Ogden, Utah in 1905, Red Nichols was the red-haired son of a music teacher and multi-instrumentalist..." http://original-jazz-history.blogspot.com/…/18-red-nichols-…

91) Francis Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1896 – 1940). American fiction writer, whose works illustrate the Jazz Age. While he achieved limited success in his lifetime, he is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. Fitzgerald is considered a member of the "Lost Generation" of the 1920s. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Last Tycoon, was published posthumously. Husband of Zelda Fitzgerald.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald was a dapper, stylish man known for his fashionable clothes and dramatically parted red hair."

http://www.americansthatmatter.com/f-scott-fitzgerald/

89) Zelda Fitzgerald

Zelda Fitzgerald, née Sayre (1900 – 1948). American socialite, novelist and wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald.

"As she grew into a teen-age beauty with red-blond hair and blue-gray eyes..." 

http://alabamamoments.alabama.gov/sec45det.html