This Piedmont native and Storer College graduate helped shape jazz into what we know today. A child prodigy, he played many instruments and became one of the first significant jazz arrangers, laying the foundation for the big band sound.

Redman worked with legends such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie. He also led his own band, wrote for TV, and performed across the world.

He was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame in 2009.