Red McKenzie
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Red McKenzie (William McKenzie) (October 14, 1899, St. Louis, Missouri - February 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 <a href="https://www.last.fm/mus
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- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- St. Louis
- Place of death
- New York City
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- singer
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- Red McKenzie, ca. Oct. 1946 (William P. Gottlieb 05761).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1899-10-14
- date of death
- 1948-02-07
- cause of death
- liver cirrhosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
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