Red Holloway, Swinger of the Sax, Dies at 84 The cause was complications of kidney failure, his manager, Linda Knipe, said. Mr. Holloway's music career began in the 1940s and encompassed styles from bebop to fusion to R&B. His powerful, brassy notes and chunky vibrato swung, regardless of the genre. I'll play any kind of music to make a living! Mr. Holloway said in an interview with Jazz Journal International in 1982. He added, "I just try and figure out how I can make that particular type of music swing." James Wesley Holloway was born on May 31, 1927, in Helena, Ark. He received his first tenor sax at age 12. In the Army, at 19, he was the bandmaster for the Fifth Army Band. Returning to Chicago after military service, he played with Yusef Lateef, Dexter Gordon, John Mayall and Willie Dixon, among others. In the 1950s he played with Chuck Berry and Aretha Franklin, and in 1963 he formed a popular band with the organist Brother Jack McDuff. He also headlined, as he did in 1991 at the Village Vanguard in New York, and recorded more than a dozen albums, including "In the Red" and "Red Holloway and Company." In 1969 Mr. Holloway became the talent coordinator and a member of the house band at the Parisian Room in Los Angeles. He held the job for 15 years, interrupting it for tours, both national and international. Mr. Holloway, who lived in Cambria, Calif., was married and divorced three times. He is survived by three daughters, Marsha Aregullin, Lianne Holloway and Denice Holloway-Rivers; two sons, Michael Steven and John Barry Holloway; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Another son, James, died before him. Mr. Holloway continued touring and performing until last October, when he played in Europe. "We have to be on the road, but we enjoy it," he told The Los Angeles Times Magazine. Things would get too boring otherwise.