George 'Red' Callender,Songwriter ("Primrose Lane", "Pastel"), composer, conductor, arranger, bassist and tubist who, after his college education, performed as bassist within the groups of Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Nat 'King' Cole and Lester Young, later forming his own trio. Starting in the early 1950s, prior to which he helped bring about the amalgamation of L.