Editing Red Rodney (section)

{{short description|American jazz trumpeter}}
{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->
| name                = Red Rodney
| image               = Red Rodney, ca. June 1946 (William P. Gottlieb).jpg
| caption             = Red Rodney, c. June 1946
| background       = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name       = Robert Chudnick
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1927|9|27}}
| birth_place        = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|1994|5|27|1927|9|27}}
| death_place       = [[Boynton Beach, Florida]]
| genre               = [[Jazz]]
| occupation        = Musician
| instrument        = Trumpet
| years_active     = 1942–1994
| label                = [[Savoy Records|Savoy]], [[Fantasy Records|Fantasy]], [[Muse Records|Muse]], [[Sonet Records|Sonet]], [[Steeplechase Records|Steeplechase]], [[Chesky Records|Chesky]]
| associated_acts = [[Charlie Parker]], [[Ira Sullivan]]
}}
[[File:Rich Matteson, Red Rodney, Ira Sullivan.jpg|thumb|right|250px|[[Rich Matteson]], Red Rodney, and [[Ira Sullivan]] at the Village Jazz Lounge in Walt Disney World; photo: Laura Kolb]]

'''Robert Roland Chudnick''' (September 27, 1927 &ndash; May 27, 1994),<ref name="Watrous"/> known professionally as '''Red Rodney''', was an American jazz trumpeter.