A drummer and vibraphone player, [Chuck] Redd has presided over holiday “Jazz Jams” at the Kennedy Center since 2006, succeeding bassist William “Keter” Betts. In an email Wednesday to The Associated Press, Redd said he pulled out of the concert in the wake of the renaming.


I told my sister that she can’t bring her son to my house for Christmas because he is an insufferable MAGGOT. She came without him and he was PO’d. I hope he doesn’t sue me for a million dollars.