"Thomas Red Kelly - Jazz bass player and Seattle-area bandleader who played with stars including Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington, and who ran a mock campaign for governor of Washington in 1976 which actually earned 8 percent of the vote, died of complications from cancer in Tacoma, Washington on June 9 at the age of 76." . . . . . . . .