Randy Sandke
Randall "Randy" Sandke (born May 23, 1949 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American mainstream jazz trumpeter .
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Sandke was introduced to jazz by his brother Jordan (* 1946), who also plays the trumpet, and in high school he played in a band with the later jazz musicians Ray Anderson and George Lewis . He studied at Roosevelt University in Chicago (with Reinhold Schilke of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ), Indiana University in Bloomington and later (before taking up the trumpet again) at Columbia University . With his fellow student (in Bloomington) Randy Brecker , he played in a jazz rock band in 1968, with whom he performed at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. He was also offered to play in Janis Joplin's band , but this was prevented by a throat disease that forced him to give up the trumpet. He then had odd jobs in New York for over ten years , where he also performed and recorded as a guitarist. A trumpeter convinced him to try this instrument again, and he returned to the jazz scene as a trumpeter in the late 1970s. In the 1980s he played with the "Nighthawks" by Vince Giordano , played with Bob Wilber and in the last Benny Goodman band under the direction of the old master 1985 to 1986. He then played with Buck Clayton , the Newport All Stars of George Wein, among others , Jon Hendricks , the Worlds Greatest Jazz Band, Mel Tormé , Benny Carter , Dizzy Gillespie , Joe Williams , but also Uri Caine and Michael Brecker and in their own quintet with Ken Peplowski . He has recorded several albums under his own name, first “New York Stories” in 1985, mostly for the labels Jazzology, Concord and Nagel heyer records.
At the beginning of the 1990s a Bix-Beiderbecke project began with the octet “New York All Stars” (based on original scores of the time, including a world tour in 1993), which he also used in a series of recordings on nagel heyer records Louis Armstrongs or Count Basies . On the other hand, his research into unusual harmonies (which he called “Metatonality”) in the avant-garde context was reflected in the book “Harmony for a New Millennium” (Second Floor Music 2001).
He has also contributed to the soundtrack of films such as Woody Allen's " Bullets Over Broadway " and " Cotton Club " directed by Francis Ford Coppola .
literature
- Kunzler "Jazz Lexicon", 2002
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Sandke, Randy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sandke, Randall; Sandke, Jay Randall |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American mainstream jazz trumpeter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago , Illinois |