Dennis Sandole

Dennis Sandole ( born September 29, 1913 in Philadelphia as Dennis Sandoli, † October 29, 2000 ) was an American jazz guitarist, music teacher and composer, who had a great influence as a teacher of many jazz musicians.

Sandole began as a child self-taught to play guitar and joined by his younger brother Adolph Sandole in the 1930s in clubs of his hometown. His career as a professional musician, he began in the bands of Ray McKinley, Tommy Dorsey, Boyd Raeburn, Gene Krupa, and Charlie Barnet. He later moved to California to work as a studio musician. He then participated in recordings and film soundtracks, including in Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. Around 1945 he returned to Philadelphia, where he worked as a music teacher from the early 1950s; yet he was also a mentor of John Coltrane, as he taught him music theory and the music of other cultures. His guitar students included Harry Leahey, Jim Hall, Pat Martino, Joe Diorio and Dale Bruning, who later became a teacher of Bill Frisell. Even musicians such as James Moody, Michael Brecker, Sumi Tonooka, Cannonball Adderley, Art Farmer, Reggie Workman, Tommy Flanagan, George Benson, Matthew Shipp and Bobby Zankel had lessons with Sandole. In 1981 he published the textbook Guitar Lore ( Theodore Presser Company). Under his own name he took for the first time in 1956 an album (Modern Music From Philadelphia ) on; In 1999, nor for Cadence Jazz Records The Dennis Sandole Project, excerpts from his jazz, ballet, opera " Evenin ' Is Cryin' " contained, which he had composed during the 1960s and 1970s.