Don Randi
Don Randi ( born February 25, 1937 in New York City as Don Schwartz) is an American pianist and composer in the field of jazz, pop and classical music.
Since the 1960s, he worked with a variety of well-known rock, pop, jazz and soul musicians. Among others, he has participated in the hit Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys or played for ABBA.
Randi lives and works for a long time in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles. He is known there as the owner of Studio City Club and the Baked Potato. He also achieved fame as a longtime bandleader Quest playing in fusion and crossover style. Growing up in the Catskill Mountains of New York, Don Randi was thirteen years classical music lessons. In 1954 he moved to the Los Angeles area. Since then, he is a busy studio musician; for numerous film and television productions he wrote soundtracks and played with it, as well as for advertising and pop albums. Randi took in 1960 under his own name for the label World Pacific on, for Verve Records (1962 in a trio with Leroy Vinnegar and Mel Lewis), and for the Palomar label, Reprise, Capitol, Poppy, Sheffield Lab and Headfirst. Don Randi occurs in the Baked Potato on a regular basis with Quest.
He has worked with so many other artists such as Carole King, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Quincy Jones, Simon and Garfunkel, Frank Zappa and Frank Sinatra.