Randy Sandke

Randall " Randy " Sandke (* May 23, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American trumpeter of mainstream jazz.

Life and work

Sandke was succeeded by his brother Jordan ( born 1946 ), who also plays the trumpet, introduced to jazz and played in high school, among others with the later jazz musicians Ray Anderson and George Lewis in a band. He studied at Roosevelt University in Chicago ( Reinhold Schilke from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ), Indiana University in Bloomington and later ( before returning to the trumpet at hand ) at Columbia University. With his fellow students ( in Bloomington ) Randy Brecker in 1968 he played in a jazz-rock band, with whom he appeared on the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. He also received the offer to play in the band of Janis Joplin, but this was prevented by a throat disease that forced him to give up the trumpet. He then had over ten years of odd jobs in New York, where he appeared as a guitarist and incidentally also recorded. A trumpeter convinced him to try again with this instrument, and he returned in the late 1970s in the jazz scene as a trumpeter back. In the 1980s he played with the " Nighthawks " by Vince Giordano, played with Bob Wilber and the last Benny Goodman band, led by the doyen 1985 until 1986. Afterwards he played with Buck Clayton, the Newport All Stars by George Wein, Jon Hendricks, the Worlds Greatest Jazz Band, Mel Torme, Benny Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, but also Uri Caine and Michael Brecker and in his own quintet with Ken Peplowski. He has recorded several albums under his own name, first " New York Stories " in 1985, mainly in the Jazzology label, Concord and brand heyer records.

In the early 1990s began a Bix Beiderbecke project with the octet " New York All Stars " (after the original scores of the time, including a world tour in 1993 ), with whom he is but in a series of recordings on brand heyer records and the music Louis Armstrong Count Basie or dedicated. On the other hand, his exploration of unusual harmonies suggested ( by him " Metatonality ") on avant-garde context, inter alia, in the book " Harmony for a New Millennium " ( Second Floor Music 2001) down.

He also contributed to the soundtrack of films such as Woody Allen's " Bullets Over Broadway " and " Cotton Club " by Francis Ford Coppola.