Randy Sandke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Randy Sandke

American musician

Date of Birth: 23-May-1949

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: jazz guitarist, jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Randy Sandke

  • Jay Randall Sandke (born May 5, 1949 in Chicago, Illinois) is a jazz trumpeter and guitarist. While a student at Indiana University in 1968, he and Michael Brecker started a jazz-rock band that performed at the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival.
  • He was invited to be a member of the backing band for rock singer Janis Joplin, but a throat problem kept him from performing.
  • Despite a successful operation on his throat, he gave up the trumpet, moved to New York City, and played guitar for the next ten years.
  • When he returned to the trumpet, he became a member of the Nighthawks Orchestra led by Vince Giordano, followed by membership in Bechet's Legacy led by Bob Wilber.
  • From 1984–1985, he was part of Benny Goodman's last band.Sandke remarks in the liner notes to The Subway Ballet: "Okay – I worked with Benny Goodman, but so did Fats Navarro and Herbie Hancock and nobody refers to them as 'swing musicians.' ...Being thus labeled is somewhat akin to being called a child molester in that the tag never seems to go away, and both can be equally deleterious to one's career." He has recorded over twenty albums as a leader, ranging from revisitings of music from the 1920s and 1930s to explorations of contemporary idioms in the company Michael Brecker, Kenny Barron, Marty Ehrlich, Bill Charlap, and Uri Caine.
  • He became interested in exploring dissonant, nonstandard harmonies that lie outside of conventional triadic harmony, creating a musical theory of what he calls "metatonality", a harmonic system outlined in his book Harmony for a New Millennium.He has led the New York All-Stars with Dan Barrett and Ken Peplowski, the Metatonal Band with Marvin Smith and Ted Rosenthal, and has done arrangements for the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra.
  • His writings include a method book about his "metatonal" approach to harmony.
  • He has a brother, Jordan Sandke, who is a trumpeter.
  • Both brothers played in the Widespread Depression Jazz Orchestra.His albums include Trumpet After Dark, a jazz-with-strings album that uses Renaissance viols instead of modern violins.
  • Inside Out and Outside In bring together mainstream jazz musicians such as Ken Peplowski and avant-garde jazz musicians Ray Anderson and Uri Caine.
  • His work appeared in the movies The Cotton Club, Bullets over Broadway, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.

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