Jazz Articles about Randy Sandke

Harry Allen: Love Songs Live!

by Dave Nathan
January 1, 2001

Nagel Heyer has put together an album of romantic love songs performed by the Coleman Hawkins influenced, Stan Getz, Zoot Sims like tenor horn of Harry Allen. All of the tracks were compiled from previously released recordings of live concerts, mostly in Hamburg where Allen was on the stage with a variety of first rate jazz musicians. Given that virtually every song is played in that slow, ballad tempo, this album could just as well have been titled Music for ...

Randy Sandke and the New York All Stars: The Re-Discovered Louis and Bix

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2000

It's obvious from the outset that this album is a labor of love by co-producers George Avakian and Randy Sandke, as well as the very talented musicians who come together on this set. Putting together the album required a good deal of tenacious research, the almost coincidental getting together of individuals who had like minds about the wonderful material, the willingness of the German (shame on the US record companies) label Nagel Heyer to record and release the material, and ...

Oliver Jackson: The Last Great Concert

by Dave Nathan
November 1, 2000

The late Oliver Jackson had one foot in each of the major jazz camps, bop and swing. Out of Detroit, he performed with some of the first rate boppers from that city like Tommy Flanagan and Paul Chambers as well as working with Eddie Locke and Yusef Lateef. But he also played with some of the great swingsters and traditional jazzers like Lionel Hampton, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Shavers and Buck Clayton.

This 1993 live concert was Jackson's last before his ...

Randy Sandke: Awakening

by Robert Spencer
May 1, 1998

Awakening is a release from Concord's classical division, Concerto, and does it ever sound like one. It isn't quite “Wynton plays Handel," but here trumpeter Randy Sandke fronts the Bulgarian National Symphony (Ljubomir Denev, conductor) in a program of mostly originals (plus a little Ellingtonia) played by what sounds like a full orchestra. The orchestra is a bit generous with the brass and winds, to be sure, but the overall sound is as full – as gigantic – as in ...