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Randy Kaye

Born: May 20, 1947

Born on May 20, 1947 in Brooklyn, N.Y.,Randy grew up in a household where music was a part of life.The son of Alan Kaye, a saxophone player in many big bands and his mother Leona was also a jazz singer. Randy took uo the saxophone at a young age. When young Randy was sick with rheumatic fever Rhis father bought him a set of drums and he never looked back. Randy attended schools in Brooklyn and was a golden glove boxer,played baseball and ran track. Kaye was asked to cut his hair in high school and when he refused he was expelled. Mr. Kaye,a lifelong musician began playing professionally when he was only 15 years old! He started sitting in with players like Kenny Dorham and Roland Kirk and even sat in with Duke Ellington once

Bobby Naughton: Housatonic Rumble - Live at Charlie's Tap

by John Sharpe
May 14, 2026

Vibraphonist Bobby Naughton helms a finely attuned trio on Housatonic Rumble, a 1985 live recording drawn from previously unissued tapes discovered in his archive. Although he worked extensively with edge-loving adventurers such as Anthony Braxton and Wadada Leo Smith, and co-founded the Connecticut-based Creative Musicians' Improvisers Forum, this live set affirms a commitment to accessibility which ...

Steve Tintweiss and the Purple Why: Live at Tompkins Square Park

by Hrayr Attarian
May 10, 2026

Bassist Steve Tintweiss forged a career as a sideman to such avant-garde luminaries as tenor saxophonists Albert Ayler and Frank Wright and pianist Burton Greene.  During the late 1960s and early 1970s, he also led a few bands of rotating memberships.  Several of these were recorded live at various venues.  In the 2020s, Tintweiss started releasing ...

Housatonic Rumble - Live at Charlie's Tap

By Bobby Naughton

Label: NoBusiness Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bounce; Shepaug Strut; Calves; Nauxtagram; Housatonic Rumble; Slant; Composition 23J; Vashkar; José Josh; Pomperaug Diversions; Slant (version 2); Shepaug Strut (version 2).

Live at Tompkins Square Park

By Steve Tintweiss

Label: Inky Dot Media
Released: 2025
Track listing: Warm-up and announcement; Water; Land; N.E.S.W. Up/Down; Are You Lonely?; Waltz of Eternity; Space Rocks; California Sandra; To Angel with Love ; Ramona, I Love You; D-Drone; Y Interlude; The Purple Why.

The Jimmy Giuffre 3: Music for People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes

by Joshua Weiner
March 20, 2024

Has any musician who is not a pianist explored the trio as a basis for musical invention as thoroughly as Jimmy Giuffre? There have been many versions of the Jimmy Giuffre 3, from the initial 1950s unit with Jim Hall on guitar and either Ralph Peña on bass or Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone, through the ...

Brooklyn 1967, May 24th

By Randy Kaye

Label: Philology Jazz Records
Released: 2016
Track listing:
CD 1:
Apricot Lady; Pretty Sweet; Tears for a Year Gone By.
CD 2:
Laughter; What Little Girls Are Made Of; To Angel with Love.

Randy Kaye Quintet: Brooklyn 1967, May 24th

by Alberto Bazzurro
December 5, 2016

Ha abbastanza dell'incredibile il destino di queste matrici: registrate, verosimilmente per finire su un doppio LP, nella primavera 1967, in studio, con materiale di sicuro interesse e adeguata resa fonica, sono rimaste invece nel fatidico cassetto (o scaffale che dir si voglia) per quasi mezzo secolo, uscendo a otto anni (nessun anniversario particolare, quindi) dalla morte ...

Percussionist Randy Kaye Dies at 61

August 17, 2008

Music for People, Birds, Butterflies & Mosquitoes

By Jimmy Giuffre

Label: Candid Records
Released: 1973
Track listing: Mosquito Dance; Night Dance; Flute Song; Eternal Chant; The Bird; The Waiting; The Butterfly; The Chanting; Moonlight; Dervish; Phoenix; Feast Dance.