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John Burnett Swing Orchestra: West of State Street/East of Harlem
by Ken Dryden
England native John Burnett has been a part of the Chicago jazz scene for some time. He presently hosts a weekday jazz radio program on WDCB and is also the conductor of his own Swing Orchestra (formed in 1999) which focuses on big band music of the '40s. Recorded live early last year ...
Unconventional Wisdom
By Randy Sandke
Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: Just One of Those Things; Ev'rytime We Say Goodbye; Meta Blue; New Orleans; The Best Thing For You; Nicki's Journey; Django's Dream; Little Bix; Chega de Saudade; December Down; For All We Know; We're in Love; Funkarello; Toyland.
Randy Sandke: Unconventional Wisdom
by Francis Lo Kee
Listening to a tune like “Chega de Saudade," the ninth tune on trumpeter Randy Sandke's Unconventional Wisdom, there's the feeling that this quartet session is from a recorded concert: the honest, joyous drive of the rhythm section, the trumpet singing Jobim's melody and the guitar supporting it with clear harmonies that are rhythmically in sync. Yet, ...
The Subway Ballet
By Randy Sandke
Label: Evening Star Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Watch the Closing Doors; Dance of the Downtown Punks;
Electriglide; Dance of the Wall Street Brokers; Steel Wheels; Dance of the Hassidic Diamond Merchants; Making Tracks; The Blind Beggar Encounters the Korean Peddler; Momentum; Dance of the Midtown Career Women; Straphanging; Pas de Deux; Express Stop; 125th Street; Red Hook Blues; Happy Birthday Berlin; How Did It Get So Late; Realization.
Randy Sandke and the Metatonal Big Band: The Subway Ballet
by Ken Dryden
Trumpeter Randy Sandke, considered a mainstream jazz stylist, reveals another side on this release, compiled from two sessions recorded about fifteen years apart. The Subway Ballet is a wild suite scored for big band (substituting vibes and xylophone for piano) that utilizes a metatonal harmonic approach, frequently sounding like snippets of music written ...
The Mystic Trumpeter
By Randy Sandke
Label: Evening Star Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: The Mystic Trumpeter (Liquid Prelude, The Walks of Paradise, Sounds of Smiting Steel, The
Flames That Heal The World, Distant Thunder, Enough To Merely Be); Symphony For Six
(Allegro, Adagio, Scherzo, Rondo).
Trumpet After Dark
By Randy Sandke
Label: Evening Star Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Quiet Is The Night; Nocturne; Being Human; Goodbye For Now; Star Crossed Lovers; Etude
In E; Le Jour Ou La Colombe; Monk's Mood; A Blues Serenade; Can She Excuse My Wrongs;
Lullabye For Karen; Blues For Sandy; Lush Life; Soul Eyes.
Randy Sandke: Outside In, The Mystic Trumpeter, Trumpet after Dark
by Andrew Velez
Randy Sandke Outside In Evening Star Records 2005 The pleasures of Outside In should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with trumpeter Randy Sandke. Adventurous and forward thinking, he also incorporates the best of traditional jazz. The opener, “Ganjan, is an opportunity for him and bandmates Wycliffe Gordon, Marty ...
Randy Sandke and the Metatonal Band: The Mystic Trumpeter
by Michael P. Gladstone
Trumpeter and composer Randy Sandke has recorded 22 albums as a leader since 1985 and has appeared on countless others in largely a mainstream and postwar swing setting, and of late he has dabbled in outside jazz. The Mystic Trumpeter may be Sandke's most ambitious effort to date. The album is presented as “metatonal" music, which ...
The Randy Sandke Quartet: Trumpet After Dark
by Michael P. Gladstone
There is much to admire in this album, subtitled Jazz In A Meditative Mood. Trumpeter Randy Sandke has been actively recording since 1985, largely in a postwar swing and mainstream style, although Mainstream Meets the New Music, his 2002 venture into free jazz, raised some eyebrows and garnered new fans. Sandke is comfortable working in a ...
