Randy Sandke

Trumpeter, Musical Artist

1949 –

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Who is Randy Sandke?

Randy Sandke is a jazz trumpeter and guitarist.

In an interview with Larry Kart he said: "I got into jazz kind of chronologically, beginning with Bix and Louis, then Dizzy, Clifford Brown, Miles, and Freddie Hubbard. I also studied at Roosevelt University with Renold Schilke, a legendary teacher and maker of trumpets who was with the Chicago Symphony for years". His high-school band included future luminaries Ray Anderson and George Lewis; when he went to Indiana University, he met Michael Brecker and formed a jazz-rock band. He was offered a job with Janis Joplin, but a hernia of the throat had by then made it impossible for him to play.

He spent the 1970s playing guitar in New York, until he was encouraged by a trumpeter friend to take up his original instrument again. He became associated with the traditional jazz scene, working with Vince Giordano and Bob Wilber; it was Wilber who got him a job with Benny Goodman, which lasted from 1984 until Goodman's death in 1986.

Sandke has remained strongly associated with swing music, and he is an authority on the music of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. He is a member of the Bix Beiderbecke Memorial society. In the Kart interview he states:

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Born
May 23, 1949
Chicago
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  • Sandke, Randy
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on July 23, 2013

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