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It took a German recording team to enable trumpeter/arranger Randy Sandke to assemble this all-American, 12-piece ensemble for a panorama of New York-inspired tunes, recorded in the Big Apple in the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse as part of the 1999 JVC Jazz Festival. In doing so, he raided the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as several independent history-minded players in the area, and emerged with a band that fires off the numbers with crisp virtuosity in any idiom called for. Thankfully, there is also more than enough gusto in the playing, due in no small part to the live festival recording situation. "The Harlem Medley," a lengthy leadoff stream of delicacies from the land of Ellingtonia, gets close enough to the Ellington sound to convey the idea without being slavishly imitative or ghostly. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra boys know their Ellington craft well and apply the plunger mutes accordingly. From there, the band doubles back to Dixieland, works its way up to swing, and slides without a glitch into bebop ("Scrapple From the Apple"), a Mingus shuffle blues ("Nostalgia in Times Square"), transitional Coltrane ("Grand Central"), and some Monk ("52nd Street Theme"), before being deposited back in Harlem by -- naturally -- the "'A' Train." In between the main tour stops, Concord Jazz teammates guitarist Howard Alden and clarinetist Ken Peplowski serve up another of their fluid duets on Irving Berlin's "Slumming on Park Avenue." Other high points include clarinetist Allan Vaché wailing in the trad flagwaver "Chinatown" and trumpeters Sandke and Warren Vaché duking it out on "42nd Street." In all, a well-recorded souvenir of what sounds like a heartwarming local celebration.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
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Duke Ellington, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
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Duke Ellington, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Duke Ellington, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Duke Ellington, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Duke Ellington, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Duke Ellington, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Jean Schwartz, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Eugene West, Composer - James F Hanley, Composer - Ballard Mac Donald, Composer - Otis Spencer, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist - Martin Fried, Composer
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Irving Berlin, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Harry Warren, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Charlie Parker, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Charles Mingus, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
John Coltrane, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
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Thelonious Monk, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Billy Strayhorn, Composer - Randy Sandke, MainArtist
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
Album review
It took a German recording team to enable trumpeter/arranger Randy Sandke to assemble this all-American, 12-piece ensemble for a panorama of New York-inspired tunes, recorded in the Big Apple in the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse as part of the 1999 JVC Jazz Festival. In doing so, he raided the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, as well as several independent history-minded players in the area, and emerged with a band that fires off the numbers with crisp virtuosity in any idiom called for. Thankfully, there is also more than enough gusto in the playing, due in no small part to the live festival recording situation. "The Harlem Medley," a lengthy leadoff stream of delicacies from the land of Ellingtonia, gets close enough to the Ellington sound to convey the idea without being slavishly imitative or ghostly. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra boys know their Ellington craft well and apply the plunger mutes accordingly. From there, the band doubles back to Dixieland, works its way up to swing, and slides without a glitch into bebop ("Scrapple From the Apple"), a Mingus shuffle blues ("Nostalgia in Times Square"), transitional Coltrane ("Grand Central"), and some Monk ("52nd Street Theme"), before being deposited back in Harlem by -- naturally -- the "'A' Train." In between the main tour stops, Concord Jazz teammates guitarist Howard Alden and clarinetist Ken Peplowski serve up another of their fluid duets on Irving Berlin's "Slumming on Park Avenue." Other high points include clarinetist Allan Vaché wailing in the trad flagwaver "Chinatown" and trumpeters Sandke and Warren Vaché duking it out on "42nd Street." In all, a well-recorded souvenir of what sounds like a heartwarming local celebration.
© Richard S. Ginell /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 01:17:28
- Main artists: Randy Sandke
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Nagel heyer records
- Genre: Jazz
2000 Nagel heyer records 2000 Nagel heyer records
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