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Zilner Randolph
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Draw up a list of some of the top jazz artists of all time, and the legend featured in this recording would likely be at the top of that list. Louis [more]
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This four-CD set does its best to summarize Louis Armstrong's career during 1923-1934, reissuing 81 of his finest recordings. The problem is that virtually [more]
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In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series of [more]
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In conjunction with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns' ten-part 2000 PBS special, Columbia/Legacy and Verve teamed up to issue a special series of reissues covering much of [more]
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"Armstrong jovially balanced his calling as a musician with his job as an entertainer, applying his virtuosity while showing audiences a good time." —New York Times
In conjunction with the release of Ken Burns' ten-part, 19-hour epic PBS documentary {#Jazz}, Columbia issued 22 single-disc compilations devoted to jazz's most significant [more]
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While Louis Armstrong didn't invent jazz, he certainly shaped it in his own image, personalizing it, popularizing it, and giving it a template to follow into the modern [more]
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This 23-track compilation contains alternate takes of many of Armstrong's signature songs from this period on one album. The songs include
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Biography
- Born Jan 28th 1899
- Died Feb 2nd 1994
Zilner Randolph was more important as a teacher than as a musician although his involvement with Louis Armstrong during a brief period has insured him a place in the jazz history books. Randolph studied at the Biddle University in North Carolina, the Kreuger Conservatory in St. Louis and the Wisconsin Conservatory in Milwaukee. Randolph played in Milwaukee-based territory bands including four years with Bernie Young. After moving to Chicago, he became the musical director for Louis Armstrong during Mar. 1931-Mar. 1932 and a bit in 1933 and 1935. The first association resulted in some notable recordings in which Randolph is heard in the band that backs Armstrong. Randolph, whose song "Old Man Mose" became famous due to Armstrong (who recorded it in 1935), also played with Carroll Dickerson and Dave Peyton in 1934 and led his own orchestra in Chicago during the second half of the 30's. He contributed arrangements to a lot of big bands (including Earl Hines, Woody Herman, Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington) and led his own quartet in the 1940's but never recorded as a leader. Randolph was primarily a teacher from the 1940's on although he did record on piano in 1951. Zilner Randolph, who lived to be 95, was one of the last of the Louis Armstrong alumni of the 1930's. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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