{"id":30,"date":"2015-11-17T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2015-11-22T20:39:21","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T20:39:21","slug":"about-rich-crandall","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/about\/about-rich-crandall\/","title":{"rendered":"About Rich Crandall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"79\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/about\/about-rich-crandall\/rich-7\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg?fit=3264%2C2176&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3264,2176\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;E8800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1134862597&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35.9&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;151&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0166389351082&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rich 7\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg?fit=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-79 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg?resize=940%2C627\" alt=\"Rich 7\" width=\"940\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.music-formats.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Rich-7.jpg?w=2280 2280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rich began his island life in Honolulu, Hawaii almost forty years ago, but he was born and raised in Chicago and educated in the Midwest\u2014undergrad at Lawrence University in Appleton and grad school at Western Michigan University. His father\u2019s love for traditional and big band jazz got Rich started on trumpet, but it was piano that really <em>caught<\/em> him. He free-lanced through jazz scenes, leading his own groups in Appleton, Chicago, Michigan, and San Francisco before Honolulu. Cherished memories include music-making with greats like Freddie Hubbard, Sadao Watanabe, Frank Morgan, Ernestine Anderson, Trummy Young, Henry Mancini, Ira Sullivan, Rufus Reid, Kim Richmond, et al. But it\u2019s life in the islands that\u2019s assured Rich\u2019s musical individuality. It\u2019s there he composed most of his original works, many available on his recordings\u2014<em>Solo Travel<\/em>, <em>Soothsayer<\/em>, <em>\u2018Til Further Notice<\/em>, <em>Last Takes With Rory<\/em>, and<em> Shine <\/em>as well as<em>\u00a0Malaika\u00a0<\/em>(both featuring his songstress daughter Angela). Community efforts in Hawaii include his statewide \u201cJazz-In-The-Schools\u201d program and a decade of Tuesday night Studio 6 jazz sessions at the Musicians\u2019 Association of Hawaii. Rich\u2019s new solo piano album of standards, <em>Buddy Nowhere 1930s<\/em>, is now released and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdbaby.com\/cd\/richcrandall1\" target=\"_blank\">available online<\/a> or by mail order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Rich began his island life in Honolulu, Hawaii almost forty years ago, but he was born and raised in Chicago and educated in the Midwest\u2014undergrad at Lawrence University in Appleton and grad school at Western Michigan University. 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