Name Randy Johnston | Education University of Miami | |
Role Musical Artist · randyjohnston.net Movies Randy Johnston: Live at the Smithsonian Jazz Cafe Albums People Music, Homage, Somewhere in the Night, Hit & Run, Detour Ahead Similar People Houston Person, Lou Donaldson, Nat Reeves, Akiko Tsuruga, Lonnie Smith | ||
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Randy Johnston (born 1956, Detroit, Michigan) is an American jazz guitarist.
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Johnston moved to Richmond, Virginia, at age thirteen and played rock music as a teenager. He studied at the University of Miami late in the 1970s, occasionally involved in jam sessions at a Unitarian Church with Ira Sullivan. In 1981 he moved to New York City and spent the rest of the decade working as a sideman. During these years, he accompanied Etta Jones and Houston Person.
In 1991 he signed with Muse Records; his first two albums were produced by Person and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. He has recorded steadily as a leader since then and has also played as a sideman on albums with Lionel Hampton, Lou Donaldson, Jack McDuff, Lonnie Smith, and Joey DeFrancesco.
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