Boots Randolph（简介）

Boots Randolph(1927年6月3日－2007年7月3日)，
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7 Y. K+ f$ Z- h* e6 [布兹·伦道夫原名Homer Louis Louis Randolph III（荷马·路易斯·伦道夫三世），是美国萨克斯风演奏家。
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1963年被发掘，喜剧演员班尼·希尔使用他来演奏自己秀的主题曲，而耳熟能详的曲子（Yakety Sax）是其代表作。伦道夫的职业生涯里大部分主要是做为“纳什维尔之音”里最主要的一员。
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+ o) x2 b; }) k  ]4 o布兹·伦道夫1927年6月3日出生于美国肯塔基州帕迪尤卡，并在该州加迪斯成长，在印地安那州艾凡斯维尔的高中就读。
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. ~7 c) c) `+ I在第二次世界大战结束时，布兹·伦道夫在美国陆军的军乐队里担任萨克斯风、长号以及颤音琴的演奏。在结束军旅后，他从1948年到1954年在伊利诺伊州迪凯特与乐团“Dink Welch's Kopy Kats”一起进行了演出活动。他在路易维尔滞留了一段时间后回到了迪凯特，并成立自己的乐团活动。在那之后1957年他离开了迪凯特。在做为演奏家超过40年的时间里，伦道夫到过数百个会场演奏，Pop、摇滚乐、爵士、乡村音乐与各式各样的音乐家一起共同演出。他是埃尔维斯·普雷斯利（Elvis Presley）【猫王】的音乐专辑的演奏者，他还为普雷斯利的电影作品用的原声音乐里进行演奏。

布兹·伦道夫用田纳西州纳什维尔的纪念碑唱片收录，他在罗伊·奥比森（Roy Orbison）的1963年的流行歌曲“Mean Woman Blues”里演奏。其他，像是快速马车合唱团的“Little Queenie”、阿尔·贺特（Al Hirt）的“Java”、杰瑞·李·路易斯（Jerry Lee Lewis）的“Turn On Your Lovelight”、布兰达·李（Brenda Lee）的“Rockin' 'Round The Christmas Tree”等的曲子都有伦道夫的特色。他常称呼自己为蓝迪·伦道夫（Randy Randolph），并是百万乐团的一个成员。
7 g' r# I9 `% ^5 u7 r1977年，布兹·伦道夫在纳什维尔自己的俱乐部“印刷小巷”（Printers Alley）开张，并获得了好评。还有他也在电视的音乐节目“Hee Haw”活跃的演出。

6 p$ U$ L+ R9 K3 Z8 j: ^9 z1 }4 }! p5 l布兹·伦道夫在2007年7月3日时，因为脑出血在纳什维尔的医院里去世，享年80岁。他最后的作品独奏录音室专辑“A Whole New Ballgame”于2007年6月12日被发售。


Tenor saxophonist Boots Randolph was an important contributor to the Nashville sound, the set of pop-flavored textures that dominated country music in the late '50s and early '60s. He was born in Paducah, KY, but grew up in small-town Cadiz, in Trigg County. Born Homer Louis Randolph III, he acquired the nickname "Boots" in childhood from his brother Bob. Randolph began playing the trombone in school and learned several other instruments, but by the time he was 16 he had begun to focus seriously on the sax. He honed his chops as a member of the U.S. Army Band during World War II.
After the war, Randolph returned home and performed semi-professionally for some years around Indiana, Kentucky, and Illinois. In the late '50s, Jethro Burns heard him play and suggested he move to Nashville. Burns introduced Randolph to Chet Atkins, who signed him to the RCA label. Randolph also quickly made the acquaintance of Atkins rival Owen Bradley and performed on many recordings Bradley helmed as producer. Nashville's new corps of session musicians spent its leisure time in the Printer's Alley section of the city's downtown, an actual alley (between First and Second avenues) that offered entrance to various basement barrooms, and Randolph became one of the group. Like other Nashville players, he took enthusiastically to jazz and rock & roll in addition to country music.

One single, the 1963 instrumental "Yakety Sax," showed Randolph putting all these influences together and delivering an extremely catchy tune; it became his only real hit. But Randolph was a consistent seller of LP albums (with 13 charted releases) in the 1960s and 1970s; offering pleasant saxophone covers of material from various genres of music, he became a counterpart to Atkins on guitar and Floyd Cramer on piano. He moved from RCA to the Monument label in 1966. For well over a decade, in addition, he averaged 200-300 studio sessions a year on recordings made by others. The saxophone heard on Elvis Presley's later records is likely to be Randolph's.

/ @+ d* F0 {" s4 P" S$ M. w4 e! G% TIn 1977, Randolph opened a successful club of his own in Printer's Alley; it endured into the 1990s and spawned another club in the Opryland U.S.A. area. Randolph remained active as an entertainer into the 2000s, and in 1994 the original Yakety Sax album was admitted into the unofficial country canon; it was reissued by Germany's Bear Family label. Randolph suffered a brain hemorrhage in late June 2007 and remained in a coma until his passing at the age of 80 on July 3, 2007. ~ James Manheim, Rovi
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