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Don Randi (b. 25 February 1937) is an American keyboard player, bandleader and songwriter. He has performed on innumerable recordings, including many as a session musician and member of "The Wrecking Crew", as well as releasing his own jazz records. He owns The Baked Potato night club in Studio City, California. Born Don Schwartz in New York City and raised in the Catskill Mountains, he received a training in classical music. After his father's death, he and his mother moved to Los Angeles in 1954, and the following year he started work at a record distribution company where he heard and became influenced by jazz musicians, particularly Horace Silver. He began his career as a professional pianist and keyboard player in 1956, gradually establishing a reputation as a leading session musician. In the early 1960s, he was a major contributor, as musician and arranger, to producer Phil Spector's "Wall of Sound". He also played piano on "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'," by Nancy Sinatra, and The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations". He claims to have played on over three hundred hit records, working with musicians such as Linda Ronstadt, Quincy Jones, Cannonball Adderley, Herb Alpert, Sarah Vaughan and Frank Zappa. He appeared on, and wrote for, many motion picture and television soundtracks, commercials and pop albums during the 1960s and 1970s. He also recorded albums of piano jazz music under his own name and as the leader of a trio with Leroy Vinnegar and Mel Lewis. These include

The Edge: David Axelrod at Capitol Records 1966-1970
Best Jazz Piano Standards 100 [Disc 1]
RIGHT ON! 5
Best Jazz 100 - Piano Standards disc-1
Best Jazz Piano Standards 100 [Disc 4]
The Edge
Lee Hazlewood Industries: There's a Dream I've Been Saving (1966-1971)

Bermuda Triangle (Remastered)
Best Jazz Piano Standards 100 Disc-4

Quest… Bermuda Triangle

Don Randi & The Baked Potato Band

Don Randi Trio. Feelin' Like Blues / Where Do We Go from Here?