Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

“Doc” Rando, second from left, had a musical career that included gigs in his birthplace, New Orleans, and in Los Angeles and New York. Rando was a Creole musician who played both the saxophone, above, and the difficult Albert clarinet, which he clung to after other clarinetists abandoned it for a simpler instrument. He first studied music in a Catholic grammar school.

“Doc” Rando, second from left, had a musical career that included gigs in his birthplace, New Orleans, and in Los Angeles and New York. Rando was a Creole musician who played both the saxophone, above, and the difficult Albert clarinet, which he clung to after other clarinetists abandoned it for a simpler instrument. He first studied music in a Catholic grammar school.