They were fated to meet. No doubt about that. But planet jazz is sometimes so vast it is hard to cross paths at the right time - all you can do is take your time and the blue notes will do the rest - those on the Komos label, for example. Randy Kerber was born in 1958 in Encino, California, and began the piano at a very young age. At 19,he embarked on a tour alongside Bette Midler. Then came tours with Lionel Hampton and Don Ellis, two major figures in jazz, rapidly introducing him to this music on the most sumptuous of stages (North Sea Jazz, Montreux, Juan Les Pins …). He then accompanied artists such as Quincy Jones, Barbara Streisand, B.B. King, Michael Jackson, Leonard Cohen, Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox and Frank Sinatra. Yet it is in the world ofcinema that Randy Kerber made a name for himself and his fingers by participating in over one thousand (1000 !) full length features. He played the solo in Forrest Gump, was featured in Titanic, in La la Land, and notably, orchestrated Solo: A Star Wars Story, The Dark Knight, The Legend of Zorro and The Color Purple. In total, he spent forty years at the service of others until taking part in The Eddy, a series on jazz by Damien Chazelle, in which he plays Randy, the pianist. This made perfect sense - he lives in Paris.