The Parkway Theater’s Larry McDonough Jazz Film and Live Music Series Presents
Casablanca Jazz!
The Movie Casablanca and Live Music from the Movie by the Larry McDonough Quintet
Sunday, January 4, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Parkway Theater
4814 Chicago Ave.
Minneapolis
(612) 822-8080
The Larry McDonough Quintet will perform a set of jazz from the award-winning movie Casablanca followed by the movie. Come for one of the best movies of all time and one of the best movie soundtrack of jazz.
Larry McDonough Quintet
Larry McDonough, piano
Josh May, trumpet
Richard Terrill, saxes and spoken word
Greg Stinson, bass
Dean White, drums
6:00 Doors open
7:00 Live music
7:45 Intermission
8:00 Movie
9:40 Go home
Here is the Casablanca Official Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkL9l7qovsE
Tickets
$15 Advance General Admission // $20 At The Door
(612) 822-8080
https://www.theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/casablanca-jazz
Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/1235991451624576/
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Casablanca
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)
Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) and helping her husband (Henreid), a Czechoslovak resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.
Roger Ebert wrote in 1992: “Seeing the film over and over again, year after year, I find it never grows overfamiliar. It plays like a familiar musical album: the more I know it, the more I like it. The black-and-white cinematography has not aged as color would. The dialogue is so spare and cynical it has not grown old-fashioned. Much of the emotional effect of Casablanca is achieved by indirection. As we leave the theater, we are absolutely convinced that the only thing keeping the world from going crazy is the concerns of three little people who do, after all, amount to more than a hill of beans."
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Casablanca Soundtrack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)#Music
Many remember the song "As Time Goes By" by Herman Hupfeld as sung by Dooley Wilson from the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-p6xFMGK7g&list=RDJ-p6xFMGK7g&start_radio=1
But, there was so much more great music, including La Marseillaise, It Had to Be You, Shine, Avalon, Perfidia, The Very Thought of You, Knock on Wood, I'm Just Wild About Harry, Heaven Can Wait, Parlez-moi d'amour, and Love for Sale.
The Larry McDonough Quintet will celebrate the music from Casablanca before screening the movie.
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The Larry McDonough Quintet
Larry McDonough is an award-winning St. Paul jazz composer, pianist, singer, and teacher, performing around the world and recording with his group the Larry McDonough Quartet as well as solo, and in duos and trios. He has performed with legendary saxophonist and composer Benny Golson, Trombonist Fred Wesley, and trumpeter Duane Eubanks, as well as a who’s who of local jazz artists, and was inducted into the Minnesota Rock Country Hall of Fame for his work in the group Danny’s Reasons. His awards include the American Composers Forum Showcase Award for the composition “Strait of Gibraltar.” He has released twelve CDs and DVDs as a leader. His current CDs are “Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series” and “Intermodulating Undercurrents Live at the Kos: The Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall.” “Kind of Bill on the Palace Grounds, Marking 40 Years since the Death of Bill Evans,” was played on jazz radio stations and streaming services around the country. The two-CD set “Alice in Stonehenge and other AcoustElectric Adventures” has played on radio stations and streaming services around the world and charted #18 on the Roots Music Report’s Top 50 Jazz Album Chart. “Simple Gifts” reached number 29 on the CMJ Jazz Chart and also has been played on hundreds of stations around the country and throughout the world. His other jazz projects include Fusebox (original jazz fusion trio) and Trios Trio (classic jazz). When not playing jazz, he performs jam fusion in Quantum Mechanics, funk in Funkin’ Right, classic rock in Whiskey Burn, indie-rock in HiFi, and punk in Saint Small. He also is a lawyer and law professor selected by William Mitchell College of Law as one of “100 Who Made a Difference” over the 100-year history of the school.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Biography.html
Josh May is an up and coming trumpet player based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. He attended Bemidji State University for a B.A. In Instrumental Performance and Jazz Studies; then traveled to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to earn his Masters in Jazz Studies from Louisiana State University. Throughout his career, he's performed around the globe; in Europe, Asia, and the North Americas. Having played with many varying acts, from jazz, funk, and rock, to the symphony orchestra, Josh prides himself in being a "musical chameleon," by blending with any scenario in which he finds himself.
Richard Terrill, sax player and retired Minnesota State University Mankato English Professor, received the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry for his poetry compilation “Coming Late to Rachmaninoff” (University of Tampa Press, 2003). Richard has been performing with Larry McDonough since December 2001. He also has performed with guitarist Jim McGuire and with Chaz Draper’s Uptown Jazz Quartet. As a college student, Richard was a member of the award-winning University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Jazz Ensemble and performed with later-to-be Pat Metheny keyboardist Lyle Mays in the Lyle Mays Quartet, winner of small group honors at the Midwest College Jazz Festival. He has also worked with pianist Geoff Keezer. His current book of poetry is What Falls Away Is Always.
https://richardterrill.com/
Bassist Greg Stinson plays in several bands around the Twin Cities. He has been the bass player in the Century College Jazz Ensemble for more than 25 years. He also plays in the CC Septet, Shorn Hortz Quintet, Paul Berger Trio, the St. Croix Jazz Ensemble, and regularly subs with the Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Classic Big Band, and Cedar Avenue Big Band. Greg spent many years playing saxophones, guitar, bass, and vocals in jazz/rock and variety bands in the area. He is an active composer/arranger with jazz charts in the books of the Century Band, Nova, CC Septet, and others. He has also written a number of choral arrangements and compositions for school and church groups. Greg was a band and choir director in public and private schools before changing to his career in telecommunications technology, now retired.
Drummer Dean White grew up in Superior, Wisconsin, and played in various working bands while attending the University of Wisconsin, Superior. After graduating with a Bachelor’s degree in percussion performance, he moved to Hollywood, California, to attend Musicians Institute College of Contemporary Music. Half-way through the first year, Dean was offered a main showroom gig at the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas. He was the first drummer in the Legends In Concert Show that still performs in various incarnations across the country today. He left Las Vegas to join Tony Axtell and Toshi Hinata in Tokyo to write and play original music. Since settling back in the Twin Cities, Dean has performed with many groups, including Good, the Bad and the Funky; the Autobody Experience; Century Big Band; Nova Jazz; Big Time Jazz Orchestra; the Shorn Hortz jazz quintet; Power of 10; Jack Knife and the Sharps; Tubby Esquire; Hennessy Brothers jazz; and many others. He has also studied privately with Gordy Knudtson and his Open/Close hand technique. Dean feels blessed to be part of the rich music scene in the Twin Cities.
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Contact
Larry McDonough
Larry McDonough Jazz
651-398-8053
[email protected]
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com
https://www.facebook.com/LarryMcDonoughJazz/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKz_nYdKTNUPhIGk44jCb_Q
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