Larry McDonough Quartet CD Release for Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series
Friday, April 25, 2025
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Aster Cafรฉ
125 SE Main Street
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Larry McDonough Quartet
Larry McDonough, piano, vocals, and arrangements
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry
Greg Stinson, bass and arrangements
Dean White, drums
Families and students are welcome.
$15 Cover.
Reservations
Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
On Line:
https://www.exploretock.com/astercafe/experience/538653/friday-42525-larry-mcdonough-quartet-album-release-15-cover
Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/1313775336565225/
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In 2023, the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ) and the Aster Cafรฉ in Minneapolis, MN, embarked on an ambitious project: a monthly series with LMQ performing classic jazz of a different artist each month. With all of the LMQ members (Larry McDonough, piano and voice; Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry; Greg Stinson, acoustic and electric bass and guitar; and Dean White, drums) being busy working musicians, rehearsals would be limited to once a month for each new show. Each month, McDonough wrote a new set of arrangements for the next show.
The result was 12 months of concerts covering the music of Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Antรดnio Carlos Jobim, Miles Davis, Jim Hall and Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Geraldo Vespar, the Sidemen of Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock, culminating with the LMQ holiday show Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays. Guests included trumpeter Josh May, flutist Carol Bergquist, bassist Matt Senjem, and guitarist Joel Shapira. McDonough recorded each show, and now we have Larry McDonough Quartet Live, Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series.
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Video
A hot bop version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_kfhoSaOU
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Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series
https://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/BestoftheAsterClassicJazzSeries.html
1. Chet Baker - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
2. Chick Corea - Crystal Silence
3. Tony Bennett and Bill Evans - Some Other Time
4. Wayne Shorter - Footprints
5. Antรดnio Carlos Jobim - How Insensitive
6. Listening to Miles Davis (Spoken Word)
7. Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader
8. Jim Hall and Bill Evans - All Across the City
9. Dave Brubeck - Brandenburg Gate
10. Larry McDonough - Blue Dolphin
11. Geraldo Vespar - Estudos Populares Brasileiros No. 10
12. Coltrane (Spoken Word)
13. John Coltrane - Impressions
14. Herbie Hancock - Dolphin Dance
15. Festivus - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
"The quartet does more than replay the songbook. They relive it, reinterpret it for a new generation of jazz listeners, making then into now." - Eric Hanson, Author, Artist, and Jazz Historian.
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CD Credits:
Live Aster Cafรฉ PA sound mixing: Johnny Balmer, Theo Galetka #2, and Cara Mackenzie Hagstrom-Skalnek #14.
Recorded monthly in 2023 at the Aster Cafรฉ and CD mixed and mastered by Larry McDonough.
http://www.larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com
CD Duplication by Quickturn Duplication, Edina, MN.
Art and cover design by Eric Hanson.
Copy editing by Carol Bergquist.
CD design by Larry McDonough, Palace Art and Music Gallery.
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The Larry McDonough Quartet
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 whoโs who of local jazz artists, and was inducted into the Minnesota Rock Country Hall of Fame for his work in the group Dannyโs Reasons. His awards include the American Composers Forum Showcase Award for the composition โStrait of Gibraltar.โ He has released eleven CDs and DVDs as a leader. His recent CDs are โKind of Bill on the Palace Grounds, Marking 40 Years since the Death of Bill Evans,โ playing on jazz radio stations and streaming services around the country, and โIntermodulating Undercurrents Live at the Kos: The Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall.โ The two-CD set โAlice in Stonehenge and other AcoustElectric Adventuresโ has played on radio stations and streaming services around the world and charted #18 on the Roots Music Reportโs Top 50 Jazz Album Chart. โSimple Giftsโ 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 Funkinโ Right, classic rock in Whiskey Burn, indie-rock in HiFi, and punk in Saint Small.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Biography.html
Richard Terrill, sax player and retired Minnesota State University Mankato English Professor, received the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry for his poetry compilation โComing Late to Rachmaninoffโ (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 Draperโs 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 Bachelorโs 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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Larry McDonough
Larry McDonough Jazz
651-398-8053
mcdon056@umn.edu
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com
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