Let's Get Lost with Chet Baker: Film and Live Music by the Larry McDonough Quintet
Sunday, June 18, 7:00 p.m.
Parkway Theater
4814 Chicago Ave.
Minneapolis
Larry McDonough presents “Let's Get Lost with Chet Baker: Film and Live Music.” The Larry McDonough Quintet will perform a set of material of trumpeter and singer Chet Baker followed by the documentary about Baker.
Larry McDonough Quintet
Larry McDonough, piano and vocals
Josh May, trumpet
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry
Greg Stinson, bass
Dean White, drums...
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Let's Get Lost with Chet Baker: Film and Live Music by the Larry McDonough Quintet
Sunday, June 18, 7:00 p.m.
Parkway Theater
4814 Chicago Ave.
Minneapolis
Larry McDonough presents “Let's Get Lost with Chet Baker: Film and Live Music.” The Larry McDonough Quintet will perform a set of material of trumpeter and singer Chet Baker followed by the documentary about Baker.
Larry McDonough Quintet
Larry McDonough, piano and vocals
Josh May, trumpet
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry
Greg Stinson, bass
Dean White, drums
6:00 Doors open
7:00 Live music
7:45 Intermission
8:00 Movie
10:00 Go home
Parkway Event
https://www.theparkwaytheater.com/all-events/chet-baker-get-lost
Tickets
$10 Advance General Admission // $15 At The Door
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/lets-get-lost-film-live-music-by-the-larry-mcdonough-quintet-tickets-641424135857
Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/924618452100968
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Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4fqTgGR0BY
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Chet Baker
Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the "Prince of Cool". Baker earned much attention and critical praise through the 1950s, particularly for albums featuring his vocals: Chet Baker Sings (1954) and It Could Happen to You (1958). Jazz historian Dave Gelly described the promise of Baker's early career as "James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one". His well-publicized drug habit also drove his notoriety and fame. Baker was in and out of jail frequently before enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1970s and 1980s.
The Film
“Let's Get Lost” begins near the end of Baker's life, on the beaches of Santa Monica, and ends at the Cannes Film Festival. Director Bruce Weber uses these moments in the present as bookends to the historic footage contained in the bulk of the film. The documentation ranges from vintage photographs by William Claxton in 1953 to appearances on The Steve Allen Show and kitschy, low budget Italian films Baker did for quick money. Musician Michael "Flea" Balzary appears briefly, discussing trumpet playing with Baker.
It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1989. It won the Critics Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
“ Whether in his golden youth or premature old age, legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker's musical virtuosity always shone through. In this frank and revealing documentary made a year before his death, interviews, recording sessions, archive footage and home movies are used by director Bruce Weber to show a man ravaged by his long involvement with drugs.”
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Opening Live Music
Pianist and singer Larry McDonough’s Chet Baker shows have played at the Dakota and Jazz Central to full houses. For years, his quiet singing style has been compared to legendary singer and trumpeter Chet Baker. Joining Larry to complete the Chet Baker sound is Josh May on trumpet, saxman and poet Richard Terrill, bassist Greg Stinson, and drummer Dean White.
The music set will cover the range of the Chet Baker catalog, performing pieces from the 1950s, including My Funny Valentine, The Thrill Is Gone (featured on Larry’s CD “Alice in Stonehenge), You Don’t Know What Love Is, and There Will Never Be Another You, as well as songs from the end of Chet’s life, such as Softly as in a Morning Sunrise and Moon and Sand.
Larry also will discuss Chet’s life and music and their impact on jazz and Richard Terrill will read his original poems about Chet Baker. Richard is a Minnesota Book Award winner.
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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 eleven CDs and DVDs as a leader. His current CDs are “Kind of Bill on the Palace Grounds, Marking 40 Years since the Death of Bill Evans,” playing on jazz radio stations and streaming services around the country, and “Intermodulating Undercurrents Live at the Kos: The Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall.” 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. When not playing jazz, he performs punk in Saint Small, funk in Funkin’ Right, and classic rock in Whiskey Burn.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Biography.html
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Contact
Larry McDonough
Larry McDonough Jazz
651-398-8053
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https://www.facebook.com/LarryMcDonoughJazz/
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