The Larry McDonough Aster Sunday Jazz Series Presents
“Best of the 2023 Aster Jazz Series”
Sunday, December 3, 8:00-10:00 p.m., The Larry McDonough Aster Sunday Jazz Series Presents “Best of the 2023 Aster Jazz Series” with the Larry McDonough Quartet, at the Aster Café, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
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Families and students are welcome.
$10 Cover.
Reservations
Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
On Line:
https://www.exploretock.com/astercafe/...
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The Larry McDonough Aster Sunday Jazz Series Presents
“Best of the 2023 Aster Jazz Series”
Sunday, December 3, 8:00-10:00 p.m., The Larry McDonough Aster Sunday Jazz Series Presents “Best of the 2023 Aster Jazz Series” with the Larry McDonough Quartet, at the Aster Café, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414.
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Families and students are welcome.
$10 Cover.
Reservations
Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
On Line:
https://www.exploretock.com/astercafe/
Aster Café Event
https://astercafe.com/event/the-larry-mcdonough-aster-sunday-jazz-series-presents-best-of-the-2023-aster-jazz-series-10/
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Come for the next show of the new Larry McDonough monthly Sunday classic jazz series. The Larry McDonough Quartet will perform the music its monthly jazz series in 2023.
● January - “Chet - The Beautiful Music and Tragic Life of Singing Trumpeter Chet Baker”
● February - “Return to Return to Forever with Chick Corea”
● March - “You Must Believe in Spring - The Music of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans”
● April - “Footprints - The Music of Wayne Shorter”
● May - “Jobim! - The Music of Antônio Carlos Jobim”
● June - “Kind of Blue and Beyond”
● July - “Intermodulating Undercurrents: The Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall”
● August - “The Return of You Must Believe in Spring - The Music of Tony Bennett and Bill Evans”
● September - “Watermelon Man - The Music of Herbie Hancock”
● October - “Time Again - Brubeck and Desmond, Reimagined and Beyond”
● November - “A Side of Miles - Music of the Sidemen of Miles Davis”
Come see and hear the best of the 2023 Aster Jazz Series.
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Larry McDonough Quartet
Larry McDonough, piano and arrangements
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry
Greg Stinson, bass and arrangements
Dean White, drums
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
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 books of poetry is What Falls Away Is Always and Essentially.
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.
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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Larry McDonough
Larry McDonough Jazz
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