Larry Mcdonough and Richard Terrill at Beaner’s Central

Name: Larry Mcdonough and Richard Terrill at Beaner’s Central
Start: 2014-12-27
End: 2014-12-27
Location: Beaner’s Central

Where

Beaner’s Central
324 N. Central Avenue
Duluth, MN
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When

Sat, December 27, 2014
8:00 pm

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LMT “Angels, Kings, My Favorite Things” Show, December 27, 4-6 pm, Beaner’s Central, 324 N. Central Avenue, Duluth
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Angels.html

Question: What do Christmas, Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Ludwig van Beethoven, Mr. McGoo, Paul Simon, Ornette Coleman, Shakers, the Middle East, award-winning American poetry, and the art of international illustrator Eric Hanson have in common?

Answer: The Holiday CD, “Angels, Kings, My Favorite Things”

Saturday, December 27, 4-6 pm
Larry McDonough and Richard Terrill
Beaner’s Central, 324 N. Central Avenue, Duluth, MN 55807
http://www.beanerscentral.com/

Larry McDonough, piano and vocals
Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry

Families and students are welcome. LMT will perform selections from the CD “Angels, Kings, My Favorite Things” along with seasonal poetry by award-winning poet and saxman Richard Terrill, as well as other LMT favorites like Stonehenge by Spinal Tap.

“Angels, Kings, My Favorite Things” was released in December 2013 with great reviews, radio airplay, and performances in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and even Paris, France. The CD release at the Artist’s Quarter (AQ) was one of the last CD releases held there before the AQ closed. http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Angels.html

Holiday Service Performance:

Sunday December 28, 10:30 am, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Duluth
835 W. College Street, Duluth http://www.uuduluth.org/

Andrea Canter of Jazz Ink said of “Angels, Kings, My Favorite Things”:

“We've been enjoying the music of Larry McDonough for a number of years, so it's about time we spend the holidays with this creative pianist/vocalist/bandleader/composer. Here Larry has compiled favorites from his repertoire of traditional holiday fare as well as more modern works often associated with the season, presented in solo, duo and quartet contexts and all blessed with Larry's trademarks of odd time signatures and inventive harmonies. Not your mother's holiday album, McDonough leads off with a tribal groove on ‘My Favorite Things,’ enhanced by echoes of Coltrane from saxman Richard Terrill, then goes solo in transforming ‘Jingle Bells’ into an elegant jazz ballad.

Other popular seasonal songs are given unfamiliar treatments-- the dark shades of gray on ‘Silent Night’ and ‘Simple Gifts’; a delicate piano/sax duo reharmonizing ‘Little Drummer Boy’ (sans drums!); a reconsidered ‘Ode to Joy’ that sneaks in a snippet of Bill Evans' ‘Waltz for Debby’; a ‘We Three Kings’ that musically leans toward Bethlehem; and an ‘Angels We Have Heard On High’ with staggering rhythms. The pop inclusions are no less satisfying, from Richard Terrill's haunting sax on the minor waltz arrangement of ‘Alone in the World’ from Mr. McGoo’s Christmas Carol to the quartet's free-wheeling, ‘Paul Simon Meets Ornette Coleman’ rendition of ‘Scarborough Fair.’ Spending the holidays with Larry McDonough is like the best of family reunions--getting reacquainted with relatives who seem so different from how we remember them, and so much more interesting.”

Angels, Kings, My Favorite Things
Larry McDonough Jazz
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Angels.html
ITunes
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/angels-kings-my-favorite-things/id768992058
CD Baby
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/larrymcdonoughquartet12

Larry McDonough is a St. Paul jazz pianist and singer, 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. 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. He directs pro bono legal services for the poor at Dorsey & Whitney.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Biography.html

Sax player and Minnesota State University Mankato English Professor Richard Terrill received the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry, for his poetry compilation “Coming Late to Rachmaninoff” (University of Tampa Press, 2003). Terrill 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, Terrill 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. He teaches creative writing at Minnesota State University, Mankato. http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Dick.html

Contact Larry McDonough at 651-398-8053 [email protected]
http://www.larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com

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