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Doug Perkins' "metheny Celebration" Debut Concert And Video Recording at Westport Coffee House
Courtesy of Doug Perkins | Posted on February 26, 2020
When
Thu, March 5, 2020
7:00 pm
At Door
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Musicians
Doug Perkins
percussionAbout
When I (Doug Perkins) moved to Kansas City from LA in 2015, I was excited to go to the town that Pat Metheny came from, but also surprised that many of the non-musicians had never heard of what I am sure is the most artistically and commercially successful jazz musician that has ever lived.
Since I can play from some similar musical sensibilities as Pat, I decided to have a band to play his music, and I took the name "Metheny Celebration" from modifying one of his song names "Omaha Celebration. But overall there is always a sort of joyfulness in his music, and so I selected a number of his tunes that I thought could be well represented by a quartet. ...