Larry McDonough Trio Performs Miles of Pianos - The Music of Miles Davis’ Pianists Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea at the Lexington
Saturday, September 28, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
The Lexington
1096 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105
https://thelexmn.com/
Larry McDonough, piano
Jim Bierma, bass
Eron Woods, drums
The Larry McDonough Trio will perform three sets of Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea. All of whom played with Miles Davis. The first set will cover the Bill Evans Trio in 1961 at the Village Vanguard, with the second set including Herbie Hancock’s music throughout the 1960s, concluding with a third set of the jazz fusion of Chick Corea’s first Return to Forever group in the 1970s. ...
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Larry McDonough Trio Performs Miles of Pianos - The Music of Miles Davis’ Pianists Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea at the Lexington
Saturday, September 28, 7:00-10:00 p.m.
The Lexington
1096 Grand Ave, St Paul, MN 55105
https://thelexmn.com/
Larry McDonough, piano
Jim Bierma, bass
Eron Woods, drums
The Larry McDonough Trio will perform three sets of Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea. All of whom played with Miles Davis. The first set will cover the Bill Evans Trio in 1961 at the Village Vanguard, with the second set including Herbie Hancock’s music throughout the 1960s, concluding with a third set of the jazz fusion of Chick Corea’s first Return to Forever group in the 1970s.
The Lexington food, drinks, service, and atmosphere are legend.
Come see and hear what Miles started.
Reservations
https://thelexmn.com/reservations/
(651) 289-4990
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Miles Davis formed many influential groups, and within them, a who’s who of the great jazz pianists of the 20th Century. Three of them were Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and Chick Corea.
Bill Evans first worked with Miles in 1958, but he left to pursue his trio concepts, returning for the recording of Kind of Blue in 1959 along with John Coltrane on tenor sax, Cannonball Adderley on alto sax, Jimmy Cobb on drums, and Paul Chambers on bass. Afterward he went on to redefine the structure of jazz trios, with the piano, bass, and drums improvising equally together in many albums, including Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby. He received 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame. Bill died in 1980 at age 51.
In 1963, Herbie Hancock joined Miles along with Ron Carter on bass, Tony Williams on drums, and Wayne Shorter on saxes. While the group recorded many noteworthy albums, such as E.S.P., Miles Smiles, Sorcerer, and Nefertiti, Herbie recorded a series of albums with his groups, including Takin' Off, Empyrean Isles, Maiden Voyage, and Speak Like a Child. He has won an Academy Award and 14 Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for his 2007 Joni Mitchell tribute album River: The Joni Letters. Herbie is 84 and still performs in various projects.
Chick Corea joined Miles in 1968 and appeared on the recordings Filles de Kilimanjaro, In a Silent Way, and Bitches Brew. Chick went on to form the group Return to Forever, first with Flora Purim on vocals, Joe Farrell on flute and soprano saxophone, Airto Moreira on drums, and Stanley Clarke on bass, on the albums Return to Forever and Light As a Feather. He continued with many jazz and classical music projects. He won 27 Grammy Awards and was nominated 72 times for the award. He died in 2021 at age 79.
Come see and hear what Miles started.
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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. 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 Funkin’ Right, classic rock in Whiskey Burn, indie-rock in HiFi, Steely Dan covers in Steely Ann, and punk in Saint Small.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Biography.html
Bassist Jim Bierma studied music at Drake University and the University of Iowa. He started playing with the Irene Myles Trio in Des Moines when he was 18 years old. He moved to the Twin Cities in 1994. Many of his jobs in town were with singers including Debbie Duncan, Charmin Michelle, and Geoff Jones. Some of his current music jobs have been with Dave Graf and Joel Shapiro. He loves playing with this trio. It provides the opportunity to play songs recorded by some of his favorite bass players such as Charlie Haden, Paul Chambers, and Scott Lafaro.
Eron Woods has been a musician and educator in the Twin Cities for over 20 years. A graduate of the University of Miami with a Jazz Performance degree, Eron worked on cruise ships and toured for several years as a drummer and musical director for circuses. He has performed with a diverse list of artists including Tony Sandler (Sandler and Young), Grant Hart (Husker Du), Pete Christlieb (Tonight Show), John “Bowser” Batman (Sha Na Na), amenco guitarist Scott “Mateo” Davies, and has published two books on percussion.
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Contact information:
Larry McDonough
Larry McDonough Jazz
651-398-8053
[email protected]
http://www.larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com
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