Larry McDonough Quartet
Larry McDonough, Piano and Vocals
Richard Terrill, Saxes
Greg Stinson, Bass
Dean White, Drums
Guests:
Steve Kenny, Trumpet
Rosie McDonough, African Drum
Black Dog Coffee and Wine Bar
320 Prince Street
The corner of Prince (4th Street) and Broadway
Lowertown, St. Paul
Come see an acoustic first set of Jobin, Porter, Bernstein, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Richard Rogers, Coltrane, and originals, and an electric jazz rock fusion second set of Spinal Tap, Brubeck, Sting, Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, and more originals.
At 7:00 p.m. there will be a special opening set by the Will Kjeer Summer Band with Will Kjeer, piano, Kenny Horst, drums, and Dave Brattain, saxophones. There will also be some other special guests.
Photography by Andrea Canter, JazzInk
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 and
recorded with international jazz artists
Benny Golson, Lew Soloff, Steve Swallow,
Fred Wesley, Duane Eubanks, Steve Khan,
and Rob Mounsey, as well as a who’s who
of local jazz artists. While in music school,
her performed in student ensembles with
Clark Terry, Phil Woods, and Thad Jones.
He was inducted into the Minnesota Rock
Country Hall of Fame for his work in the
group Danny’s Reasons. He has released
eight CDs and DVDs as a leader, including
“Simple Gifts,” which reached number 29
on the CMJ Jazz Chart and has been played
on hundreds of stations around the country and throughout the world. 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. Larry directs pro bono legal services for the poor at Dorsey & Whitney.
Richard Terrill, sax player and 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. Richard
teaches creative writing at Minnesota State
University, Mankato.
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
current career in telecommunications
technology. LMQ performs Greg Stinson
compositions from the Nova Contemporary
Jazz Orchestra recording ADance to Be-bop.
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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Steve Kenny studied at the University
of Wisconsin-River Falls. Among many
projects, he has performed with Pete
Whitman’s Departure Point, The Five
with Dave Karr, What Would Monk
Do?, and the Cedar Avenue Big
Band. He is best known as co-founder
of the Illicit Sextet, an ensemble
popular in the 1990s before taking a
long hiatus and now back in action
with a new CD released in 2013 and
a Mainstage appearance at the Twin Cities Jazz festival. In addition to heading the Wednesday night early show at the Artists’ Quarter for five years, Steve has received a Minnesota Music Award, West Bank School of Music Jazz Composer award, and multiple honors as Best Jazz Trumpet at the Eau Claire Jazz Festival. With support from a state arts board grant, he curated the 10-week “All Originals” jazz series at Studio Z in Summer 2014, and in Fall 2014 launched the weekly Saturday Night Jazz at the Black Dog series, which will run at least through 2015. In 2014, Steve’s production company, Illicit Productions, released a vinyl LP debut recording for Group 47, and a first ever “Twin Cities Jazz Sampler Volume One” CD that included tracks from 13 recently released recordings from originals-focused Twin Cities ensembles. In the early 1990s, Steve produced a multi-media concert/tribute to Chet Baker presented by the Twin Cities Jazz Society’s main concert series. The core Baker tribute band, dubbed “Let’s get Lost” from that project, went on to perform a long sequence of late-night gigs at the now defunct Café Solo in downtown Minneapolis.
Rosie McDonough has performed music since
her early years both with her father, Larry
McDonough, as well as with Highland Friendship
Club, a social group she attends for adults and
children with disabilities, and the St. Paul Bridge
View and Focus Beyond public schools she
attended for persons with disabilities. She now
works at TSE, a nonprofit company that supports
people with developmental and other intellectual
disabilities. Her present musical focus is on
African drum.
Contact information:
Larry McDonough
651-398-8053
