On December 23,
Come to Downtown Minneapolis for the Shopping,
and Warm Up to Some Jazz and Award Winning Poetry at Dakota
Try Something Different for Holiday Music ...
Reviews:
•“Silent Night” in a rolling 5/4 time with haunting minor harmonies,
•“Little Drummer Boy” as a slow acoustic funk with Vince Guaraldi harmonies,
•“We Three Kings” in upbeat 5/4 time with Middle Eastern rhythms,
•“Angels We Have Heard on High” in 7/4 time,
•“Jingle Bells” as a Guaraldi ballad,
•“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” as a Paul Desmond-Dave Brubeck light swing, and
•Poetry from a Minnesota Book Award Recipient
It’s an off Beat Holiday with
the Larry McDonough Quartet
Thu. Dec. 23, 7-11 pm.
Free Holiday Jazz and Poetry Show
Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant
1010 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis (612-332-1010)
Drummer Chaz Draper
Back from performing with legendary saxophonist and composer Benny Golson and trumpeter Duane Eubanks, and playing at the Clifford
Brown Jazz Festival in Delaware, McDonough also
will perform selections from his CD, "Tuscarora: Short Stories for Jazz Piano," which contains original
music, as well as arrangements
of jazz, popular, religious, and
historical music in different
times signatures and harmonies.
It is dedicated to the memory
of Paul and Sheila Wellstone and
benefits Wellstone Action.
They also will perform pieces
from the group’s upcoming CD,
“Simple Gifts,” including
“Dame la Mano” (Red River Valley) and “Simple Gifts,” both in 7/4, Aja by Steely Dan and My Favorite Things, both in 5/4, and “Elie’s Theme” and others pieces from the Fingersteps Project, in which McDonough has written jazz pieces based on melodies written by children with disabilities, including McDonough’s daughter Rosie, using adaptive computer hardware and software.
Saxophonist Richard Terrill also will read from his poetry compilation “Coming Late to Rachmaninoff” (University of Tampa Press, 2003), for which he received the 2004 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Terrill also wrote “Fakebook: Improvisations on a Journey Back to Jazz” (New York: Limelight Editions, 2000), a memoir of his experiences as a musician.
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“Wonderful, Herbie Hancock-Bill Evan-ish.” Leigh Kamman, The Jazz Image, Minnesota Public Radio 91.1 FM
“Wonderful, Herbie Hancock-Bill Evan-ish.” Leigh Kamman, The Jazz Image, Minnesota Public Radio 91.1 FM•“Larry McDonough is an original much in the tradition of Dave Brubeck, and McDonough's piano stylings are intimate and innovative.” Lee Prosser, Jazz Review.
“Larry McDonough is an original much in the tradition of Dave Brubeck, and McDonough's piano stylings are intimate and innovative.” Lee Prosser, Jazz Review.On the Radio:
Sat. Dec. 18, 10:30 and 11:30 pm., The Jazz Image with Leigh Kamman, KNOW 91.1 FM Minnesota Public Radio, St. Paul, http://minnesota.publicradio.org (web). Larry will be on the show at 10:30, and Minnesota Book Award Recipient (in Poetry for “Coming Late to Rachmaninoff”) Richard Terrill will be on at 11:30.Tue. Dec. 21, 7:30 pm., On the Radio, The Larry Wolf Show, KBEM Jazz 88.5 FM Radio, Minneapolis, KBEM.Studio@mpls.k12.mn.us (email), www.jazz88fm.com (web). Appearing with Minnesota Book Award Recipient (in Poetry for “Coming Late to Rachmaninoff”) and Saxophonist Richard Terrill, discussing the upcoming CD, “Simple Gifts,” and the December 23 Dakota Holiday Jazz and Poetry Show. Larry McDonough Jazz
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