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Friday, April 25, 8:00-10:00 p.m., CD Release for Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series, with the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ), Larry McDonough, piano and vocals, Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry, Greg Stinson, bass, and Dean drums, Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Families and students are welcome. $15.
In 2023, the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ) and the Aster Café in Minneapolis, MN, embarked on an ambitious project: a monthly series with LMQ performing classic jazz of a different artist each month. With all of the LMQ members (Larry McDonough, piano and voice; Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry; Greg Stinson, acoustic and electric bass and guitar; and Dean White, drums) being busy working musicians, rehearsals would be limited to once a month for each new show. Each month, McDonough wrote a new set of arrangements for the next show.
The result was 12 months of concerts covering the music of Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Miles Davis, Jim Hall and Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Geraldo Vespar, the Sidemen of Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock, culminating with the LMQ holiday show Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays. Guests included trumpeter Josh May, flutist Carol Bergquist, bassist Matt Senjem, and guitarist Joel Shapira. McDonough recorded each show, and now we have Larry McDonough Quartet Live, Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series.
Video Sample: A hot bop version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN_kfhoSaOU
Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series
Reservations
Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
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●Thursday, April 17, 12:00 p.m., Carol Bergquist, flute, and Jill Cronk Schendel, piano, performing before, during and after the service, St. Michael's Lutheran Church ELCA, 1660 County Road B W., Roseville.
Maundy Thursday Service
Berceuse for Flute and Piano - Carol Bergquist, flute, and Jill Cronk Schendel, piano
#Berceuse
#PhilippeGaubert
●Saturday, April 19, Saturday, 7:00 p.m., Carol Bergquist, flute, at the Basilica of Saint Mary for the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Celebration of the Resurrection,at the Basilica of Saint Mary, 1600 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, in-person and streaming.
●Wednesday, April 23, Private Event
●Friday, April 25, 8:00-10:00 p.m., CD Release for Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series, with the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ), Larry McDonough, piano and vocals, Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry, Greg Stinson, bass, and Dean drums, Aster Cafe, 125 SE Main Street, Minneapolis, MN 55414. Families and students are welcome. $15.
In 2023, the Larry McDonough Quartet (LMQ) and the Aster Café in Minneapolis, MN, embarked on an ambitious project: a monthly series with LMQ performing classic jazz of a different artist each month. With all of the LMQ members (Larry McDonough, piano and voice; Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry; Greg Stinson, acoustic and electric bass and guitar; and Dean White, drums) being busy working musicians, rehearsals would be limited to once a month for each new show. Each month, McDonough wrote a new set of arrangements for the next show.
The result was 12 months of concerts covering the music of Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Tony Bennett and Bill Evans, Wayne Shorter, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Miles Davis, Jim Hall and Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Geraldo Vespar, the Sidemen of Miles Davis, and Herbie Hancock, culminating with the LMQ holiday show Festivus and Other Twisted Holidays. Guests included trumpeter Josh May, flutist Carol Bergquist, bassist Matt Senjem, and guitarist Joel Shapira. McDonough recorded each show, and now we have Larry McDonough Quartet Live, Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series.
Video Sample: A hot bop version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series
Reservations
Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot!
On Line:
Facebook Event
●Saturday, April 26, 2:00-3:15 p.m., Fusebox, a new progressive jazz fusion trio performing odd-metered originals, with Larry McDonough, keyboard, Craig Matarrese, bass, and Eron Woods, drums, at Studio 20 at Cadenza Music, 149 Snelling Ave. N., Saint Paul, MN 55104 (Snelling & Selby Avenues).
Fusebox
Sample - Snot Boogie
Cadenza Event
Facebook Event
●Saturday, April 26, 5:00-8:00 p.m., Larry McDonough, piano and voice, Ingredients Café, 4725 Highway 61 North, White Bear Lake, 651.426.6611. Larry McDonough returns to Ingredients Café. Expect music of Bill Evans, Tony Bennett, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, and originals, and great food.
Very Early Performed by Larry McDonough
Ingredients Café
Reservations recommended!
●Sunday, April 27, 10:00 a.m., Larry McDonough, piano and vocals, and Richard Terrill, saxes, First Unitarian Universalist Church of Rochester, 1727 Walden Lane SW, Rochester, MN 55902-0901.
●Thursday, May 1, 7:30 p.m., Quantum Mechanics Album Release with JoJo Green and Poor Lemuel, The Zen Arcade Stage at The Hook and Ladder's Mission Room, 3010 Minnehaha ave, Suite #420, Minneapolis, MN, 55406.
Quantum Mechanics features the powerful vocals of Cara Lucille, award winning jazz artist Larry McDonough on keys, Eli Hoehn on electric banjo, Zach Sproles on guitar, Mark Krogmann on bass & Eric Bunde on drums. Supported by funk/soul titans JOJO Green and harmony-driven indie rockers Poor Lemuel, it’s a prime opportunity to spin up your particles and stretch your branes! https://www.facebook.com/quantummechanicsband
Watch "Quantum Entanglement" by the Quantum Mechanics, performed at the White Squirrel in Saint Paul, MN, video by Carol Bergquist.
Tickets $10.00
California
●Sunday, May 11, 7:00 p.m., Larry McDonough, piano and voice, performing “Conversations with Bill Evans” at The Back Room, 1984 Bonita Ave., Berkeley, CA 94704, 510-654-3808.
Larry McDonough returns to the Bay Area to perform “Conversations with Bill Evans.” The show filled clubs around the country. Larry will perform music from his recent CD "Kind of Bill on the Palace Grounds," a new live recording covering the career of Bill Evans, and more!
Evans performed on the Miles Davis album "Kind of Blue" in 1959, the best-selling jazz album ever. His trio with bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian introduced simultaneous improvisation and is regarded as a seminal modern jazz trio. He received 31 Grammy nominations and seven awards, and was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame.
