The Larry McDonough Quintet performs the vocal and instrumental music of Chet Baker along with poems about Chet Baker and Bill Evans written by Minnesota Book Award winner and sax player Richard Terrill.
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May 2015
The Return of “Chet” to the Dakota in Minneapolis filled to bar on a rainy May night with the debut of Peabody and Emmy Award winner and former WCCO Television and Radio news
anchor and reporter Don Shelby
reading poems about Chet Baker
and Bill Evans written by Minnesota
Book Award winner and sax player
Richard Terrill.
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April 2015
“Chet - The Beautiful Music and Tragic Life of Singing Trumpeter Chet Baker” debuted at the Dakota Jazz Club and Restaurant in Minneapolis,
filling the restaurant and bar with
the music of singer and trumpeter
Chet Baker, who died in 1988 at
age 58 and never played the Dakota.
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January 2015
The debut of “Chet - The Beautiful Music and Tragic Life of Singing Trumpeter Chet Baker” at Jazz Central in Minneapolis saw one of the largest crowds ever to fill Jazz Central with the vocal and instrumental music of Chet Baker along with poems about Chet Baker and Bill Evans written by Minnesota Book Award winner and
sax player Richard Terrill, with Larry
McDonough’s daughter Rosie
McDonough on African Drum.
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