Larry McDonough Quartet CD Release for Best of the Aster Classic Jazz Series

Larry McDonough Quartet Larry McDonough, piano, vocals, and arrangements Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry Greg Stinson, bass and arrangements Dean White, drums Families and students are welcome. $15 Cover. Reservations Call 612-379-3138 to save your spot! On Line: https://www.exploretock.com/astercafe/experience/538653/friday-42525-larry-mcdonough-quartet-album-release-15-cover Facebook Event https://www.facebook.com/events/1313775336565225/ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬? ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ 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 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 https://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/BestoftheAsterClassicJazzSeries.html 1. Chet Baker - Softly as in a Morning Sunrise 2. Chick Corea - Crystal Silence 3. Tony Bennett and Bill Evans - Some Other Time 4. Wayne Shorter - Footprints 5. Antônio Carlos Jobim - How Insensitive 6. Listening to Miles Davis (Spoken Word) 7. Miles Davis - Freddie Freeloader 8. Jim Hall and Bill Evans - All Across the City 9. Dave Brubeck - Brandenburg Gate 10. Larry McDonough - Blue Dolphin 11. Geraldo Vespar - Estudos Populares Brasileiros No. 10 12. Coltrane (Spoken Word) 13. John Coltrane - Impressions 14. Herbie Hancock - Dolphin Dance 15. Festivus - God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen "The quartet does more than replay the songbook. They relive it, reinterpret it for a new generation of jazz listeners, making then into now." - Eric Hanson, Author, Artist, and Jazz Historian. ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ The Larry McDonough Quartet 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 recent 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, and punk in Saint Small. http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/Biography.html ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ ♪ ♬ Larry McDonough Larry McDonough Jazz 651-398-8053 [email protected] http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com https://www.facebook.com/LarryMcDonoughJazz/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKz_nYdKTNUPhIGk44jCb_Q

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