MOMF 2024 Workshop Series (Free Event)
Bring Your Instruments and Voices:
Want to improve your improvisation skills with one of the very best? Larry will cover music theory, harmonic progressions, scales for improvisation, forming melodic motifs, listening, and transcribing solos. This will be an interactive performance session.
Where: Paddlefish Brewing, Saint Peter, MN
Note: Larry performs with the Larry McDonough Quartet for MOMF’s first Composers Showcase, Arts Center of Saint Peter, Thursday, 8:00 PM.
Date: Thursday, July 18
Time: 4:00 PM
Improvisation Workshop Materials (download for this workshop)
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 current 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