Calendar

Sept. 23, 8 p.m.
All Originals Jazz Series: Larry McDonough Quartet

Sept. 30, 7 p.m.
All Originals Jazz Series: Davu Seru’s No Territory Band + Quo Vadis

Oct. 6-8
Zeitgeist: Saint Paul Food Opera

Oct. 9, 3 p.m.
ACF NextNotes Lab Concert

Oct. 11, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Oct. 14, 6-10 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Mary Ellen Childs - EAR + NOSE

Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Spring Roll - Sylvaine Hélary Quartet

Oct. 21-22
Matt Slocum Trio

Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m.
Jim Falbo: Guitar Reveries album release concert

Nov. 5, 8 p.m.
The Arkanauts present Li Anni Maraviglosi: The Musical!

Nov. 10, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: NO EXIT Ensemble

Nov. 11-13
Here and There: Zeitgeist & NO EXIT Ensemble

Nov. 16, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Nov. 26, 8 p.m.
crow with no mouth presents Dante Boon

Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.
113 Collective presents Bill Solomon & Mike Truesdell

Dec. 10, 8 p.m.
crow with no mouth presents Reinier van Houdt

Dec. 12, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Dec. 15, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Dameun Strange

Jan. 6, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Horton, Clausen, Miller, & Porwoll-Lee

Feb. 5, 4 p.m.
113 Collective presents Fonema Consort & Anthony Cheung

Feb. 24-25
RenegadeEnsemble

Feb. 17-18
Zeitgeist: Playing it Close to Home

Mar. 31-April 1
RenegadeEnsemble

April 6-9
Zeitgeist Early Music Festival: Lou Harrison

May 4-6
Zeitgeist & Spitting Image Collective

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Jazz at Studio Z: MANCRUSH

June 10, 7:30 p.m.
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June 15, 7 p.m.
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June 18, 7 p.m.
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July 7, 7 p.m.
Mill City String Quartet: Music of Tom Patterson

July 8, 8 p.m.
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July 12, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

July 29, 8 p.m.
All Originals Jazz Series: Music of Will Kjeer

Aug. 7, 7 p.m.
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Aug. 11, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Zeitgeist-Composer Workshop

Aug. 15, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Aug. 19, 8 p.m.
All Originals Jazz Series: Rodney Ruckus

Aug. 27, 7 p.m.
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Sept. 8-10
Zeitgeist: For the Birds CD Release Concert

Sept. 14, 7 p.m.
The New Ruckus Composer Night

Sept. 15, 6 p.m.
Lowertown Listening Session: Francesca Anderegg

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ALL ORIGINALS JAZZ SERIES
LARRY MCDONOUGH QUARTET

Sept. 23  •  8 p.m.   •  $10
​Details

The Larry McDonough Quartet takes a break from its popular shows “Bill Evans and Tony Bennett - 40 Years Later,”  “Born to Be Kind of Blue: The Music of Chet Baker and Miles Davis,” and “AcoustElectric” to perform two sets entirely of compositions of pianist Larry McDonough and bassist Greg Stinson. 

Pianist, singer, and composer Larry McDonough’s trademarks are unique harmonies and rhythms in both arrangements and compositions, often in the uncommon meters of 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. He has sprinkled his compositions in his eight recordings, ranging from ballads Lady Day (CD “Simple Gifts”) and Tuscarora (CDs “Simple Gifts” & “Tuscarora”) to the rhythmically and harmonically intense odd metered Sirocco 7/4 (CD “Solitude” and DVD “Live at Minnesota Connection”), Coming Late to Rachmaninoff 11/4 (CD “Solitude”), and Tango para Maria Luiza 9/4 (CD “My Favorite Things”). 

For All Originals, LMQ will perform Funkability 7/4 (another SpecAbilities piece), and premier Blue Dolphin 7/4 (a 7 bar blues based on a fragment of Dolphin Dance), Thrice As 3/4 (jazz fusion melody and chords based on thirds), and Twelfth Tri 12/4 (12 tone row with bars divided into 7/4 and 5/4), as well as a sample of previously performed compositions.

​Larry McDonough Quartet
Larry McDonough, piano and vocals
Richard Terrill, saxes
Greg Stinson, bass
Dean White, drums

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