Larry McDonough Quartet Jazz Film & Live Music Series presents The Fabulous Baker Boys
Sunday, October 6, 2024
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music // 8 pm Screening
All Ages
$10 (+taxes/fees) Advance General Admission // $15 (+taxes/fees) At The Door
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Renowned Twin Cities jazz ensemble the Larry McDonough Quartet, featuring special guest vocalist Erin Livingston, performs selections from the critically acclaimed Grammy Award-winning soundtrack of the 1989 film The Fabulous Baker Boys, with music by jazz great Dave Grusin.
Selections will include “More Than You Know,” “Shop Till You Bop,” “Ten Cents a Dance,” “Soft On Me,” “Makin' Whoopee,” “Jack’s Theme,” and “My Funny Valentine.”
Following the performance, stick around for a screening of the award-winning romantic comedy-drama starring real-life brothers Jeff Bridges and Beau Bridges as the eponymous Baker Boys and Michelle Pfeiffer as lounge singer Susie Diamond.
The Fabulous Baker Boys is a 1989 American romantic comedy-drama musical film that follows a piano duo consisting of brothers, who hire an attractive singer to help revive their waning career. After a period of success, complications ensue when the younger brother develops a romantic interest in the singer.
Musician Dave Grusin composed the film's original score, most of which were performed by Grusin on keyboards with tenor saxophonist Ernie Watts, guitarist Lee Ritenour, trumpeter Sal Marquez, bassist Brian Bromberg, and drummer Harvey Mason.
Pfeiffer dominated the 1989-1990 awards season, winning nearly every award for which she had been nominated. In addition to the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama, Pfeiffer won the National Board of Review Award for Best Actress, the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress, the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress, the Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress. Beau Bridges won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Grusin's soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Album or Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television, while his arrangement of "My Funny Valentine" (sung by Pfeiffer) won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals.
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. When not playing jazz, he performs punk in Saint Small, funk in Funkin’ Right, and classic rock in Whiskey Burn.
Richard Terrill, sax player and retired Minnesota State University Mankato English Professor, received the Minnesota Book Award for Poetry for his poetry compilation “Coming Late to Rachmaninoff” (University of Tampa Press, 2003). Richard has been performing with Larry McDonough since December 2001. He also has performed with guitarist Jim McGuire and with Chaz Draper’s Uptown Jazz Quartet. As a college student, Richard was a member of the award-winning University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Jazz Ensemble and performed with later-to-be Pat Metheny keyboardist Lyle Mays in the Lyle Mays Quartet, winner of small group honors at the Midwest College Jazz Festival. He has also worked with pianist Geoff Keezer. His current book of poetry is What Falls Away Is Always.
Bassist Greg Stinson plays in several bands around the Twin Cities. He has been the bass player in the Century College Jazz Ensemble for more than 25 years. He also plays in the CC Septet, Shorn Hortz Quintet, Paul Berger Trio, the St. Croix Jazz Ensemble, and regularly subs with the Nova Contemporary Jazz Orchestra, Classic Big Band, and Cedar Avenue Big Band. Greg spent many years playing saxophones, guitar, bass, and vocals in jazz/rock and variety bands in the area. He is an active composer/arranger with jazz charts in the books of the Century Band, Nova, CC Septet, and others. He has also written a number of choral arrangements and compositions for school and church groups. Greg was a band and choir director in public and private schools before changing to his career in telecommunications technology, now retired.
Nathan Norman attended the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, graduating in 1984. After graduating Nathan moved to Minnesota where he started his freelance jazz career. He has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra and Jennifer Holiday, and went on tour in Turin Italy with local jazz vocalist Debbie Duncan. Nathan can often be seen performing at the Dakota Jazz Club and other venues with the Travis Anderson Trio, Charmin Michelle and Joel Shapira, the Illicit Sextet, and other local artists.
Erin Livingston is an experienced jazz, blues and r&b singer, cabaret artist, lecturer and teacher, and classically trained flutist. Erin has enjoyed long-time residencies at the St. Paul Hotel, Erté & The Peacock Lounge, and Flat Earth Brewery. Her cabaret show highlighting the many facets of homelessness debuted at The Hook & Ladder Theater. She has produced and is currently performing a tribute to Helen Reddy with a ten-piece band which debuted at Crooners Supper Club. Erin also loves to share her music with senior centers and veterans’ homes around the Twin Cities. Erin earned her Associates in Classical Flute Performance from the WI Conservatory of Music while a senior in high school. She is also a certified Reiki Master Teacher and Practitioner and EFT Tapping practitioner.