The Larry McDonough and Joel Shapira Quintet and Duo Perform the Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall for Saturday Night Jazz at KJ's Hideaway
Saturday, December 10, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
KJ's Hideaway
408 St. Peter St., Saint Paul
(the old location for the Artist’s Quarter (AQ) and Vieux Carré)
$20 cover.
Tickets for this KJ’s Hideaway Event
https://kjshideaway.com/event/larry-mcdonough-quartet-with-and-opening-set-by-larry-mcdonough-and-joel-shapira/
Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/969742541080468/
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The Larry McDonough and Joel Shapira Quintet and Duo Perform the Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall for Saturday Night Jazz at KJ's Hideaway
Saturday, December 10, 8:00-11:00 p.m.
KJ's Hideaway
408 St. Peter St., Saint Paul
(the old location for the Artist’s Quarter (AQ) and Vieux Carré)
$20 cover.
Tickets for this KJ’s Hideaway Event
https://kjshideaway.com/event/larry-mcdonough-quartet-with-and-opening-set-by-larry-mcdonough-and-joel-shapira/
Facebook Event
https://www.facebook.com/events/969742541080468/
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First set: At 8:00 p.m., Larry McDonough and with Joel Shapira will perform music from their new CD Intermodulating Undercurrents Live at the Kos: The Music of Bill Evans and Jim Hall, http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/IntermodulatingUndercurrentsLiveatTheKos.html.
Second set: At 9:30 p.m., the Larry McDonough and Joel Shapira Quintet will perform music from Kind of Bill on the Palace Grounds, Marking 40 Years since the Death of Bill Evans http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/KindofBillonthePalaceGrounds-CD.html along with music from the Bill Evans and Jim Hall Quintet album Interplay. The group includes Larry McDonough, piano and voice, Joel Shapira, guitar, Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry, Greg Stinson, bass, and Nathan Norman, drums.
Come see and hear this timeless music that packed the Dakota in August!
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In 1962, pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall met to record the first of two of the most influential jazz recordings. Piano and guitar duos are rare, as their similarities can make it difficult for the musicians to stay out of each other’s way, but Evans and Hall made their similarities their strength. Both had used space as a key element in their music, moving away from the unrelenting intensity of bebop.
“Undercurrent” from 1962 contained a mix of jazz standards, including a rare up tempo version of “My Funny Valentine,” along with the Hall original “Romain.” In his November 26, 1962 review for Down Beat magazine jazz critic Pete Welding stated: "This collaboration between Evans and Hall has resulted in some of the most beautiful, thoroughly ingratiating music it has been my pleasure to hear.”
Four years later Evans and Halls recorded the second and last of their duo albums. “Intermodulation” continued the mix of standards with originals “Turn Out the Stars” from Evans and “All Across the City” from Hall. Writing for Allmusic, music critic Michael G. Nastos wrote of the album: "A duet recording between pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Jim Hall is one that should retain high expectations to match melodic and harmonic intimacies with brilliant spontaneous musicianship. Where this recording delivers that supposition is in the details and intricacy with which Evans and Hall work, guided by simple framings of standard songs made into personal statements that include no small amounts of innovation.”
Evans died in 1980 at age 50, and they never had the opportunity to record again. Hall played at Evans’ funeral. Hall died in 2013 at age 83. Larry McDonough saw Evans perform in the 1970s, and Joel Shapira met Hall when he lived in New York City.
In the first set, Larry and Joel will perform pieces from both recordings, along with pieces that Evans and Hall performed separately that they might have included in another recording had Bill Evans lived longer, and pieces written by Larry and Joel in the spirit of Evans and Hall.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/IntermodulatingUndercurrentsLiveatTheKos.html
In the second set, they are joined by Richard Terrill, saxes and poetry, Greg Stinson, bass, and Nathan Norman, drums. They will perform music from the Bill Evans and Jim Hall Quintet album Interplay, along with selections from the Larry McDonough Quartet recording Kind of Bill on the Palace Grounds, Marking 40 Years since the Death of Bill Evans.
http://larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com/KindofBillonthePalaceGrounds-CD.html
Get your jazz CDs for holiday presents at the show!
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Contact information:
Larry McDonough
Larry McDonough Jazz
http://www.larrymcdonoughjazz.homestead.com
mcdon056@umn.edu
651-398-8053
Joel Shapira
Joel Shapira Productions
https://www.joelshapira.com/
joelshapira@msn.com
651-235-1829
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