Results for "Doug Lawrence"

Doug Lawrence

Born: October 11, 1956

Count Basie Orchestra at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

by Patricia Myers
February 1, 2016

Count Basie Orchestra Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts Scottsdale, Arizona December 19, 2015 The Count Basie Orchestra solidified its 80-year reputation for strong swingability, inventive solo segments and supreme section cohesion during two back-to-back concerts on a tour in support of the band's first-ever Christmas-theme album. But those seasonal charts ...

Buddy Rich: The Beat Goes On

by Jack Bowers
June 11, 2014

Was Buddy Rich really “the world's greatest drummer"? The answer to that speculative question is debatable, of course, and opinions may vary, as they no doubt do on what kind of a person (or persons) he was when not weaving his particular brand of magic behind a drum kit. Buddy's remarkable talents as a drummer and ...

Caution: Brief Column Ahead...

by Jack Bowers
June 4, 2012

This may be one of the shortest columns I've written in fourteen-plus years at All About Jazz. The fact is, not much has happened this month in our little corner of big band jazz, and there is almost nothing to report. About all we can do is look forward to events on the horizon: Jazz Under ...

Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2010

Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...

Highlights from the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival

by Rich Bradway
September 6, 2010

The annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival took place this past weekend at the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox, Massachusetts. Rich Bradway, the new media guru at Boston Symphony Orchestra was our roving reporter capturing highlights from the festival with a handheld and presented new video featurettes on Saturday ...

Doug Lawrence Session at Vernon's Jazz Club

May 15, 2010

Vernon's Jazz Club The Doug Lawrence Session Wednesday nights 7:00-- 10:30 6844 4th Street NW Village de Los Ranchos, Albuquerque Just $5 general, $2 for musicians! Appetizers available. Come down for the DOUG LAWRENCE SESSION Wednesday evenings from 7:00-10:30 pm. Bring your axe- you ...

Big Band Swing

By Doug Lawrence

Label: DLM
Released: 2006
Track listing: Jackson County Jubilee; I

Doug Lawrence & His Orchestra: Big Band Swing

by Jack Bowers
July 25, 2006

When one is employed as a sideman with the Count Basie Orchestra, as tenor saxophonist Doug Lawrence has been for several years, he learns a thing or two about Big Band Swing. Lawrence has also worked for Benny Goodman, Buck Clayton, Grover Mitchell, Frank Wess, Loren Schoenberg, Tony Corbiscello and the Smithsonian, DMP and Manhattan and ...

Streetwise

By Doug Lawrence

Label: Alltribe
Released: 2003
Track listing: Say Little Mama Say; Mellow Gravy; Mr. Clean; A Portrait of Jenny; What For; Spanyola; Hello Young Lovers.(Total Time 48:33).