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Article: Interview

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 ...

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Article: Live Review

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 ...

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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 ...

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Big Band Swing

By Doug Lawrence

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

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Article: Album Review

Doug Lawrence & His Orchestra: Big Band Swing

Read "Big Band Swing" reviewed by Jack Bowers

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 ...

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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).

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Article: Album Review

Doug Lawrence: Streetwise

Read "Streetwise" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
February 13, 2003

There is always more room for a good tenor-guitar-organ combo. Tenor saxophonist Doug Lawrence leads such a combo for his Alltribe debut. A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, Lawrence has been performing since childhood. He currently leads the Doug Lawrence Orchestra and has recorded widely as a sideman and as a leader. For Streetwise, organist Dan ...

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High Heel Sneakers

By Doug Lawrence

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Released: 1999

Article: Album Review

Doug Lawrence: High Heel Sneakers

Read "High Heel Sneakers" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
February 1, 1999

There's a joyful spirit to the playing of Texas tenor Doug Lawrence (b. 1956). His energy and bright ideas are contagious. And if High Heel Sneakers, his second Fable Records release following last year's successful Soul Carnival , is any indication, his music is too. Lawrence, on the scene for two decades and only ...

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