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Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
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
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
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 ...
Doug Lawrence & His Orchestra: Big Band Swing
by Jack Bowers
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
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).
Doug Lawrence: Streetwise
by C. Michael Bailey
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 ...
Doug Lawrence: High Heel Sneakers
by Douglas Payne
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 ...
