Bill Evans, Time Remembered: The Life and Music of Bill Evans

Sunday, January 15, 2023

6 pm Doors // 7 pm Music + Screening

$10 Advance General Admission // $15 At The Door

All Ages

Ticket Purchases are Final and Non-Refundable

Larry McDonough, KBEM Jazz 88.5 FM Radio, and the Leigh Kamman Legacy Project present a screening of "Bill Evans, Time Remembered: The Life and Music of Bill Evans," along with live performance of Bill Evans' compositions by Twin Cities jazz greats, The Larry McDonough Quartet.

The night kicks off with a set, followed by the 90-minute documentary: eight years in the making and produced by Bruce Spiegel; telling the story of Evans' turbulent life, his impact on jazz music, and featuring interviews with Tony Bennett, Jack Dejohnette, Billy Taylor, Paul Motian, Jon Hendricks, Orin Keepnews, and Bobby Brookmeyer.

The evening will also include a broadcast of an interview with Evans by legendary jazz journalist Leigh Kamman and a post-screening music set by the McDonough Quartet.

A not-to-be-missed night for jazz lovers old & new.

The Larry McDonough Quartet includes Larry McDonough, leader, composer and arranger, pianist, keyboardist, and vocalist; Richard Terrill, saxophonist and poet; Greg Stinson, acoustic and electric bassist; and Dean White, drummer, all long-time Minnesota residents.

Larry McDonough has performed with and recorded saxophonist Benny Golson, Trombonist Fred Wesley, and trumpeters Lew Soloff and 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. He has released nine CDs and DVDs as a leader, including “Simple Gifts,” which reached number 29 on the CMJ Jazz Chart and has been played on hundreds of stations around the country and throughout the world, and most recently, the two-CD set Alice in Stonehenge and other AcoustElectric Adventures.

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). He also has performed with guitarist Jim McGuire, pianist Geoff Keezer, and the Lyle Mays Quartet. As a college student, Richard was a member of the award-winning University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Jazz Ensemble.

Bassist Greg Stinson has played in the Century College Jazz Ensemble for more than 25 years. He also plays in the CC Septet, Hortz, 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.

Dean White grew up in Superior, Wisconsin, and played with Tony Axtell, Toshi Hinata, Good, the Bad and the Funky, the Autobody Experience, Century Big Band, Nova Jazz, Big Time Jazz Orchestra, the Hortz, Power of 10, Jack Knife and the Sharps, Tubby Esquire, Hennessy Brothers jazz, and many others.

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