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THE DOUG TALLEY QUARTET
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TALLEY,
SAXOPHONE -- Doug Talley has performed with such jazz luminaries as Jay
McShann, Bob Mintzer, Claude "Fiddler" Williams, Bobby Watson, Randy
Brecker and Gary Foster. He is a familiar face throughout the Midwest as a jazz
performer and educator. Formed in 1995, past performances of THE DOUG TALLEY
QUARTET include the 1995 & 1999 Jazz in June festivals in
Norman, Oklahoma, 1996 and 2000 Deep Deuce Jazz Festivals in Oklahoma
City, the Dallas Museum of Art, the Elkhart (IN) Jazz Festival, the Kansas
City Blues and Jazz Festival and the Corporate Woods Jazz Festival (KS).
Talley has also appeared at the 18th & Vine Festival, the Kansas
Jazz and Blues Festival, the Kansas City Spirit Festival, the
Coleman Hawkins Jazz Festival, Mayport Jazz Festival, and in Las
Vegas with The Four Freshman, The Platters and The Diamonds.
Talley is a Selmer saxophone artist and clinician and has
worked with numerous college and high school musicians, including the University
of Minnesota, Coe College (Iowa)
Jazz Festival, Kansas State University, Peru State University (Nebraska) and
Baker, Washburn, Central Missouri State, Southeast Oklahoma State, Emporia State
and Kansas Universities, among many others. A faculty member of the Great Plains
Jazz Camp since 1988, Talley was featured at the 1996 MENC convention in Kansas
City directing the Shawnee Mission (Kansas) Honors Jazz Band. He was a clinician
at the 1997 International Association of Jazz Educators conference.
Honored by Kansas City magazine as one of the "40 Under 40 Who Move and Shake Kansas City in Business, Politics and the Arts," Talley was also recognized in Downbeat magazine "Auditions" in 1986. His discography includes 4 recordings on the Sea Breeze label for the Trilogy and Boulevard Big Bands as well as the Doug Talley Quartet's debut CD, Town Topic which has been described as "...reminiscent of the Modern Jazz Quartet." (Jam magazine) Receiving wider recognition and national airplay, the quartet's second CD, Night and Day, focuses on the music of Cole Porter.
WAYNE HAWKINS, PIANO -- Wayne is one of Kansas City's most
in-demand keyboard artists. He has appeared with Grammy
award-winner Diane Schuur, saxophonist Richie Cole, as well as the Kansas
City Symphony and the Kansas City Camerata. He has also backed such legendary
artists as Cab Calloway, George Burns, The Supremes and The Platters.
TIM
BREWER, BASS -- A graduate of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Tim is
a gifted composer and performer. He has appeared with many artists, including
Bobby Watson and Eddie Harris. Locally, he composes, arranges and performs with
the Triology and Boulevard Big Bands, the New Kansas City Seven and Trinity Jazz
Ensemble.
KEITH KAVANAUGH, DRUMS -- 
Keith is a 1987 graduate of the Berklee College of Music in Boston where he studied drumset with Gary Chaffee and Joe Hunt, improvisational theory with Gary Burton, and ensemble performance with Herb Pomeroy and Donald Brown among others. He has performed with Diane Schuur, Phil Wilson, Joshua Breakstone, Scott Robinson and many musicians on the Kansas City jazz scene. In 1990 Keith graduated from Park University where he completed a degree in Painting and Graphic Design. He has paintings in the Sprint Corporation Art Collection and several private collections, and has designed more than 100 CD packages for musicians from coast-to-coast. Check out
his work at BauWau.com.