BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Find Local//findlocal.community//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3ccc2388-bba0-4197-9c98-989fc45c6139@findlocal.community DTSTAMP:20261015T153641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261022T200000 SUMMARY:Doug MacDonald DESCRIPTION:There are some musicians who earn the label “a players player ”. Individuals who possess a quality and integrity that peers look up to \, not for mere bursts of blazing notes or chops\, but for the perfectio n of their performances and the joy they bring. Such a musician is West coast based Jazz journeyman guitarist Doug MacDonald. “I’ve simply never lost my love affair for warm notes\, a good standard and striving for t he best performance”\, states the guitarist. In that regard\, MacDonald’ s musicianship evokes thoughts of such artists as Chet Baker and Sinatra \, to name a few\, who performed and excelled in a particular style thei r entire careers while keeping it fresh for their audiences time after t ime. Originally from Philadelphia\, he began his career in Hawaii\, wher e he played with Trummy Young and Gabe Balthazar\, and with Del Courtney at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Relocating to Las Vegas\, Doug found himse lf immersed in a vibrant music scene\, and began playing in lounges and showrooms with jazz greats\, including Joe Williams\, Carl Fontana\, Jac k Montrose\, and Carson Smith. On to Los Angeles\, Doug played in the ba nds of Bill Holman\, Ray Anthony\, and John Clayton\, and performed and recorded with Jake Hanna\, Rosemary Clooney\, Jack Sheldon\, Bob Cooper\ , Ross Tompkins\, Ray Brown\, Buddy Rich\, and Ray Charles. Doug also be gan recording and performing with his own trio and quartet\, as well as his 13 piece ensemble\, The Jazz Coalition. Throughout his career the gu itarist has caught the attention of noted jazz writers and critics. Mich ael Nastos of All Music Guide wrote\, “a veteran guitarist who know his influences cold\, and consistently plays to his strong suit.” Scott Yano w wrote of MacDonald\, “...a fine bop-based guitarist in the tradition o f Herb Ellis\, Barney Kessel\, and Joe Pass.” Chicago Tribune’s Zan Stew art captured so much of MacDonald when he wrote\, “...beautiful bell-cle ar sounds and a sure-footed sense of swing.” drummer Harold Acey round o ut the personnel.” To date\, MacDonald has released a prolific catalog o f 15 CDs spanning configurations as a soloist\, in duos\, trios\, quarte ts and big bands. A selection of discs include 2009's orchestral project Fourth Stream for 13-piece brass and woodwind ensemble augmented with s trings. 2014 saw the release of Solo Plus\, a 14 song collection of stan dards played solo by MacDonald. In 2016\, he released Doug MacDonald’s R eorganized Quartet. Bill Milkowski writes in the liner notes for the CD\ , “On this potent outing\, MacDonald is surrounded by a pair of like-min ded old school burners on the LA scene in tenor saxophonist Clarence Web b and 70-year-old Hammond B-3 master and Columbus\, Ohio native Bobby Pi erce (who recorded with a young Pat Martino in his band on a couple of C obblestone and Muse sessions from the early 1970s). Tenor saxophonist Ro dger Neumann and drummer Harold Acey round out the personnel.” In 2017\, MacDonald released View Of The City on Blujazz\, a recording where the guitarist and composer returns to New York with mainstays Harvie S on ba ss and Steve Williams on drums. As Doug explains\, “The time was right t o return to the City and work with just bass and drums\, which is a trio format I particularly enjoy. Harvie and Steve contributed a huge amount of soul and enthusiasm throughout the hours we recorded." Organisms\, r eleased in February\, 2019 on Scholz Productions\, is a organ quartet fe aturing Ben Scholz on drums\, Carey Frank on organ and Bob Sheppard on t enor sax. The music has a palpable synergy between each member of the qu artet and contains ten songs\, three originals and fresh takes on seven standards. Doug’s 15th release\, his first on his own dmacmusic label\, is Califournia Quartet released in May of 2019. It is a mainstream jazz ensemble featuring some of the West Coast’s finest musicians. The quarte t includes Kim Richmond on alto sax/flute\, Harvey Newmark on bass\, and Paul Kreibich on drums. The hard swinging disc\, produced by Ben Scholz \, has six original MacDonald compositions and the American-songbook sta ndards “A Beautiful Friendship”\, “If You Could See Me Now”\, “The Thing s We Did Last Summer and “Tenderly”. Recorded in 2017 at Tritone Studios \, the recording was engineered by Talley Sherwood\, mixed by Maurice Ga inen and mastered by Robert Vosgien at Capitol Studios. This unique reco rd will delight fans of classic jazz and swing music. Release in Septemb er of 2019\, Doug MacDonald & The Tarmac Ensemble - Live at Hangar 18 - Jazz Marathon 4. is the fourth CD in the jazz marathon series\, features two MacDonald originals and 14 standards. On this outing\, recorded liv e at Hangar 18\, near Los Angeles International Airport\, Doug has once again assembled a stellar “who’s who” of veterans on the West Coast jazz scene. By alternating between two separate ensembles\, producer Don Tho mson creates a format of continuous music for this musical watershed tha t dates back to the birth of West Coast Jazz in the 1960's. Back on the West Coast\, MacDonald continues to do what he loves and does best\, per form\, record and in the past few years teaching via online lessons. He continues to tour and perform around 300 plus performances a year across the country from Hawaii to Las Vegas\, Los Angeles and New York City\, as well as to Spain\, Hawaii\, Finland\, Estonia\, and England. Some of the venues include Cezanne\, in Houston\, The Jazz Showcase\, in Chicago \, and Carnegie Hall and Mezzrow\, both in New York City to name a few. In 2018\, he performed on the East coast with Steinway artist Lenore Rap hael and her Quartet. The guitarist states\, “Earlier on as a Jazz music ian you pay your dues and work hard every minute. I’m fortunate\, at thi s stage of my career\, that I am working often and still loving it.”\n\n More info: https://www.dougmacdonald.net/bio\n\nhttps://findlocal.commun ity/event/3ccc2388-bba0-4197-9c98-989fc45c6139 LOCATION:Edwin Mills\, Pasadena\, CA URL:https://findlocal.community/event/3ccc2388-bba0-4197-9c98-989fc45c613 9 STATUS:CONFIRMED SEQUENCE:0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR