JAZZ history evokes images of a color- RECORDINGS ful past when musicians in smokey speakeasies played long into the night the KANSAS CITY SUITE (2001) classic tunes of swing and bebop. The “A delight from start to finish.” Doug Talley Quartet, based in Kansas City, CHARLES WINOKOOR recreates that same excitement and verve CADENCE MAGAZINE for concert audiences of today.

Talley is influenced strongly by such leg- NIGHT AND DAY (1998) ends as Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter, “...speaks the language of and has put together a quartet of musicians jazz as well as it can be spoken.” also studied in the ways of the masters. GARY FOSTER Learning from jazz history, CONCORD RECORDING ARTIST this group expands the old parameters. The quar- TOWN TOPIC (1996) tet breathes new life into “...reminiscent of the standards and originals Modern Jazz Quartet.” with colorful har- JAM MAGAZINE monies and strong counter-clockwise from top: rhythms, creating its Doug Talley (saxophones), Wayne Hawkins (piano), Tim Brewer (bass), Keith Kavanaugh (drums) own voice — a hall- “The quartet’s style falls squarely in mark of great acoustic jazz. the Mainstream of jazz and it’s a And that is the “hook” of this group. The gem… Kansas City Suite is entertain- Doug Talley Quartet, with its straight- ing, exciting and perfectly rendered.” DougTalley ahead, post-bop sound, is building its own JAZZREVIEW.COM tradition of Kansas City jazz, bringing QUARTET America’s classical music into the 21st Century. “…speak[ing] the language “There has always been great jazz in TALLEY MUSIC PRODUCTIONS of jazz as well as it Kansas City — thanks to the Doug 7807 Caenen Lake • Lenexa, KS 66216 tel: 913/631.6704 • fax: 913/631.6704 can be spoken.” Talley Quartet, there still is.” [email protected] BOB BERNOTAS www.geocities.com/doug_talley GARY FOSTER MIDWEST JAZZ MAGAZINE CONCORD RECORDING ARTIST Studio photos: Jim Goss. Design: BauWau Design (bauwau.com) SELECTED APPEARANCES THE QUARTET Arkansas Doug Talley has performed with such jazz lumi- Victory Theatre, Rogers naries as Jay McShann, Bob Mintzer, Claude Iowa “Fiddler” Williams, Bobby Coe College Jazz Festival (Doug Talley) Watson, Randy Brecker and Indiana Elkhart Jazz Festival Gary Foster. He is a familiar face Kansas throughout the Midwest as a Atchison Musical Arts Society Summer Sounds Series jazz performer and educator. Baker University Emporia State University Talley is a Selmer saxophone Fox Theatre, Hutchinson Hutchinson Community College artist and clinician and has Corporate Woods Jazz Festival, Overland Park appeared at numerous high Kansas State University Jazz Festival schools and colleges, including the Topeka Performing Arts Center Best of Kansas City Jazz Series University of Minnesota, Coe College “Talley and his men are to be credit- Topeka Jazz Workshop (IA), Kansas State, Peru (NE) State, Michigan Central Missouri State, Northwest ed with pushing themselves and Fontana Chamber Arts, Kalamazoo The B.O.B., Grand Rapids Missouri State, Southeast Oklahoma their audience… By any measure the Hart Concert Series State, among many others. A faculty concert was a triumph for the Doug Minnesota member/clinician at the 2003 IAJE Dakota Bar and Grill, St. Paul Talley Quartet and the infinite University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Teacher’s Training Institute, and faculty member of the Missouri Great Plains Jazz capacity of jazz to renew itself and Folly Theater, Kansas City “We especially appreciate the work you did Camp since 1988, its audience.” Gem Theater, Kansas City Talley was fea- Jazz in Joplin with our students… Your willingness to give CHUCK BERG Kansas City Blues and Jazz Festival tured at the 1996 TOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL Kansas City Spirit Festival MENC convention Kemper Museum of Art, Kansas City them individual attention had a tremendous Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City in Kansas City impact on those who participated… I would , piano, is one of Kansas City’s most Powell Gardens, Kingsville directing the Wayne Hawkins St. Joseph Performing Arts Assoc. Jazz Series in-demand keyboard artists, album producers and film be glad to recommend your group to any Shawnee Mission Nebraska sound track composers. He has appeared with Grammy presenter considering either an in-school (KS) Honors Jazz Berman Music Foundation, Lincoln award-winner Diane Schuur, and two-time Grammy University of Nebraska, Lincoln Band. He was a Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha workshop or formal concert.” award winner Paquito D’Rivera, as well as the Kansas clinician at the Willow Creek Festival, Gordon City Symphony TOM KIRK 1997 International Oklahoma HART (MI) PUBLIC SCHOOLS Deep Deuce Jazz Festival, Oklahoma City, 1997, 2000 Association of Tim Brewer, bass, is a graduate of the University of Charlie Christian Jazz Festival, Oklahoma City Missouri-Kansas City. Tim is a gifted composer and Jazz in June, Norman, 1995, 1999 and 2003 Jazz Educators Goddard Center, Ardmore conference in Chicago and honored by Kansas City mag- performer and has appeared with many artists, includ- Texas azine as one of the “40 Under 40 Who Move and Shake ing Bobby Watson and Eddie Harris. Dallas Museum of Art Kansas City in Business, Politics and the Arts.” Keith Kavanaugh, drums, is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston. He has performed “You were SPLENDID! Kansas City Suite was a truly wonderful experience and the with Diane Schuur, Phil Wilson, Joshua Cathedral community THANKS YOU for contributing this fine new work in honor Breakstone, Scott Robinson and many musi- of the 150th birthday celebration of Kansas City, Missouri.” cians on the Kansas City jazz scene. JOHN WINKELS CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (KANSAS CITY, MO)