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Recordings:
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By Request ]
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Kansas City Suite ]
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Night and Day ]
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Town Topic ]
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Doug Talley - Saxophones |
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| "Talley has absorbed the
post bop traditions of Coltrane and Rollins, added the warmth of
Dexter Gordon and the flourishes of Stan Getz, and developed his
own harmonic and wonderfully melodic approach." |
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-- Mark E. Gallo, JazzReview.com
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Doug Talley has performed with such jazz
luminaries as Jay McShann, Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Claude "Fiddler" Williams,
Bobby Watson, Byron Stripling, Ignacio Berroa, Randy Brecker, Scott Robinson and
Gary Foster. He is a familiar face throughout the Midwest as a jazz
performer and educator. 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.
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| 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, Kalamazoo
College, Kansas State University, University of Nebraska, University of South
Dakota, Central Missouri State, Emporia State and Kansas University, among many
others. Talley was a faculty member of the Great Plains Jazz Camp for twelve
years, and 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 and a faculty member of
the 2003 IAJE Teacher Training Institute. |
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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 four recordings on the Sea Breeze
label for the Trilogy and Boulevard Big Bands as well as the
Doug Talley Quartet's three CDs, Town
Topic -- "...reminiscent of the Modern Jazz Quartet." (Jam magazine),
Night and Day – which received national airplay, and Kansas City Suite
– a musical depiction of the quartet’s hometown. |
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Doug Talley ] [
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