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Legendary musician Doug Lawrence will perform with his quartet in a drive-in concert on Friday, April 30, in Taos. (Courtesy of Taos Center for the Arts)
Doug Lawrence is always excited to perform onstage.
After a year of not setting foot on one, the legendary jazz musician is ready.
“I haven’t been able to work,” the tenor saxophonist says. “This will be a fun event to get onstage with my friends.”
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The Doug Lawrence Quartet will perform a drive-in concert at 2 p.m. Friday, April 30, at the Taos Center for the Arts backlot.
The event will adhere to all state health orders, organizers say.
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Grady Tate was renowned as a session drummer extraordinaire, an expert in the use of the rim shot for syncopating purposes; prized for his driving, pushing, or subtle coaxing of the beat. Yet he also displayed a warm, flexible, rhythmically agile baritone voice, which, in a reversal of the usual commercial situation, was less well-known than his drumming. He began singing at age four, impressing local Durham, North Carolina church and school audiences, but quit temporarily when his voice broke at age 12. Self-taught as a drummer at first, he picked up the fundamentals of jazz drumming during his hitch in the Air Force (1951-1955), and arranger Bill Berry made some vocal charts for him there. Upon his discharge, he returned to Durham to study psychology, literature, and theater at North Carolina College, before moving to Washington, D.C. in 1959 to teach high school and take up a musical career with Wild Bill Davis.