“The quartet’s style falls squarely inthe Mainstream of jazz and it’s a

gem… Kansas City Suite is entertain-ing, exciting and perfectly rendered.”

JAZZREVIEW.COM

“There has always been great jazz inKansas City — thanks to the Doug

Talley Quartet, there still is.”BOB BERNOTAS

MIDWEST JAZZ MAGAZINE

JAZZ history evokes images of a color-ful past when musicians in smokeyspeakeasies played long into the night theclassic tunes of swing and bebop. TheDoug Talley Quartet, based in Kansas City,recreates that same excitement and vervefor concert audiences of today.

Talley is influenced strongly by such leg-ends as Joe Henderson and Wayne Shorter,and has put together a quartet of musiciansalso studied in the ways of the masters.

Learning from jazz history,this group expands theold parameters. The quar-tet breathes new life intostandards and originalswith colorful har-monies and strongrhythms, creating itsown voice — a hall-mark of great acoustic jazz.

And that is the “hook” of this group. TheDoug Talley Quartet, with its straight-ahead, post-bop sound, is building its owntradition of Kansas City jazz, bringingAmerica’s classical music into the 21stCentury.

TOWN TOPIC (1996)

“...reminiscent of theModern Jazz Quartet.”

JAM MAGAZINE

NIGHT AND DAY (1998)

“...speaks the language ofjazz as well as it can bespoken.”

GARY FOSTERCONCORD RECORDING ARTIST

KANSAS CITY SUITE (2001)

“A delight from start to finish.”

CHARLES WINOKOORCADENCE MAGAZINE

RECORDINGS

DougTalleyQUARTET

“…speak[ing] the languageof jazz as well as it

can be spoken.”GARY FOSTER

CONCORD RECORDING ARTIST

TALLEY MUSIC PRODUCTIONS7807 Caenen Lake • Lenexa, KS 66216tel: 913/631.6704 • fax: 913/631.6704doug_talley@hotmail.comwww.geocities.com/doug_talley

Studio photos: Jim Goss. Design: BauWau Design (bauwau.com)

counter-clockwise from top:Doug Talley (saxophones), Wayne Hawkins (piano), Tim Brewer (bass), Keith Kavanaugh (drums)

THE QUARTETDoug Talley has performed with such jazz lumi-naries as Jay McShann, Bob Mintzer, Claude

“Fiddler” Williams, BobbyWatson, Randy Brecker andGary Foster. He is a familiar facethroughout the Midwest as ajazz performer and educator.

Talley is a Selmer saxophoneartist and clinician and hasappeared at numerous highschools and colleges, including theUniversity of Minnesota, Coe College(IA), Kansas State, Peru (NE) State,Central Missouri State, NorthwestMissouri State, Southeast OklahomaState, among many others. A faculty

member/clinician at the 2003 IAJETeacher’s Training Institute, and faculty member of the

Great Plains JazzCamp since 1988,Talley was fea-tured at the 1996MENC conventionin Kansas Citydirecting theShawnee Mission(KS) Honors JazzBand. He was aclinician at the1997 InternationalAssociation ofJazz Educators

conference in Chicago and honored by Kansas City mag-azine as one of the “40 Under 40 Who Move and ShakeKansas City in Business, Politics and the Arts.”

“We especially appreciate the work you didwith our students… Your willingness to givethem individual attention had a tremendousimpact on those who participated… I would

be glad to recommend your group to anypresenter considering either an in-school

workshop or formal concert.” TOM KIRK

HART (MI) PUBLIC SCHOOLS

“Talley and his men are to be credit-ed with pushing themselves andtheir audience… By any measure theconcert was a triumph for the DougTalley Quartet and the infinitecapacity of jazz to renew itself andits audience.”CHUCK BERGTOPEKA CAPITAL-JOURNAL

SELECTED APPEARANCESArkansasVictory Theatre, Rogers

IowaCoe College Jazz Festival (Doug Talley)

IndianaElkhart Jazz Festival

KansasAtchison Musical Arts Society Summer Sounds SeriesBaker UniversityEmporia State UniversityFox Theatre, HutchinsonHutchinson Community CollegeCorporate Woods Jazz Festival, Overland ParkKansas State University Jazz FestivalTopeka Performing Arts CenterBest of Kansas City Jazz SeriesTopeka Jazz Workshop

MichiganFontana Chamber Arts, KalamazooThe B.O.B., Grand RapidsHart Concert Series

MinnesotaDakota Bar and Grill, St. PaulUniversity of Minnesota, Minneapolis

MissouriFolly Theater, Kansas CityGem Theater, Kansas CityJazz in JoplinKansas City Blues and Jazz FestivalKansas City Spirit FestivalKemper Museum of Art, Kansas CityNelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas CityPowell Gardens, KingsvilleSt. Joseph Performing Arts Assoc. Jazz Series

NebraskaBerman Music Foundation, LincolnUniversity of Nebraska, LincolnJoslyn Art Museum, OmahaWillow Creek Festival, Gordon

OklahomaDeep Deuce Jazz Festival, Oklahoma City, 1997, 2000Charlie Christian Jazz Festival, Oklahoma CityJazz in June, Norman, 1995, 1999 and 2003Goddard Center, Ardmore

TexasDallas Museum of Art

Wayne Hawkins, piano, is one of Kansas City’s mostin-demand keyboard artists, album producers and filmsound track composers. He has appeared with Grammyaward-winner Diane Schuur, and two-time Grammyaward winner Paquito D’Rivera, as well as the KansasCity Symphony

Tim Brewer, bass, is a graduate of the University ofMissouri-Kansas City. Tim is a gifted composer andperformer and has appeared with many artists, includ-ing Bobby Watson and Eddie Harris.

Keith Kavanaugh, drums, is a graduate of BerkleeCollege of Music in Boston. He has performedwith Diane Schuur, Phil Wilson, JoshuaBreakstone, Scott Robinson and many musi-cians on the Kansas City jazz scene.

“You were SPLENDID! Kansas City Suite was a truly wonderful experience and theCathedral community THANKS YOU for contributing this fine new work in honorof the 150th birthday celebration of Kansas City, Missouri.”JOHN WINKELSCATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (KANSAS CITY, MO)