[jazzblues] Parkland Combo Wed w/guest Doug Stone!

[Jeff Machota]

From: 	Kevin & Cassie Hart <hartbeatjazz at verizon.net>




PARKLAND JAZZ COMBO
Featuring Chicago area tenor saxophonist DOUG STONE!!
(please read bio below)

Wednesday Nov 28, 5:30-7:30pm
The Iron Post, Urbana

Ian Cler - guitar
Chris Wood - vibes
Kyle Buffo - bass
Gordon Kay - drums
Kevin Hart - director

Featuring music by Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Jimmy Smith, Eric
Alexander, Steps Ahead, Bob Mintzer, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, and
many more!



Doug Stone was raised in Peoria, Illinois and began playing the
saxophone professionally at age 10. He received his bachelors degree
from Northern Illinois University. While at NIU Stone performed with
jazz legends Frank Wes, Frank Foster, Benny Golson, Rufus Reid, Ed
Thigpen, Larry Ridley and a host of others. Stone also led the
university's top combo as well as his own groups, the Jazz Arranging
Syndicate and Scantily Clad, featuring his original works. He has
performed with trombonist, composer, and arranger Joey Sellers and is a
member of Panoramic, a world-jazz group co-led by steel pan virtuoso
Liam Teague and pianist/percussionist Robert Chappell. In fall of 2004
and winter of 2005 Doug toured with Maynard Ferguson and the Big Bop
Nouveau. He currently resides in  Roselle, Illinois, and has performed
locally with the Nick Fryer Trio, the Chicago Metropolitan Jazz
Orchestra, the John Burnett Orchestra, the Model Citizens Orchestra,
John Bany's Men of Note, Human Motion, the Joel Spencer Quartet, Orbert
Davis, and the Ed Breazeale Group. Stone also leads his own groups, the
Doug Stone Quartet and Trio and is co-leader of the Nick Fryer/Doug
Stone Quartet and the Stone/Bratt Big Band.  He has written several
pieces for big band and his works have been featured with the Central
Illinois Jazz Train Orchestra and vocalist Kathy Kosins. Doug has
recorded with numerous groups including the Sam Craine Quartet, the Dave
Hoffman Sextet, the NIU Jazz Ensemble and Jazztet, the Jazz Arranging
Syndicate, Scantily Clad, Birch Creek Academy Big Band, the Ed Breazeale
Group, the Ji Young Lee Quartet, Panoramic, the Nick Fryer/Doug Stone
Quartet, and the Stone/Bratt Big Band.