Lawrence has been a featured performer at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Village Vanguard, the Walt Disney Concert Hall and at international concert halls and jazz festivals including the Sydney Opera House, the Moscow International House of Music, the Blue Note Tokyo, Telluride Jazz Celebration and the North Sea Jazz Festival. Since 1996 Lawrence has been, and is currently, the featured tenor saxophone soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra. In 2020 Lawrence began working with the iconic organist Joey DeFrancesco in DeFrancesco's "Tenor Madness" band. After Mr DeFrancesco's untimely death on August 25, 2022, the band briefly continued on with Dan Trudell taking Mr DeFrancesco's place on organ. This band featured longtime Harry Connick Jr. tenor saxophonist Jerry Weldon and Lawrence in a quartet or quintet setting. [11] Lawrence also works regularly with pianist George Cables among others. [12] Lawrence leads his own Trio, Quartet, Quintet or Sextet as well as a latin jazz band called Doug Lawrence y Su Nuevo Mexicanos.[13] Lawrence frequently appears as guest clinician and artist-in-residence at universities and jazz camps around the world.[14]
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^Bailey, C.Michael (13 February 2003). "Doug Lawrence; Street Wise". All About Jazz. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
^Bowers, Jack. "Doug Lawrence;Doug Lawrence and Friends". All About Jazz.
^"Boss Tenors Jerry Weldon and Doug Lawrence". Musical Instrument Museum. Retrieved 4 April 2023.
^"Dexter Gordon Legacy Quartet with Doug Lawrence, George Cables, Louis Hayes, John Webber". Outpost Performance Space. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
^Steinberg, David. "Match Made In Jazz Heaven". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 17 June 2013.
^Gambetta, Franchesco. "Festival internationale Isola Jazz". Genova Oggi Notizie. Archived from the original on August 17, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
^Page-English, Mike. "Doug Lawrence: Local Jazz Hero". Local iQ. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
External links
Doug Lawrence official website
Count Basie website, Richard Barnhart
Jimmy Cobb website
Doug Lawrence Interview NAMM Oral History Library (2022)