Beauty Love Truth: Thursday, July 26 at 8pm with Bob Dorough, Garry Goodrow, Sara Schaefer at PIT

The PIT 123 E 24th BTW Park & Lex (new location!)

Tickets here.

BOB DOROUGH (Miles Davis, Allen Ginsberg, Schoolhouse Rock!) will play his music to inspire improvised scenes. Nothing is planned; it’s all improvised. You will never see this show again!

Featuring an INTRODUCTION by SARA SCHAEFER (“You Had to Be There,” MTV, Fallon) who will speak on the subject of Beauty Love AND/OR Truth.

This month’s IMPROVISERS include:

Matt Higgins (Centralia, Burn Manhattan)
Terry Jinn (UCB, The Project)
Bradford Jordan (Story Pirates, PIT)
Shannon Manning (Second City, IO, UCB, “Conan”)
Louie Pearlman (Story Pirates, The Spidey Project, Buckshot N Benny)
Mark Sam Rosenthal (“Blanche Survives Katrina in a FEMA Trailer Named Desire“)
Alexis Saarela ( Someday the Cake, Taco Supreme)
Lauren Sharpe (NeoFuturists NY and Chicago “Too Much Light Makes Baby Go Blind,” “The Complete and Condensed Stage Directions of Eugene O’Neill, Vol. 1.” The New Victory Theater, Big Apple Circus Clown Care.)

and special guest improviser GARRY GOODROW (The Committee, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, The Connection, Dirty Dancing, National Lampoon’s Lemmings, Honey I Blew Up The Kids -writer)

 

The Committee on Dick Cavett: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDahC7sdjw

Garry Goodrow and John Belushi sketch: http://youtu.be/r-pl-TkXwAE

The Connection trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BsfBomthhc

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MORE ABOUT BOB DOROUGH:

BOB DOROUGH, born in Arkansas and “raised” in Texas, immediately fell in love with music upon joining the Plainview Texas High School Band. He served three years in a Special Services Army Band Unit, gaining much professional experience as arranger, clarinetist, saxophonist, pianist, and entertainer (1943-45).

After earning a Bachelor Of Music degree at the University of North Texas (1949), he made a bee-line for New York City where he took classes at Columbia University and immersed himself in the volatile jazz scene then taking place there -the BeBop revolution.

In 1952 he turned his back on the academic scene to devote himself to jazz performance, specializing in piano/vocals. After years of accompanying, conducting, arranging, and playing, he made his first recording as a leader (1956) for the Bethlehem label….DEVIL MAY CARE, having written the title tune three years earlier. He is known as “the only singer to record with Miles Davis”. While this may not be 100% true, he did record two vocals with Davis, in 1962, “Nothing Like You” and “Blue Xmas,” both of which he composed.

Davis also recorded an instrumental version of Bob’s classic song, “Devil May Care,” that same year.

In 1971 he received a commission to “set the multiplication tables to music.” This led to a small industry, being the beginning of ABC-TV’s SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, Saturday morning cartoons that entertained and instructed unsuspecting children during the years 1973-1985. The impact of this media exposure was unpredictably immense. The show came back for another five years in the 90’s and is now enjoying its 30th anniversary with a DVD edition of the entire, five-subject series, for which Dorough worked as the Musical Director.

In 1995 he signed a contract with the prestigious jazz label – Blue Note Records – and has done three CDs for them (“Right On My Way Home,” “Too Much Coffee Man“ and “Who‘s On First“).

Now residing in Pennsylvania, he has received honors from that state (the Governor’s Artist of the Year Award) and from his native state (the Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame.)

In 2002 his trio was chosen to represent the State Department and Kennedy Center, as an Ambassador of Jazz and Blues. The one-month tour saw them play some 22 workshops and concerts in thirteen cities in six different countries.

Currently recording on Arbors, Candid and his own label, Bob Dorough continues to perform, often for children too, in Jazz Clubs and Schools, wherever he can.

Next shows:

→ THURS, AUGUST 30 at 8pm with musical guest Ko-Lition K.O. (Check out their new album on iTunes.)

→ THURS, SEPTEMBER 27 at 8pm with musical guest Stephan Said

Check out recent radio program Cat Radio Cafe with Janet Coleman and David Dozer on WBAI.  PART II mp3 download or listen online (starts at 5 minutes in.)