These Foolish Things - Larry McKenna (Part 1 of 2)

Larry McKenna (tenor)
Madison Rast (bass)
Pete Smyser (guitar)
Jim Schade (drums)
(See my other videos for the rest of the song.)

NEW CD!!!!
Check out Larry McKenna's new critically-acclaimed CD "Profile" on the Dreambox Media label (Nov. 2009) with Tom Lawton (piano), Dan Monaghan (drums) and Kevin MacConnell (bass) (on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url... "Profile" includes vocalist Nancy Reed as special guest introducing Larry's first-ever ballad composition "Perhaps This Wintertime" with lyrics written by Melissa Gilstrap.

Larry McKenna, tenor saxophonist, has performed as soloist with many jazz greats such as Clark Terry, Jon Faddis, Buddy DeFranco, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Frank Tiberi, Warren Vache, Mickey Roker, Rosemarie Clooney, Johnny Mathis, Frank Sinatra, Mel Torme, Peter Nero & the Philly Pops and many more.

Larry began playing at the age of fourteen. At age 18, he went on the road for a year with a five-piece band of Philadelphia musicians playing clubs along the East Coast. He returned to Philadelphia and attended the Granoff School of Music and played local gigs before playing in Woody Herman's Orchestra. After touring with Herman's band, he returned to Philadelphia, then joined George Young's Band in Wildwood, N.J. and played with that band in Las Vegas.

Since then, he has largely played in the Philadelphia area and has taught at Temple University, the University of the Arts, West Chester University, and the Community College of Philadelphia. He has also taught many clinics and presented many visiting lectures and taught many private students.

One of his CDs, My Shining Hour (music of Harold Arlen, EPE Records, distributed by BMG Music Canada Inc.). It has received critical acclaim from reviewers all across the United States and Canada. Larry McKenna can be heard on other CDs including Don Glanden, Sudden Life (Encounter Records); Frank Tiberi, 4 Brothers 7 (Jazzed Media Records), Al Raymond & Buddy DeFranco, Born To Swing (Hindsight Records), and Something Big; Woody Herman, Crown Royal (Laserlight Records), John Swana and the Philadelphians featuring Bootsie Barnes and Larry McKenna, Philly Gumbo II, (Criss Cross Records). His latest, It Might As Well Be Spring is available from DreamBox Media.

He has published many jazz-oriented arrangements for school concert bands which can be purchased from Northeastern Music Publications. Music arranged by Larry McKenna has been played on The Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, and in the movie Birdy, starring Nicholas Cage, in which he played and appeared in 1984.

Due to his appearance in Birdy, Larry has two degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

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• Madison
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• Pete
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• Jim
• Shade
• jazz
• ballad
• sax

[pinkieldred]

The winds of March that make my heart a dancer A telephone that rings but who's to answer? Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you How strange, how sweet, to find you still These things are dear to me They seem to bring you near to me The sigh of midnight trains in empty stations Silk stockings thrown aside, dance invitations Oh, how the ghost of you clings These foolish things remind me of you

[skimmie55]

Thanks for posting! Such great lyrics. I love this song.

[skimmie55]

A cigarette that bares a lipstick's traces

An airline ticket to romantic places

And still my heart has wings

These foolish things remind me of you.

A tinkling piano in the next apartment

Those stumblin' words that told you what my heart meant

A fairground's painted swings

These foolish things

Remind me of you.

[innermist]

Gorgeous tone, what a player........

[WilliamHW]

Larry McKenna!

Thank God for Larry.

I have enjoyed many hours of Larry's playing and I'm not tired of it.

This song is great for someone with the musicianship of Larry's caliber.

I am so glad you uploaded this, and other, Larry McKenna video clips, skimee55! I haven't seen or heard him live for years now.

Larry is a good man with great skill, playing music beautifully.

[onajik]

The beauty of this song, the musicianship is hardly a shock! Larry McKenna IS a Philadelphia Legend - so warmly & richly deserving of accolades he has yet to receive. His newest cd, PROFILE is indicative of how such an artist takes a wild instrument and simultaneously infuses it with life, yet tames it, COMPLETELY!

brhenda starr *

[JohnTowers1]

great sound!!! Juan de Argentina

[pinkieldred]

Skimmie...I feel the same way. An absolute masterpiece . I loved Rod Stewart CDs , coming out with those "good ole good ones" as Satchmo used to say.

[uartsMusicSchool]

go skimmie! larry rocks!

[rovingeye5]

five stars! the man is a Philadelphia legend and deservedly so!

[fromage777]

SAAAAAAAAAME