John Doheny
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John Steven "Pip" Doheny (born December 17, 1953), is a jazz tenor saxophonist and bandleader, who also plays flute, clarinet, and alto saxophone.
Born in Seattle, Washington, Doheny spent his early career in the 1970s primarily in Vancouver, Canada, playing in local rhythm and blues bands and strip clubs, as well as spending large parts of each year on exhaustive road trips to taverns throughout rural British Columbia and Alberta. By the 1980s he was appearing as a sideman with artists such as the Coasters, the Platters, the Temptations, and Buddy Knox. In the late 1980s he relocated to Toronto, Canada, and then New York City, working with the bands of Lloyd Williams, Danny B, and Kenny Margolis.
He released his first CD as a leader One Up, Two Back in 2002, featuring his band the John Doheny Quintet, and vocalist Coleen Savage.
Doheny is noted as a colorful raconteur. A recent interview with him can be found here, courtesy of smoothjazz.com, which includes an explanation of how he came across the middle name "Pip", and an account of his early days as a struggling musician.
Doheny is also a jazz historian, and historian of the famous New Orleans Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club. He has written articles on Jelly Roll Morton, and also achieved notoriety for transcribing the music of Charles Mingus from audio form into written musical scores. Having transcribed the music of Mingus, he adapted the scores to a series of performances entitled 'Mingus Mania,' parts of which appeared on the Bravo television network in the early 1990s as musical interludes. Doheny also composed and performed the score and soundtrack for the 1998 Bruce Sweeney film Dirty, as well as appearing with his band in the 1997 Brian Dennehy TV movie A Father's Betrayal.
He is now a resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, where he is a visiting instructor at Tulane University. While many New Orleans residents were displaced by Hurricane Katrina, Doheny was one of the first to return after the flood waters subsided, and is one of the most enthusiastic and vocal advocates for the rebuilding of New Orleans to its original form, history, and traditions. He is currently dedicating his efforts to rebuilding the jazz culture in New Orleans, including seeking to create a jazz performance scene at Tulane University.
[edit] Discography
As Leader:
One Up, Two Back - JDQ Records CD618551 - 2002 John Doheny (tenor sax) Norm Quinn (trumpet and flugelhorn) Ridley Vinson or Tony Foster (piano) Al Johnston (bass) Stan Taylor (drums) Colleen Savage (vocals)
One Up, Two Back We Knew Attack of the Killer Chalmations Player's Inn Dindi Killer Chalmations . . Slight Return Time After Time Once in a While Perdido
Appears on the following recordings:
Hot Air Volume 3. CBC Radio Compilation. CBC Records. HACD0052 (2002) Martin Ferr - Dubious - Independent Cassette - 001 (1995) Terraced Garden - Within - Melody And Menace Records LP - CT - 1960 (1988) Downtown Kenny Brown and the Pervaders - Willin' and Ready - Razor Records/Blue Wave Records LP - 017 (1982) Albert Collins - When The Welfare Turns Its Back On You - Sonnet Records - LP - 14107 (1979) Douglas College Night Band - It's Just Talk-CD- DC 1007 (1998) VCC Jazz Orchestra - Revelation-Cassette (1995) VCC Jazz Orchestra - Let Me Off Uptown-Cassette (1993)
Original compositions, "If I Only Had A Brain" and "Uncle Jim's Blues", to the soundtrack of the 1998 Bruce Sweeney film Dirty
