Doug Riley

Doug "Doc" Riley, CM, ( born April 24, 1945 in Toronto as Douglas Brain Riley; † August 27, 2008 in Calgary ) is a Canadian keyboardist, pianist, arranger, composer and music producer.

Life and work

Riley played as a young R & B in Toronto in the band The Silhouettes. After a pianistic training at the Royal Conservatory of Music, he studied from 1964 to 1967 at the University of Toronto composition with John Weinzweig and ethnomusicology with Mieczyslaw Kolinski. His research focused on the music of the Iroquois. After graduating in 1967 he worked in various musical genres such as jazz, classical music, film music and ballet music. He also wrote music for about 2,000 jingles, arranged from the late 1960s music for the TV station CTV and CBC and in 1968 was arranger and keyboardist for the Ray Charles album Doing His Thing.

In the following years he worked with his pop band Doctor Music, a 16-member vocal and instrumental ensemble. The most successful singles of Doctor Music One More Mountain to Climb were (1971 ), Sun Goes by ( 1972) and Long Time Comin 'Home (1972). He was also active as a jazz musician to hear, for example, Dreams and a duo album with Guido Basso (A Lazy Afternoon, 1997) and a contribution to the jazz compilation From Canada With Love 1990 he began to occur more frequently live; In 1993 he formed with saxophonist Phil Dwyer, a quartet. In the late 1990s he moved every year for four months at the Prince Edward Iceland back, but remained active as a composer and musician. Throughout his career, Riley worked as a musician and producer with David Clayton -Thomas, Moe Koffman, Placido Domingo, Ringo Starr, Gordon Lightfoot, Anne Murray, Sylvia Tyson, Dan Hill and Bob Seger.

Riley wrote, inter alia, a string trio, a concerto for piano and orchestra (1982 ), a Concerto for String Quartet and Winds ( 1983), which was premiered with Moe Koffman and the Orford String Quartet, as well as the Baroque Suite No. 1 for chamber orchestra (1985). His four -piece Prince Edward Iceland suite, symphonic, jazz -influenced composition for the Toronto Sinfonietta, he led in 2002, together with this and his Doug Riley Quartet.

He died in August 2008 of a heart attack.

Prizes and awards

Riley was nominated with his production Tommy Ambrose at Last for Best Jazz Album in 1981 for the Juno Award. 1993-2000 he was a jazz organist of the Year of the Jazz Report Awards. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Canada.

Disco Graphical Notes

  • Doctor Music ( RCI, 1977)
  • Dreams (1975, with Don Thompson, Claude Ranger, Michael Stuart )
  • Dr Music (EP - CTL, 1984)
  • Stride (2005)
  • You Can not Make Peace (2007)
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