Doug Lawrence (born October 11, 1956) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Lake Charles, Louisiana. Early life Lawrence was born into a musical family in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His father and two brothers were professional musicians and both of his sisters also played. His mother was a dancer. Lawrence studied music at the University of New Mexico and was a member of the Jazz Knights, a jazz ensemble of the West Point Band. Career Lawrence spent over 20 years in New York City, collaborating with Tony Bennett, Aretha Franklin, Roy Eldridge and others. He has also recorded with many prominent jazz musicians such as Buck Clayton, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Charles, Wild Bill Davis, Hank Jones, Mel Lewis, and Jimmy Cobb as well as recording six albums as a leader including - "Soul Carnival", "High Heel Sneakers", "Big Band Swing" and "Street Wise". Lawrence served in the West Point Band's Jazz Knights in the early 1980s as the lead tenor saxophonist. 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. Lawrence is currently the featured tenor soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra and also works with the organist Joey DeFrancesco, pianist George Cables and drummer Louis Hayes among others and leads his own band called the Doug Lawrence Organic Trio or Quartet. Lawrence frequently appears as guest clinician and artist-in-residence at universities and jazz camps around the world. Personal life Lawrence and his live in New Mexico. Discography As leader Soul Carnival (Fable 1997) High Heel Sneakers (Fable/Lightyear 1998) Big Band Swing (Black Orchid 2001) Street Wise (AllTribe 2002) Doug Lawrence New Organ Trio (Cactus 2014) Doug Lawrence and Friends (Junkie Jazz 2021) As sideman Richard Allen, Gone with the Wind (JazzInn 1999) Count Basie Orchestra, All About That Basie (Concord 2018) Count Basie Orchestra, A Very Swinging Basie Christmas (Concord 2015) Count Basie Orchestra, Ella 100: Live At The Apollo (Concord 2020) Count Basie Orchestra, Live At Birdland (Candid 2021) Count Basie Orchestra, Live in Japan (Sony 2006) Count Basie Orchestra, Singing, Swinging, Playing (Mack Avenue 2009) Hinton Battle, Meets the Count Basie Orchestra (Sony 2013) Tony Bennett, A Swingin'