# Eric Harland's Voyager at Miner Auditorium, January 9, 2016

[SFJAZZ](http://www.sfjazz.org/events/2015-16/0109/eric-harland) presents A Tribute to Gil Scott-Heron featuring [Eric Harland's Voyager](http://www.iharland.com/) with [Brian Jackson](http://www.brianjackson.net/)  
2016-01-09  
[Miner Auditorium](http://www.sfjazz.org/center)  
[SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=SFJAZZ+Center,+205+Franklin+St,+San+Francisco,+CA&hl=en)  
7:30 PM, Saturday, January 9, 2016

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## Pre-concert Talk with Eric Harland & Brian Jackson, hosted by Marcus Shelby

[6:74 PM lights down]  
[Wide-ranging, free conversation, ending with brief Q&A]  
[Thanks and done, 7:11 PM]

## Set One

[7:33 PM lights down]

01. [7:33 PM] [tape playback: Gil Scott-Heron _We Beg Your Pardon (Pardon Our Analysis)_]
02. [7:37 PM] _The Revolution Will Not Be Televised_
03. [7:49 PM] _All We Got_
04. [8:00 PM] _Running_
05. [8:05 PM] _Winter in America_  
[8:20 PM long pause while EH yacks, then introduces the band]
06. [8:28 PM] _Gun_ »
07. [8:42 PM] (drum duet)
08. [8:51 PM] _Hello Sunday ! Hello Road!_  
[set ends 9:04 PM]  
   
**Encore**  
(add Martin Luther McCoy, Robert Mailer Anderson)
09. [9:04 PM] _Whitey on the Moon_ (RMA)
10. [9:11 PM] _Liberation Song (Red, Black and Green)_ (BJ/CT/ML)  
[show ends 9:20 PM]

## Performers

### Eric Harland's Voyager

[Eric Harland's Voyager](http://www.iharland.com/)

* [Taylor Eigsti](http://tayjazz.com/): piano, keyboards;
* [Eric Harland](http://www.iharland.com/): drums, percussion;
* [Julian Lage](http://www.julianlage.com/): guitar;
* [Keita Ogawa](http://keitaogawa.com/): drums, percussion;
* [Harish Raghavan](https://myspace.com/harishraghavan): bass;
* [Walter Smith III](http://www.waltersmith3.com/): tenor saxophone;
* [Chris Turner](http://iamchristurner.com/): vox;  
** with special guests **
* Robert Mailer Anderson: vox (t09);
* [Brian Jackson](http://www.brianjackson.net/): keyboards, vox (t10);
* [Martin Luther McCoy](http://www.rebelsoulmusic.com/): vox (t10).


## Notes

We enjoyed a surprisingly easy drive over to San Francisco (on a Saturday night? Unprecedented!), made a quick stop for a Powerball ticket ($900B+?!, _Oh my!_), then lucked into an open parking spot on Fell, less than a block from SFJAZZ. Looks like everything is going our way!

We entered the building to find the house still closed, so we sat for a few minutes, surfing the web and nibbling from a bag of spicy nuts and dried fruit. Not really a dinner substitute, more just a bite to postpone the next meal awhile longer. And then the doors opened, and we made our way in to a choice pair of seats next to a staff guy shooting video of the pre-show talk for the house archives.

The talk itself was pretty good, and touched on a wide variety of topics: Eric's history, Brian's history, how Brian and Gil got started, how drummers manage to play different rhythms, and so on, and so on. Good stuff, I'm glad we made it!

And the show was excellent, if not quite up to the absolutely stellar mark set by [last night's](2016-01-08) Fela tribute. I was a trifle disappointed that they didn't include classics like _Lady Day and John Coltrane_, _Johannesburg_ or _We Almost Lost Detroit_, but you can't always get what you want, right? 

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