# Avishai Cohen Quartet & Wadada Leo Smith Quartet at Miner Auditorium, October 25, 2019

[SFJAZZ](https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/avishai-cohen-wadada-leo-smith/) presents a double bill: the [Avishai Cohen Quartet](http://www.avishaicohenmusic.com/) & the [Wadada Leo Smith](http://www.wadadaleosmith.com/) Quartet  
[Robert M. Miner Auditorium](http://www.sfjazz.org/center)  
[SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=SFJAZZ+Center,+205+Franklin+St,+San+Francisco,+CA+94102+USA&hl=en)  
7:30 PM, Friday, October 25, 2019

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## Set One: Wadada Leo Smith Quartet

[7:33 PM; lights down; announcements from Randall Kline; waiting]

01. [7:39 PM] (unidentified tune \#1)
02. [8:11 PM] (unidentified tune \#2)  
[set ends 8:31 PM; no encore]

### Performers

* [Pheeroan akLaff](https://pheeroanaklaff.com/): drums;
* [Erika Dohi](https://www.erikadohi.com/): piano;
* [Wadada Leo Smith](http://www.wadadaleosmith.com/): trumpet;
* [Ashley Walters](https://www.ashleywalterscello.com/): cello.

## Set Two: Avishai Cohen Quartet

[8:52 PM; lights down; waiting]

01. [8:53 PM] (unidentified tune \#1)
02. [9:04 PM] (unidentified tune \#2)  
[9:20 PM; AC back announces the first tunes as coming from his album _Cross My Palm with Silver_]
03. [9:22 PM] _Life & Death_  
[9:31 PM; brief introduction from AC]
04. [9:32 PM] _Into the Silence_  
[9:49 PM; AC tells us that for the last piece, he will be reading a poem by Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky]
05. [9:50 PM] _Departure_  
[set ends 9:55 PM; bows and then off; no encore tonight]

### Performers

* [Fabian Almazán](http://www.fabianalmazan.com/): piano;
* [Avishai Cohen](http://www.avishaicohenmusic.com/): trumpet;
* [Barak Mori](http://www.barakmori.com/): bass;
* [Ziv Ravitz](https://www.zivravitz.com/): drums.

## Notes

Randall Kline comments in his introduction that John Lindberg is absent from tonight's show for being sick and unable to travel.

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## Photos

Today's photo gallery comes from ol' squinty!
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Andrew Gilbert posted a [promo article](https://www.sfcv.org/article/ecm-and-the-silence-in-the-sound) for the "ECM fest" at SFCV.

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