SFJAZZ presents Marc Ribot's Ceramic Dog featuring Shahzad Ismaily and Ches Smith
2014-05-30
Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA
7:30 PM, Friday, May 30, 2014

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[7:33 PM lights down, announcements by RK]

1. [7:35 PM] ?
2. [7:45 PM] Masters of the Internet
3. [7:49 PM] Take Five
4. [7:58 PM] ?
5. [8:06 PM] La Noyée (Serge Gainsbourg/Emily Wittman)
6. [8:12 PM] ?
7. [8:16 PM] ?
8. [8:23 PM] ?
9. [8:25 PM] Drool
10. [8:31 PM] Sometime Jailhouse Blues
11. [8:37 PM] ?
12. [8:40 PM] ?
13. [8:42 PM] ?
14. [8:47 PM] ? going downtown
    [set ends 8:53 PM]
     
    Encore
15. [8:55 PM] ? (new song in D minor)
16. [9:04 PM] ?
    [show ends 9:10 PM; all off by 9:11 PM]

• Shahzad Ismaily: bass, guitar, moog synthesizer, percussion, drums, electronics;
• Marc Ribot: guitar;
• Ches Smith: drums, percussion, drum machines.

I thought tonight's show was a real hoot. Plenty of ugly raw noise, blended with copious measures of beauty, delicacy, whimsy and groove. It's not hard to understand that this might not be the most popular sort of thing for other music-lovers to listen to, but still, I was surprised that the house was less than half full. A shame, really!

Talking to an usher on Sunday about whether there would be one set or two, she suggested that tonight's long performance occurred that way because Ribot simply forgot to take a break. Maybe! Didn't bother me much to lose the intermission.

Dave Pehling posted an interesting interview with Marc on the KTVU site.

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