SFJAZZ presents Dorado Schmitt & Django All-Stars
2016-11-25
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Friday, November 25, 2016

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[7:31 PM; lights down, announcements and band introduction by Pat Philips]

1. [7:34 PM] Night and Day
2. [7:43 PM] I Found a New Baby
3. [7:50 PM] Blues for Ike
   [banter from Ludovic; Dorado swaps to violin; drop Pierre & Ludovic; add Amati]
4. [8:00 PM] For Grappelli
   [Dorado heads offstage]
5. [8:06 PM] (unidentified tune #1)
6. [8:12 PM] (unidentified tune #2)
   [Dorado, Pierre & Ludovic return]
7. [8:19 PM] Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
8. [8:29 PM] How High the Moon
   [set ends 8:39 PM; all up for bows, then off for break]

[8:59 PM; lights down, here comes the band…]

1. [9:00 PM] Dream of You
2. [9:08 PM] Swing 48
   [banter from Pierre; LB swaps to accordina]
3. [9:17 PM] For Dorado
4. [9:24 PM] (unidentified tune #3)
   [banter from Ludovic; drop Dorado, Pierre & Ludovic; add Amati]
5. [9:31 PM] Moonlight
6. [9:37 PM] (unidentified tune #4)
   [Dorado, Pierre & Ludovic return]
7. [9:42 PM] Nocturne
8. [9:49 PM] Minor Swing
   [set ends 9:56 PM; bows, on the way out, Amati bonks his head on the violin mic]
    
   Encore
9. [9:59 PM; goofing around with bits and teases]
10. [10:00 PM] ? Tchavolo Swing
    [show ends 10:03 PM; more bows, all off in a minute or so]

• Ludovic Beier: accordion (s1t01-03, 07-08, s2t01-02, 04, 07-10), accordina (s2t03);
• Pierre Blanchard: violin (s1t01-03, 07-08, s2t01-04, 07-10);
• Philippe Doudou Cuillerier: acoustic guitar;
• Xavier Nikq: contrabass;
• Sonny Amati Schmitt: acoustic guitar (s1t05-08, s2t05-10);
• Dorado Schmitt: Gibson hollow-body electric guitar (s1t01-03, 07-08, s2t01-04), violin (s1t04, s2t08-10).

• Another really fun show … very high levels of talent on display tonight!
• Very helpful to have LB and PB back announcing the tunes – it let's me correct things that I'd otherwise have goofed. For example, I had Dream of You noted as “not quite Honeysuckle Rose”
• LB teases Amati for deviating from the setlist, and needles him that Bon soir and Moonlight are the same song.
• Dorado switches to violin for the last few minutes of Minor Swing
• The band goofs off by throwing riffs and licks around at the start of the encore, as if to say, “Oh, let's play this”, or “Nah, how about this instead” How many times? 4? 8? Lots!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2016 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2016 event list! ☸ On to the next event!