SFJAZZ presents East Meets West featuring Zakir Hussain and Joshua Redman
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
Late Show, 7:00 PM, Sunday, September 17, 2017

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[7:07 PM lights down, announcements from Randall Kline, band out]

1. [7:12 PM] Punjab
2. [7:26 PM] Hide and Seek
   [7:35 PM banter from Joshua]
3. [7:40 PM] ? sounded like Shocking $
4. [7:49 PM] (unidentified tune)
   [banter from Zakir]
5. [8:01 PM] Red Cross
6. [8:07 PM] (Zakir solo)
7. [8:17 PM] (Joshua solo) 'Round Midnight
8. [8:25 PM] Zarafah $
   [set ends 8:39 PM; bow and then off]
    
   Encore
   [Joshua talks awhile about his mom]
9. [8:45 PM] St. Thomas
   [show ends 8:53 PM]

• Zakir Hussain: tabla, percussion, sruti box, vox;
• Joshua Redman: $ soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone.

Tonight's show was pretty darn good. Especially the first pair of tunes, setting a high bar for the rest of the performance!

It was kind of funny hearing that Joshua wasn't interested in trying Sonny Rollins' Oleo with Zakir – they opted to play Charlie Parker's Red Cross instead. I'm gonna guess that with Rollins' St. Thomas already intended as the encore, Joshua simply wanted to spread the composer credits around.

I thought it was interesting that they restricted themselves to a single solo tune apiece: given that today was their first performance together, I was expecting to hear a bit less structure and more aimless improvisation. My bad for selling these guys short!

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