SFJAZZ presents Benny Green Trio plays Happiness! featuring Dezron Douglas, Benny Green and Kenny Washington
Joe Henderson Lab
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Late Show, Sunday, November 5, 2017

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[7:35 PM lights down, announcements, band out; 2 minutes dead air waiting for Benny]

1. [7:39 PM] Pittsburgh Brethren
2. [7:52 PM] the St. Vitus Dance
3. [7:58 PM] Enchanted Forest
   [Benny talks about being in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers]
4. [8:05 PM] Latin America
5. [8:17 PM] (unidentified tune)
6. [8:28 PM] (identified, but Benny's mumble was inaudible to me)
7. [8:34 PM] Idle Moments
8. [8:47 PM] Groundwork
   [show ends 8:59 PM, no encore]

• Dezron Douglas: contrabass;
• Benny Green: piano;
• Kenny Washington: drums.

Benny's mom was present for both sets tonight (and possibly others during the week, for all I know); it was kind of cute to see him looking over at her to make eye contact and mouth a silent “I love you” during the show.

The set was great, and I appreciated arriving early to hear the latter half of the early show over the PA in the noisy SFJAZZ lobby.

I was a little bummed that Benny omitted playing any Monk tunes tonight, but maybe he scratched that itch earlier in the week, and felt like stretching out. I'd say that most of the songs tonight were right up the hard bop alley. My favorite for the set was Idle Moments, a slow-burning late night blues by Duke Pearson, recorded as the title track of Grant Green's 1963 release for Blue Note Records: perfect mood music for a sleepy Sunday night.

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