SFJAZZ presents South African Legends: Jazz Epistles featuring Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya with Wadada Leo Smith
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, February 22, 2018

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[7:37 PM lights down; Abdullah Ibrahim out alone once RK wraps up his rambling announcements]

1. [7:42 PM] ? (unidentified solo piano medley) »
   (add cello & flute)
2. [7:51 PM] ? Χ£ »
   (cello swaps to contrabass, flute to alto sax, add rest of Ekaya)
3. [7:55 PM] ? α
4. [8:02 PM] ? α
5. [8:05 PM] ? α†
6. [8:11 PM] ? α£
7. [8:18 PM] ? α†
8. [8:25 PM] (drum solo)
9. [8:30 PM] ? α
10. [8:40 PM] ? (piano solo) »
11. [8:46 PM] ? Χ£ (no piano) »
12. [8:49 PM] ? (piano solo) »
    [8:50 PM] ? (add bass, drums) »
    [8:51 PM] ? π »
    [8:54 PM] ? (JM solo) »
    [8:57 PM] ? (AM solo) »
    [9:00 PM] ? (KL solo) »
    [9:04 PM] ? (head) »
    [9:05 PM] (drum solo) »
    [9:05 PM] ? (head again)
13. [9:06 PM] ? α†
14. [9:13 PM] ? (piano solo)
15. [9:20 PM] ? α
    [set ends 9:25 PM; pause for bows and applause]
    
    Finale
16. [9:28 PM] ?
    [show ends 9:37 PM]

Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya

• Lance Bryant: tenor saxophone;
• Cleave Guyton: £ flute, π piccolo, α alto saxophone;
• Abdullah Ibrahim: piano;
• Noah Jackson: Χ cello, contrabass;
• Marshall McDonald: baritone saxophone;
• Andrae Murchison: trombone.
• Will Terrill: drums.

• Wadada Leo Smith: † trumpet;

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry!

• Tonight's gig seemed really under rehearsed to me: lots of hand signalling and long, aimless solos.
• WLS hardly played at all, and what he contributed didn't really fit in that well: like adding hot peppercorns to vanilla ice cream.
• The show was billed as a tribute to the Jazz Epistles, but it didn't seem to me as if they played any of the hard bop repertoire of that band: instead, the pieces sounded to me like the newer chamber jazz compositions that Abdullah Ibrahim has been performing for the past few years.

Andrew Gilbert posted an informative promo article about the run for KQED.

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