SFJAZZ presents French Jazz Vocalist featuring Cyrille Aimée
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Sunday, May 13, 2018

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[7:31 PM lights down, announcements from SBD, band out]

1. [7:32 PM] I Could Have Danced All Night ß
2. [7:38 PM] Whatever Lola Wants ß
3. [7:45 PM] Blackbird
4. [7:54 PM] Off the Wall ß
5. [7:59 PM] Inside and Out %
6. [8:05 PM] Each Day ß
   [all off but CA, TS]
7. [8:12 PM] You Stepped Out of a Dream
   [TS off; CA moves over to the looping sampler]
8. [8:22 PM] ? (unidentified tune about pulling up her roots and moving to New Orleans; lyrics: “If you want to be with me, get ready to leave this town”)
   [band back]
9. [8:28 PM] Yatra Ta %ß
10. [8:34 PM] I'll Be Seeing You ß
11. [8:39 PM] ? (unidentified tune; lyrics: “been a couple weeks / you've been gone”) %
    [set ends 8:48 PM; applause, bows, then all off for a minute or so]
    
    Encore
12. [8:50 PM] Nuit Blanche %
    [show ends 8:59 PM]

• Cyrille Aimée: vox, looping sampler;
• Dani Danor: drums;
• Hila Kulik: piano, % Nord keyboard, vox;
• Tamir Shmerling: 5-string bass, ß contrabass;
• Wayne Tucker: trumpet, vox.

Pretty light attendance tonight – with the balcony closed, I'd say the rest of the house wasn't much more than 3/4 full. Too bad! Cyrille is a great singer, and she put on a fine show with her band tonight.

I thought it started off great, but Blackbird and Off the Wall didn't really do it for me, and I felt additionally let down with the original tunes that came up later in the set.

Guess that makes me a nostalgia freak, right? I'd rather hear the band wail on timeless classics than shuffle their way through new pseudo-pop that hints at striving after that vein that Norah Jones struck gold with.

Tania Maria's Yatra Ta was an unexpected treat; without Cyrille's back announce afterwards I wouldn't have known the title (given that it's a wordless, scat-vocal only tune, I hadn't jotted anything that would help me ID it).

Today's band was darn good, but I missed the guitarist from last summer's show; Wayne Tucker's trumpet was a fine substitute, but gypsy swing rhythms? Nah, can't do that on a trumpet.

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Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2018 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2018 event list! ☸ On to the next event!