SFJAZZ presents Danilo Pérez with Avishai Cohen, Larry Grenadier, Chris Potter, and Nate Smith
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
8:00 PM, Sunday, October 14, 2018

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[8:03 PM lights down, no announcements of any kind tonight (!?!), band out]

1. [8:05 PM] Beloved (Danilo Pérez, inspired by Toni Morrison)
2. [8:nn PM] Tea Cake (Chris Potter, inspired by Zora Neale Hurston)
3. [8:41 PM] Innovation Africa (Avishai Cohen, inspired by Sivan Ya’ari)
4. [9:01 PM] ? Departure (Avishai Cohen reads a poem by Zelda Schneurson Mishkovsky)
5. [9:07 PM] ? (unidentified, probably a CP piece, inspired by Jesmyn Ward)
6. [9:17 PM] Alternate Reality (Danilo Pérez, inspired by Angela Davis)
   [set ends 9:30 PM; group bow; all off after a minute or so]
    
   Encore
7. [9:32 PM] Still I Rise (?, inspired by Maya Angelou)
   [show ends 9:41 PM; bows and applause, then all off in a minute]

• Avishai Cohen: trumpet.
• Larry Grenadier: contrabass;
• Danilo Pérez: piano;
• Chris Potter: tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone;
• Ira Nathaniel "Nate" Smith: drums.

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Tonight was the second-ever performance for this group (here's a review of the first performance, from 10/10/18 in Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress.)

Jaclson Sinnenberg posted a nice interview with Danilo as a preview of that first gig.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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