SFJAZZ presents Gregory Porter
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, August 1, 2019

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[7:33 PM lights down, RK announcements, band out]

1. [7:36 PM] On My Way to Harlem
   [banter: first show back in America after being on tour in Europe, happy to be on US soil]
2. [7:48 PM] Wisdom
   [GP: “So nice to be in SF where you can pull out your winter clothes in the middle of summertime…”]
3. [8:02 PM] (Introduction to Liquid spirit) »
4. [8:04 PM] Liquid Spirit
   [Band off]
5. [8:10 PM] Wolfcry
   [drop CC; add JN]
6. [8:15 PM] (bass solo) » (add band) »
7. [8:18 PM] Papa Was a Rolling Stone »
8. [8:21 PM] Musical Genocide Medley:
   Musical Genocide » [CC teases: San Francisco (Open Your Golden Gate) » ? » I Left My Heart in San Francisco] » ? (audience singalong) “Still in love with you” » (band jam) War/No More Trouble » Musical Genocide » [GP vocal riffs: Let There Be Peace on Earth » What the World Needs Now » A Change Is Gonna Come » Someday We'll All Be Free » Musical Genocide » Nature Boy » Musical Genocide » Oh Freedom!] » Musical Genocide
9. [8:36 PM] Insanity
10. [8:43 PM] Be Good (Lion's Song)
11. [8:51 PM] Take Me to the Alley
12. [9:05 PM] 1960 What?
    [set ends 9:15 PM; all off, back in a minute or two]
    
    Encore
13. [9:15 PM] (new tune, “You can join my band”)
    [show ends 9:27 PM; all off, lights up]

• Chip Crawford: piano;
• Emanuel Harrold: drums, harmony vox;
• Jahmal Nichols: bass, contrabass;
• Gregory Porter: vox;
• Tivon Pennicott: tenor saxophone;
• Ondrej Pivec: piano, Hammond B-3 organ, keyboards.

A top notch evening from Gregory Porter and his crack band! The audience took a while longer than the band to get warmed up, but by midway through the show, they were shouting requests at every break. Based on Gregory's comments, my guess is that a few of the latter tunes were selected in response to that input. Interesting!

I probably missed a few ID's from the Musical Genocide medley … sometimes the riffs only lasted a few seconds before transmuting into something different: not quite long enough for me to summon anything to write!

No pictures tonight, since Ting didn't attend, and like an idiot, I forgot to grab the camera. Oh well!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2019 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2019 event list! ☸ On to the next event!