SFJAZZ presents Branford Marsalis Quartet
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, October 21, 2021

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[7:33 PM] {lights down; greetings and announcements by Randall Kline; band out; Branford rambles awhile}

1. [7:38 PM] Dance of the Evil Toys
2. [7:50 PM] Conversation Among the Ruins
3. [8:01 PM] Teo
   [8:13 PM] {back announcements and banter from Branford}
4. [8:14 PM] A Thousand Autumns
5. [8:28 PM] On the Sunny Side of the Street
6. [8:40 PM] Nilaste
   [8:52 PM] {set ends}
   
   Encore
   [8:53 PM] {back announcements and more banter}
7. [8:55 PM] (unidentified traditional tune, with two surprise guests!)
   [9:07 PM] {show ends; lights up after a minute or so}

Branford Marsalis Quartet

• Joey Calderazzo: piano;
• Justin Faulkner: drums;
• Branford Marsalis: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone;
• Eric Revis: contrabass.

• Andrew Speight: alto saxophone;
• Steve Wilson: tenor saxophone.

For all Branford's self-deprecation, I thought tonight's gig was great: the group might not have played together much in the past 18 months, but they sounded great to me! My only complaint would be that the show leaned heavily on the same tunes I heard them playing in 2019: maybe that was just my bad luck, but given that this band has been together over 20 years, I kind of expected they'd be drawing from a bigger song-bag. Looking at things another way, the show was made up of three tunes from latest album, The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul, one from 2012's Four MFs Playin' Tunes, one from 1999's Requiem, and two traditional tunes: maybe I'm whining too much!

I'm guessing that Steve Wilson is the guy who sat in first during the encore tonight. Branford introduced him as “Teddy Wilson”, which seems very likely wrong (famous pianist, died 1986?, Nah!). Andrew Speight is definitely correct for the 2nd guest, on alto saxophone.

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Joshua Rotter promoed the show for the Examiner.

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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