21st-Century Dizzy
Danilo Perez
Danilo Perez, piano
David Sanchez, tenor saxophone
Rudresh Mahanthappa, alto saxophone
Jamey Haddad, percussion
Ben Street, bass
Adam Cruz, drums
Amir ElSaffar, trumpet and vocals
Thursday, April 8, 8 pm
Hill Auditorium
| Main Floor | $50 · $44 · $36 · $22 |
| Mezzanine | $38 · $32 · $10 |
| Balcony | $26 · $22 · $18 · $10 |
Panamanian jazz pianist Danilo Perez brings together a global, all-star band that celebrates the music and bountiful inspiration of his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie, the great jazz trumpeter who invented the modern jazz sounds of bebop, was a major influence on the widespread acceptance of Afro-Cuban jazz. As the youngest member of Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra, which featured some of the best and brightest young jazz musicians the world had to offer, Perez learned first-hand how Gillespie embraced musical and personal collaborations throughout the world. Perez’ new band performs arrangements of classic Gillespie tunes in addition to original group compositions. Dizzy’s bands were a constant melting pot of styles, genres, and pan-global collaborations. Danilo’s hand-picked band, with roots in Afro-Cuban, bebop, Indian, African, and Middle Eastern music, pays tribute to Dizzy’s legendary vision. “When the dust settles, the pianist Danilo Perez will be looking like one of the best things that happened to jazz around the turn of the millennium.” (The New York Times)
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Funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts as part of American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius. |