Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close Series Kicks Off with Danilo Pérez PANAMONK REVISITED Program, Nov. 13

OCTOBER 18, 2010

“When the dust settles, the pianist Danilo Pérez will be looking like one of the best things that happened to jazz around the turn of the millennium.” —New York Times

 

 The Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close series kicks off with Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Terri Lyne Carrington onstage performing PanaMonk Revisited on Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 7:30 pm in Perelman Theater. This year, Jazz Up Close celebrates influential jazz pianist Thelonious Monk, whose distinct sound continues to reverberate in jazz halls and clubs, nearly 30 years after his death.

 

With Pérez on piano, Patitucci on bass, and Carrington on drums, the trio brings Pan-Latin interpretations to Monk’s classics, such as “Round Midnight” and “Monk’s Mood,” repertoire tied to Perez’s tributary album, Panamonk (1996), and his new album release, Providencia (August 2010). An artist chat with Danilo Pérez takes place during intermission from Perelman Theater stage.

 

Panamanian-bred Danilo Pérez continues to explore global jazz in his new album release, Providencia, which crosses streams of jazz, classical and Latin American folk music together. “A place like Panama has had such an impact on the world,“ Pérez says, “That’s the globalization we’re talking about in the record.  In musical terms, what I see in the bridge of life, I see in these three types of music melting together: jazz, classical and Latin.  I want to keep developing those threads and make the combination really organic.”

 

“The pianist Danilo Pérez’s conception of jazz is wide-angle and egalitarian, if not utopian. He’s a hard-core linker of traditions and rhythms and disciplines; he wants everything to connect. This has been the point of his most ambitious records over 17 years, including Providencia.” —New York Times

 

Additional Jazz Up Close series concerts this season include: Geri Allen Quartet on Saturday, December 4, 2010 at 7:30pm;  Randy Weston Quintet on Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 7:30pm;  and Martial Solal* on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 7:30pm (*2011 PIFA event).

 

Tickets for PanaMonk Revisited: Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Terri Lyne Carrington are available from $32 to $38 by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center Box Office located on Broad and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102, which is open daily from 10am to 6pm.


A limited number of $10 community rush tickets will be available for this performance. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning at 5:30pm prior to evening curtain time. Limit one ticket per person.

 

Danilo Pérez received his first big break as a jazz musician in 1989 when he was asked to join Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nations Orchestra, which included performing on piano for the Grammy winning recording, Live at the Royal Festival (1991). Currently, Pérez is a member of the Wayne Shorter Quartet and also dedicates time for his own musical endeavors.  In his latest album release, Music We Are (April 2009), Pérez teamed up with musical icons Jack DeJohnette (drums) John Patitucci (bass), to create a musical collaboration that “not only transcends the expectations of the format, but stretches the boundaries of music” (All About Jazz). 

 

Born in Panama in 1965, Pérez began studying at the National Conservatory in Panama at the young age of 10. After earning a degree in electronics, Pérez changed his major to music, eventually attending the Berklee College of Music.  Notably, Pérez has received three Grammy nominations, is the president and founder of the Panama Jazz Festival and the first jazz musician to ever perform with the Panamanian Symphony Orchestra. In 1994, his album release, The Journey, won the Jazziz Critics Choice Award.

 

Pérez is currently a faculty member of the New England Conservatory and Berklee College of Music.  Pérez also serves as artistic advisor of the Kimmel Center’s Jazz Up Close series, which pays tribute to Thelonious Monk for the 2010-11 season.  Additionally,  he is an active member in various communities, serving as an ambassador of goodwill for UNICEF and cultural ambassador of Panama.

 

Drummer, composer, producer and clinician Terri Lyne Carrington, was born in 1965 in Medford, Massachusetts. After an extensive touring career of over 20 years with luminaries like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Al Jarreau, Stan Getz, David Sanborn, Joe Sample, Cassandra Wilson, Clark Terry, Dianne Reeves and more, she recently returned to her hometown where she was appointed professor at her alma mater, Berklee College of Music. Terri Lyne also received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2003. In 1989, Ms. Carrington released a Grammy nominated debut CD, Real Life Story.  Additional solo CDs include Jazz is a Spirit (2002), Structure (2004), and More To Say... (2008).

 

Born in 1959 in Brooklyn, New York, John Patitucci began composing and performing at age 12, exploring soul and rock, blues, jazz and classical music thereafter on acoustic bass and piano. He studied classical bass at San Francisco State University and Long Beach State University. In 1980, he continued his career in Los Angeles as a studio musician and a jazz artist. In the fall of 2001, Patitucci was a member of Herbie Hancock’s all-star quintet, Directions in Music, which also featured Michael Brecker, Roy Hargrove and Brian Blade. The quintet’s 2001 U.S. tour produced the release of the Grammy Award winning album, Live at Massey Hall.

 

Kimmel Center, Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit organization, owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center.  Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the University of the Arts’ Merriam Theater. Our mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience from throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. The 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Citi, and the Broadway 2010/2011 season is sponsored by Verizon, and American Airlines.  For additional information, visit kimmelcenter.org.

 

Subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.

 

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