SEP 26-27 | Don Was
Sep 26 - Sep 27, 2024
Miner Auditorium
Recommended by Terence Blanchard
"I just performed with them and loved Don Was because he is a musician’s musician who has so much respect for the tradition of jazz. This has allowed him to become President of Blue Note. Some of those guys have played together for 30 years. It is great to see an ensemble have that much fun."
ABOUT THIS SHOW
Superstar producer, composer, podcaster, musician, and Blue Note Records president Don Was brings the distinctive musical flavor of his Motor City hometown to these dates. His Pan-Detroit Ensemble is made up of many of the city’s great jazz musicians including saxophonist Dave McMurray, keyboardist Luis Resto, and vocalist Steffanie Christi’an, with a sound marked by a funky, urban rawness and bone-deep grooves.
Taking inspiration from a wide range of Detroit jazz, blues, funk, and rock legends including John Lee Hooker, Donald Byrd, Joe Henderson, George Clinton, Mitch Ryder, and The Stooges, Was’s Pan-Detroit Ensemble contains multitudes.
Their repertoire spans a mix of new originals and resonant interpretations of songs written by exploratory Detroiters Yusef Lateef, Olu Dara, and Henry Threadgill, as well as material from Was’s personal projects Orquestra Was and Was (Not Was).
In Was’s own words, “There’s a unique sound and feel to Detroit that permeates the music in a way that resonates all over the globe. There is a rawness, a lack of pretension and an unmistakable, underlying groove that reflects the people and culture of the city.” Join us for these two nights with an American original.
Superstar producer, composer, podcaster, musician, and Blue Note Records president Don Was brings the distinctive musical flavor of his Motor City hometown to these dates. His Pan-Detroit Ensemble is made up of many of the city’s great jazz musicians.
The veteran, multi-GRAMMY-winning musician/producer and current president of Blue Note Records is one of those virtual Renaissance men who always seems to have many pots a stirring
Greatful Web
The veteran, multi-GRAMMY-winning musician/producer and current president of Blue Note Records is one of those virtual Renaissance men who always seems to have many pots a stirring
Greatful Web
Personnel
Don Was bass, vocals
Dave McMurray tenor saxophone
John Douglas trumpet
Vincent Chandler trombone
Wayne Gerard guitar
Luis Resto keyboards
Jeff Canady drums
Mahindi percussion
Steffanie Christi'an vocals
Don Was is one of the most famous and fêted producers on the planet today. Over the last 15 years, he's collected a list of credits so long and impressive that it makes you gasp
Sound on Sound
Personnel
Don Was bass, vocals
Dave McMurray tenor saxophone
John Douglas trumpet
Vincent Chandler trombone
Wayne Gerard guitar
Luis Resto keyboards
Jeff Canady drums
Mahindi percussion
Steffanie Christi'an vocals
Don Was is one of the most famous and fêted producers on the planet today. Over the last 15 years, he's collected a list of credits so long and impressive that it makes you gasp
Sound on Sound
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