NOV 17-20 | JOE LOVANO
Nov 18, 2022
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
For about five years in the early 2000s, Lovano played in a quartet with Hank Jones, a dean of jazz piano whose career stretched back to the 1930s and included stints with Benny Goodman, Charlie Parker and Ella Fitzgerald. They recorded four albums and became friends: “With Hank, there was a lot of love and a lot of beautiful magical moments,” he says. This program – dedicated to the memory of Jones, who passed away in 2010 at age 91 — is Lovano’s attempt to recapture some of that love and magic.
With his superb Classic Quartet, including pianist Renee Rosnes (a founding member of the SFJAZZ Collective), bassist Peter Washington and drummer Lewis Nash, the
GRAMMY-winning Lovano will sample the repertoire that he explored with Jones beginning in 2003 on the Blue Note album I’m All For You.
On that album and three subsequent Blue Note recordings — Joyous Encounter, Kids: Live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola and Classic! Live at Newport — he and the pianist created what Lovano describes as a “tapestry” of music. “We developed an amazing repertoire and we had an amazing friendship,” Lovano says. “In life, everything happens in a certain divine timing. Reflecting on my time with Hank by playing this music again in San Francisco — it’s something else.”
Says Lovano, “In life, everything happens in a certain divine timing. Reflecting on my time with Hank by playing this music again in San Francisco — it’s something else.”
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Personnel
Joe Lovano tenor saxophone
Renee Rosnes piano
Peter Washington bass
Lewis Nash drums
An urbane, on-the-fly counterpoint brimming with crooked urgency
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Personnel
Joe Lovano tenor saxophone
Renee Rosnes piano
Peter Washington bass
Lewis Nash drums
An urbane, on-the-fly counterpoint brimming with crooked urgency
The New York Times on Dave Douglas Quintet
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