NOV 17-20 | JOE LOVANO
Nov 20, 2022
Miner Auditorium
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Original show description below.
Described by DownBeat magazine as “one of the foremost ensembles in jazz,” the Sound Prints quintet – co-led by Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas – is smart and loose, rambunctious and risk-taking. At SFJAZZ, the group will honor the great saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter, whose unconstrained, “anything is possible” approach to improvisation has inspired the quintet since its founding in 2013.
That year, the Monterey Jazz Festival commissioned Shorter to compose a pair of tunes for Sound Prints, which premiered them at the summer festival. Titled “Destination Unknown” and “To Sail Beyond the Sunset,” Shorter’s compositions set the stage for the quintet’s joyful and searching explorations of its growing repertoire. Whether playing its arrangements of 1960s classics by Shorter (“Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum,” “JuJu”) or its own originals, the group “burns hot, swings hard and showcases” its leaders’ “unmistakably vivid personalities,” DownBeat adds.
Whether playing its arrangements of
1960s classics by Shorter (“Fee-Fi-Fo-Fum,” “JuJu”) or its own originals, the group “burns hot, swings hard and showcases” its leaders’ “unmistakably vivid personalities" (DownBeat)
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› Joe Lovano Teams With Old Friends for Bay Area Show (Mercury News)
One of the foremost ensembles in jazz
downbeat
One of the foremost ensembles in jazz
downbeat
Personnel
Joe Lovano tenor and soprano saxophones
Dave Douglas trumpet
Lawrence Fields piano
Matt Penman bass
Joey Baron drums
Organic and basic, intense and casual…Mr. Lovano’s performance is a knockout.
The New York Times
Personnel
Joe Lovano tenor and soprano saxophones
Dave Douglas trumpet
Lawrence Fields piano
Matt Penman bass
Joey Baron drums
Organic and basic, intense and casual…Mr. Lovano’s performance is a knockout.
The New York Times
Watch & Listen
Joe Lovano: Sound Prints
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Joe Lovano: Sound Prints
Juju
Joe Lovano: Sound Prints
Fee Fi Fo Fum
Joe Lovano: Sound Prints
Juju
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