ZenArt Management presents: The Danilo Pérez Trio Feat Danilo Perez – John Patitucci – Adam Cruz
Exclusively in Italy only – in collaboration with imnnetwork.com – three overseas music stars united together in a single project that will stop at the biggest theaters in Italy and Europe! Danilo Pérez is a UNESCO Artist for Peace, cultural ambassador to the Republic of Panama, founder and artistic director of the Panama Jazz Festival, and founder and Artistic Director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute at Berklee College of Music in Boston.
John Patitucci was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1959 and began playing electric bass at the age of ten, later trying his hand at acoustic bass and piano. He quickly switched from playing soul and rock to blues, jazz, and classical music-his eclectic tastes made him explore all genres of music as a musician and composer. His six solo recordings for GRP Records and his subsequent recordings have brought him two Grammy Awards and over fifteen Grammy nominations.
Danilo Pérez
As a solo artist and as a collaborator with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Wayne Shorter, for more than three decades Grammy® Award-winning Panamanian pianist-composer Danilo Pérez has been lauded as one of the most creative forces in contemporary music. With jazz as his anchor base, Pérez’s Global Jazz music is a blend of Panamanian roots, Latin American folk music, West African rhythms, European impressionism – promoting music as a borderless, multidimensional bridge between all people.
Born in Panama in 1965, Pérez began his musical studies at the age of three with his father, a bandleader and singer. By age 10 he was studying the European classical piano repertoire at the National Conservatory of Panama. After earning a degree in electronics in Panama, he studied jazz composition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. While still a student, he performed with Jon Hendricks, Terence Blanchard, Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi and Paquito D’Rivera. Quickly establishing himself as a young maestro, he soon toured and/or recorded with such artists as Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra from 1989 to 1992, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Gary Burton and Roy Haynes.
In 1993, Pérez focused on his own ensembles and recording projects, releasing several albums as leader, earning Grammy® and Latin Grammy® nominations for Central Avenue (1998), Motherland (2000), Across The Crystal Sea (2008), and Providence (2010). Pérez joined the Wayne Shorter Quartet in 2010 with John Patitucci and Brian Blade. The latter iteration of Shorter has been known as a unique and predominant force in improvised music both in their historic live performances and on various recordings.
Pérez, who has served as a goodwill ambassador to UNICEF, has received numerous awards for his musical achievements, activism and social engagement. He received the 2018 United States Fellowship and the 2009 Smithsonian Legacy Award. He is currently a UNESCO Artist for Peace, cultural ambassador to the Republic of Panama, founder and artistic director of the Panama Jazz Festival and the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, Brian Blade – Legacy of Wayne Shorter – Special guest Ravi Coltrane
Among the most intensely admired composers in jazz, Wayne Shorter is a true legend whose career has spanned more than half a century. The golden era of this saxophonist’s extraordinary musical journey was marked by the formation of his quartet with Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci and Brian Blade, who went on to confound all preconceptions of jazz in a prolific 24-year career of Grammy Award-winning concerts and recordings. Shorter’s great musical legacy lives on through this kindred trio. Critically acclaimed and Grammy-nominated saxophonist, bandleader and composer Ravi Coltrane completes this inspired exploration of the unknown, following a series of highly successful concerts celebrating Shorter’s symphonic works.
Performing their own interpretations of Shorter’s compositions, this quartet seeks to honor his seminal contribution to jazz.
