About This Event
We are adding a FREE show on Sunday, Sept 14th that will feature Danilo Pérez, Adam Cruz, and Ben Street performing with The Alluvion Big Band!
THIS IS A FREE SHOW, BUT A TICKET IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY - Space is limited.
This very special “bonus show” is made available while the trio is still in Traverse City after their Sept 13th Alluvion Jazz Series performance. This is an extremely rare opportunity and a true gift for the community.
We are thrilled to offer this once-in-a-lifetime concert that also serves as a celebration of global humanitarianism as we host Danilo Pérez in TC during his only Michigan appearance of the year. His outstanding presence in the jazz world as a Grammy Award winner, pianist for Wayne Shorter and Dizzy Gillespie, with a unique blend of jazz and his Panamanian roots is combined with promoting music as a borderless and multidimensional bridge between all people. Pérez is Cultural Ambassador to The Republic of Panama and a UNESCO Artist for Peace.
We are honored to make this happen, and to be able to invite the community in for a beautiful afternoon of music, peace, and joy.
The Alluvion Big Band directed by Chris Glassman featuring:
Danilo Pérez - Piano
Adam Cruz - Drums
Ben Street - Bass
As a solo artist and as a collaborator with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Wayne Shorter, for over 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 the anchoring foundation, 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 and multidimensional bridge between all people.
Born in Panama in 1965, Danilo Pérez started his musical studies when he was three years old with his father, a bandleader and singer. By age 10, he was studying the European classical piano repertoire at the National Conservatory in Panama. After receiving his bachelor’s 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 established as a young master, he soon toured and/or recorded with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra from 1989-1992, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Gary Burton, and Roy Haynes.
Pérez, who served as Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF, has received a variety of awards for his musical achievements, activism and social work efforts. He is a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award in 2021, the United States Fellowship 2018, and the 2009 Smithsonian Legacy Award. He currently serves as 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 Boston’s Berklee College of Music.
Doors open at 2:30 - Music at 3:00
THIS IS A FREE SHOW, BUT A TICKET IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY
Fully seated, listening room style show
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Artist-centered music venue & event space on floor 2 of Commongrounds Cooperative. 414 E 8th Street, Traverse City, MI. A small venue doing big things.
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