Maceo Parker at Miner Auditorium, December 28, 2017

SFJAZZ presents Maceo Parker and opener, Sugar Pie DeSanto
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, December 28, 2017

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[7:33 PM lights down, band out]

1. [7:34 PM] I Don't Wanna Fuss
2. [7:41 PM] Life Goes On
   [Swap in little brother Domingo on bass]
3. [7:48 PM] In The Basement
   [set ends 7:55 PM; all off after a few minutes banter from Sugar Pie]

[8:02 PM lights down, emcee out to call up the band, one by one]

1. [8:06 PM] Off the Hook
2. [8:18 PM] Make It Funky [everyone sits out the next tune except WB & Maceo]
3. [8:29 PM] The Very Thought of You
4. [8:31 PM] Baby Knows
5. [8:41 PM] ? (Maceo introduces this one as “Spanish Harlem funk” … chant lyrics: “we say ooh-yeah”)
   [banter with the crowd about young sax player]
   [everyone offstage except GB & WB for the next tune]
6. [8:57 PM] There Is No Greater Love
7. [9:00 PM] ? “and we love you” (Maceo goofing around, sings opera style, then Ray Charles style) [everyone back onstage while Maceo yacks]
8. [9:04 PM] Gimme Some More » [9:11 PM] ? Lucy or Juicy ? » [9:17 PM] (guest alto solo)
9. [9:20 PM] Let's Get It On (w/tease of Breezin' from Bruno)
10. [9:28 PM] J.B. Funk » [9:32 PM] drum solo
    [9:32 PM Maceo talks awhile about Ray Charles]
11. [9:36 PM] You Don't Know Me
12. [9:39 PM] (bass solo) »
13. [9:42 PM] Stand By Me (DP) £
14. [9:48 PM] Funky Good Time
15. [9:56 PM] Moonlight in Vermont
16. [9:58 PM] (unidentified instrumental)
    [set ends 10:01 PM]
    
    Encore
17. [10:03 PM] “Slow Blues in B-flat” (not quite Drifting Blues) »
18. [10:05 PM] Pass the Peas »
19. [10:10 PM] Put Your Lovin' in the Layaway
    [10:13 PM one by one, the musicians stop playing and leave the stage]
    [show ends 10:15 PM]

• Greg Boyer: trombone, harmony vox;
• Will Boulware: keyboards;
• Rodney “Skeet” Curtis: bass;
• Pete MacLean: drums;
• Darliene Parker: lead and harmony vox;
• Maceo Parker: alto saxophone, £ flute, lead and harmony vox;
• Bruno Speight: guitar;
  - with special guest (from the audience) -
• Terry Lewis, II: alto saxophone.

• A.J: bass (except t03);
• Dave: keyboards, harmony vox;
• Roberto: guitar, harmony vox;
• Little Domingo Balinton: bass (t03);
• Sugar Pie DeSanto: vox;
• Michael Skinner: drums, harmony vox.

Whoa! This section is incomplete for now, sorry! Sad news from Sugar Pie: she mentioned during her set that she's fighting throat cancer. 'Course that didn't stop her from doing back rolls and splits during her short set. Amazing! And checking in via the Internet, the word via a review posted by Mariza Tavares is that the prognosis is good!

So it turns out that Terry Lewis is in a local funk band, True Funk Soldiers, which leads me to think his appearance with Maceo tonight was a well-planned act akin to photo-bombing: fortunately, the guy can play, and he did his part to tear the roof off the sucka when Maceo told him it was time to blow.

Andrew Gilbert wrote a nice promo article for the show at the Mercury News.

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