Legacy of Wayne Shorter at Miner Auditorium, October 31, 2024

SFJAZZ presents an All-Star Tribute to the Legacy of Wayne Shorter featuring Brian Blade, John Patitucci, Danilo Pérez, & Mark Turner
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, October 31, 2024

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[7:34 PM] {lights down, welcome announcement from the SBD, performers out}

1. [7:34 PM] Sanctuary
   {MT swaps from tenor to soprano; DP swapping between instruments}
2. [7:53 PM] Lost
3. [8:17 PM] Zero Gravity
   [8:29 PM] {MT swaps back to tenor}
4. [8:29 PM] Miyako
   [8:38 PM] {DP lauds MT & introduces the band, then digresses into a brief exhortation for everyone to VOTE!}
5. [8:40 PM] Witchcraft
   [9:03 PM] {set ends; bow, then all off for a brief respite}
   
   Encore
6. [9:05 PM] Footprints
   [9:14 PM] {show ends; bow, then all off}
   [9:15 PM] {lights up!}

• Brian Blade: drums;
• John Patitucci: contrabass;
• Danilo Pérez: piano, keyboard;
• Mark Turner: soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone.

I enjoyed tonight's show quite a bit, even as I was flummoxed by its fluidity and formlessness: I recognized major themes such as Sanctuary when they appeared and reappeared, but I had a really hard time determining if the intervening sonic explorations were part of the same tune or not: I'd say that most of the time I was lost!

My experience listening to Footprints was much the same: Danilo teased the main theme immediately after the tune commenced (albeit in an 'off' key form), and the band coalesced on a more traditional version of the theme for brief periods at least once or twice, but most of the performance time was in wide open exploration of sonic spaces. I don't mind being musically disoriented, but it's not the sort of experience I want to have night after night.

Props to Randy Bayers and others for promptly sharing tune titles afterwards: the only song actually introduced all night was Witchcraft, which I mis-heard as Wish Hunt!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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