SFJAZZ presents Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, November 18, 2021

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[7:33 PM] {lights down; announcements from Randall Kline}
[7:36 PM] {pause for a minute while the PA blasts Cuban music; Just Ben & Walter out to start the show}

1. [7:37 PM] Saint Peter (all)
2. [7:46 PM] That's It!
   [7:55 PM] BJ swaps from contrabass to sousaphone
3. [7:55 PM] The Bucket's Got a Hole in It (RJ)
   [8:02 PM] BJ swaps back to contrabass
4. [8:03 PM] One Hundred Fires
5. [8:11 PM] Tootie Ma Is a Big Fine Thing (CM)
6. [8:15 PM] So It Is
7. [8:20 PM] Santiago
8. [8:26 PM] Dear Lord (Give Me the Strength) (RJ)
   [8:31 PM] BJ swaps from contrabass to sousaphone
9. [8:31 PM] Keep Your Head Up (all)
10. [8:38 PM] Just a Closer Walk With Thee (RJ)
11. [8:47 PM] Didn't He Ramble (BL)
    [8:51 PM] {set ends; drawn out exit; pause; drawn out return}
    
    Encore
12. [8:54 PM] (unidentified)
    [9:01 PM] {show ends; bows and waves; all off}

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

• Walter Harris: drums, harmony vox;
• Ben Jaffe: contrabass, sousaphone, harmony vox;
• Ronell Johnson: trombone, lead & harmony vox;
• Branden Lewis: trumpet, lead & harmony vox;
• Clint Maedgen: tenor saxophone, lead & harmony vox;
• Kyle Roussel: piano.

Dang, the house can't be more than half-full tonight: that's too bad! And the stage has been expanded to take up nearly the entire floor – even though the band isn't that large: hard to know if that's a Covid-19 safety measure or something to obscure the lack of GA sales. Since the floor never got crowded, I'm going with the first reason on that one (justified by the second).

I thought the band took awhile to get going tonight: maybe they were feeling a little slow from a travel day? There wasn't anything wrong with the first hour, it just didn't really hit with the force I expected.

SFJAZZ streamed the Friday night show live; I was busy making dinner during the first half, but I enjoyed the little bit that I heard, and I was glad to catch most of the second half, though disappointed to note that they seemed to repeat an awful lot of tunes from Thursday: Ting tells me that's the normal complaint from a deadhead: wanting things to be totally different from night to night!

Big thanks to Ting for the photo gallery!

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