Yoshi's presents Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet
Jack London Square, 510 Embarcadero West, Oakland, CA 94607-3506 USA
7:30 PM, Monday, April 7, 2025

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[7:26 PM] {lights down, announcements}
[7:31 PM] {performers out}

1. [7:32 PM] Congregation ?AKA? Congregation At Tafawa Balewa Square ?AKA? Tafabalewa Square (Joe Lovano)
2. [7:48 PM] Amsterdam (Joe Lovano)
   {Joe swaps from tenor saxophone to tárogató}
3. [7:54 PM] the Call
   {Joe swaps back to tenor saxophone}
4. [8:04 PM] Yoruban Prophet » [8:08 PM] {drum solo} » [8:12 PM] {sounded to me like a new tune, but guessing it's a continuation of the previous one based on Joe's later commentary}
5. [8:20 PM] Lady Day (Wayne Shorter)
   [8:36 PM] {Greetings from Joe; band introduction; back- and fore-announcements}
6. [8:37 PM] Fanfare for Unity (Joe Lovano)
   [8:45 PM] {final applause}
   [8:46 PM] {bows up front}
   [8:47 PM] {show ends}

Joe Lovano's Paramount Quartet

• Will Calhoun: drums;
• Asante Santi Debriano: bass, contrabass;
• Julian Lage: guitar;
• Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone, tárogató.

Once the band got cooking, it was hard for me to keep track of the songs: they seemed to run together tunes 3-4-5-6 without a pause. About an hour in, they finally took a break, and after Joe introduced everyone, he rattled off the sequence of titles really quickly, ID'd the last tune, and then they launched into it.

Everyone got lots of solo time, and I found all of that pretty engaging (nobody went on too long for my attention). Joe played tárogató on one tune in the middle of the set, and tenor sax on all the rest. No one else did any sort of instrument switching tonight.

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