Danilo Pérez, John Patitucci, and Brian Blade
Schedule
Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
273 Bloor Street West, Toronto, ON, Canada, Ontario M5S 1W2 | Toronto, ON
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The rhythm section of Wayne Shorter’s legendary quartet kick off the night and then join a Toronto big band featuring Canadian saxophone icon Jane Bunnett and award-winning vocalist April May Webb for the premiere of Pérez’s new work, The Panáfrica Suite: Echoes from the Isthmus, co-commissioned by the RCM.As a solo artist and as a collaborator with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Wayne Shorter, for over three decades, Grammy-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, and European impressionism – promoting music as a borderless and multidimensional bridge between all people.
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