{"id":4463,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/danilo-perez-at-catalinas-bar-grill\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"danilo-perez-at-catalinas-bar-grill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Danilo Perez at Catalina&#8217;s Bar &#038; Grill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><basefont face=\"verdana\" size=\"2\" color=\"Black\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">  <img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/daniloperez2.jpg\" width=\"111\" alt=\"Danilo Perez\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\"\/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"4\">  Danilo Perez<\/font><br \/><font color=\"blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"2\">  <b>at Catalina&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill<\/b><\/font><br \/><font color=\"#000000\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:8pt\">   by Paula Edelstein  <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">  Danilo Perez and his Motherland Project Band, excited his fans at Catalina&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill October 17-22, 2000. The pianist and diplomat (he is the Cultural Ambassador to Panama) played a remarkable set that included songs from his latest Verve release, MOTHERLAND. The band &#8211; featuring Don McCaffie on saxophone, Essiest Essiest on acoustic bass, Luciana Souza on vocals, and Adam Cruz on drums &#8211;  played an outstanding set that lasted nearly two hours! Opening with a burning Panamanian tamborito, the band blazed through the first song and then sequed into the beautiful punto, &#8220;Elegant Dance.&#8221; Don McCaffie&#8217;s flute solo was especially memorable on this piece.<\/p>\n<p>  Danilo Perez offered a great tribute to Benny Golson that featured an outstanding piano solo that combined post-bop elements with a variety of Latin rhythms. However, it was &#8220;Suite for the Americas,&#8221; a piece originally commissioned by the Chicago Jazz Festival, that was the highlight of this great evening. Perez&#8217;s magnificent range and command of the suite featured a complete array of sounds from South America, Central America and North America. Perez&#8217;s show offered nothing but the best in jazz, fusion and Panamanian folklore. Keep in touch with Danilo Perez on tour at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vervemusicgroup.com\">http:\/\/www.vervemusicgroup.com<\/a>.    <!--#include file=_footer.inc--><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danilo Perez at Catalina&#8217;s Bar &amp; Grill by Paula Edelstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}