★★★★★
Jazz pianist Danilo Pérez works in the rarified air of modern jazz much of the time. He plays with the Wayne Shorter Quartet, a space of daring and thrilling jazz abstraction. What that music "means", beyond its own thrilling vocabulary of feeling and musical exploration, is hard to say. But Pérez also often works on music - also jazz but not just jazz - that comes with a story, the story of Pérez's home in Panama...
- www.popmatters.com
2014-03-31
★★★★★
Track Listing: : Rediscovery of the South Sea; Panama 500; Reflections on the South Sea; Abita Yale (America); Gratitude; The Canal Suite: Land of Hope; The Canal Suite: Premonition in Rhythm; The Canal Suite: Melting Pot (Chocolate); The Expedition; Narration to Reflections on the South Sea; Panama Viejo; Celebration of Our Land...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2014-02-11
★★★★★
Pianist Danilo Pérez has been around for a long time, first known as the youngest member of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra, then acclaimed for several lovely recordings in the 1990s that brought Panamanian elements to the jazz trio or quartet format, and then as the pianist in Wayne Shorter's unparalleled 21st century quartet. Pérez works in the mainstream of jazz, but he has always shown a flair for bringing fresh elements to the music's center...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
★★★★★
Summary: If jazz were a UN summit... Itâ??s at about the time when the steel drums enter on opener â??Danielaâ??s Chroniclesâ? that you start to get what Danilo Perez is trying to achieve. Okay, so â??trying to achieveâ? may be a bit pedantic because a benefit album or political statement Providencia is not. Perhaps to understand what it is I mean, we must first understand that Perez is pretty much a hero in Panama...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2010-10-18
★★★★★
There is nothing small about Danilo Perez's ambitions. The pianist wants nothing less than to create a Panamanian style of jazz composition. And that means a lot more than just adding some congas to a bebop combo. It's easy to understand why American jazz musicians have seized upon rhythm as the defining element of Latin music, for that quality is the most exotic to their ears and the most useful to their purposes...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-10-11
★★★★★
Danilo Pérez Koerner Hall Toronto, ON March 27, 2010 Danilo Pérez was part of Dizzy Gillespie's United Nations Orchestra back in 1989 and is now firmly established as a pianist in his own right...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Al otro lado de la pantalla (gracias, Skype), aparece Danilo Pérez (Pueblo Nuevo, Monte Oscuro, 1965). Sonriente, comunicativo, afable, interrumpe de vez en cuando la conversación para ir presentando a las personas que pasan por su despacho en el Berklee College of Music. El pianista panameño acaba de regresar a los escenarios tras una lesión en el tendón de Aquiles que lo tuvo en reposo casi medio año...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-08-20
★★★★★
Track Listing: Daniela's Chronicles; Galactic Panama; Historia De Un Amor; Bridge of Life, Part I;Providencia; Irremediablemente Solo; The Oracle; Bridge of Life, Part II; The Maze: TheBeginning; Cobilla; The Maze: The End...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2010-07-16
★★★★★
This lush, orchestral collaboration between pianist Perez and the prolific composer-arranger Claus Ogerman recalls two similarly classy and evocative encounters from the '80s between Ogerman and Michael Brecker: 1982's Cityscape and 1988's Claus Ogerman Featuring Michael Brecker. By drawing on familiar classical themes for his impressionistic pieces here, Ogerman has come up with an intriguing canvas for the Panamanian pianist to paint on...
- www.jazztimes.com
2010-02-19
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