Danilo Pérez
Panamanian pianist and composerWikipedia
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Search complete. 20 mentions across 8 episodes found for "Danilo Pérez".
Sep 25, 2026
Andrew McAnshGUEST
the Berkeley Global Jazz Institute in 2017.
Andrew McAnshGUEST
When I came back to Toronto, I had an interesting time sort of integrating back into, you know, back into Toronto because I was on this crazy inspiration sort of ride from studying with people like Danilo Perez, Terry Lynn Carrington, John Patitucci, Joe Lovano, and the list goes on and on.
Andrew McAnshGUEST
And, And so one of the things that they got me to think about is to figure out what is the sound of the land that you're from? What is the real cultural identity of where you are taking into effect the history of the country? And so...
Andrew McAnshGUEST
Right when I was really deep in thought about that, I was around Spadina and Bloor, right around the Native Center, and there were these two Indigenous artists that were selling their artwork right on the corner of Spadina and Bloor, and one of them is named Melanie Montour, and she's an absolute... an absolute beautiful human being with an incredible story.
DrewHOST
This week, we're going to visit a different country, coming from last week's exploration into Panama.
DrewHOST
We're going to listen to some incredible sounds from Danilo Perez, which leads the question back to last week's episode.
DrewHOST
Y'all, what is jazz? Welcome back to the Unconnoisseurs of Jazz, everybody.
DrewHOST
For today, we do.
DrewHOST
We get to talk about none other than Danilo Perez.
DrewHOST
I was super excited to come into Danilo for Motherland, but for a whole lot of different reasons.
DrewHOST
His time with Dizzy, his time with Wayne Shorter, just a phenomenal pianist to me.
DrewHOST
But this was new for the both of you, Danilo Perez is.
DrewHOST
Now, he did not record on the album we had looked at, but he has recorded with Jim Black and Chris Speed.
DrewHOST
Kurt has also recorded with Gary Burton and Danilo Perez, which is a name that we should begin to know.
DrewHOST
Daniel Perez was part of the band with Wayne Shorter from 2000 on.
DrewHOST
Yep.
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DrewHOST
And it never...
DrewHOST
I mean, you know who's on it.
DrewHOST
You hear Danilo Perez.
DrewHOST
And I think, man, this is so...
MattHOST
We are just using his list as our journey guide to the new jazz.
MattHOST
Now our old past videos we used the jazz wise magazine's top 100 albums that shook the world again we're not uh part of jazz wise or anything else that was just our guide and this is how we decided to move on so far we've covered in the year 2000 jim black's noah laxus brian blade fellowship perceptual kurt elling live in chicago nels petra molvar the album is called solid ether Danilo Perez, Motherland, David Sanchez, Malaza, and then tonight, David S. Ware, Surrendered.
MattHOST
So again, that's just a brief description of how we chose to listen to this album and discuss David S. Ware.
MattHOST
Does
MattHOST
We listen to jazz all week long, and I couldn't get enough of it this week.
MattHOST
uh again drew mentioned earlier in the episode we are using the list provided by nate chennan in the book called playing changes so far in the year 2000 jim black brian blade fellowship kurt elling nels potter mulver danilo perez and tonight of course david sanchez so these artists we had never heard of before when we started you know when we started our top 100 list that shook the world most of those artists we had never heard of either and so we were discovering these new artists discovering this new music that almost that whole list That was our intro and journey, how we started our journey into jazz.
MattHOST
And this is how we're following up on our journey with Nate Chenin's list.
MattHOST
So we all read the book.
LauraHOST
All right.
LauraHOST
We have just heard the incredible track from Danilo Pérez with his trio, John Patitucci and Brian Blade from the album Children of the Light.
LauraHOST
And guess what? I am thrilled.
LauraHOST
to have in the studio with me here, Danilo Perez, live and in person.
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Danilo PérezGUEST
So to all of you who are listening, play music, play music, especially in this time.
Danilo PérezGUEST
¶¶ Thank you.
speaker_0NARRATOR
And that was Danilo Pérez with Sweden's Bohuslán Big Band.
speaker_0NARRATOR
That album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Large Ensemble Album.
Sarah WebbHOST
If you're a longtime Science in Parallel listener, Arvind Ramanathan's name might sound familiar.
Sarah WebbHOST
Two of our past guests, Anda Trifan and Danilo Perez, talked about their work with Arvind and his team.
Sarah WebbHOST
And some of that work was mentioned on our recent fifth anniversary episode.
Sarah WebbHOST
We'll include links to those episodes in our show notes.
Emilio ModesteGUEST
whatever we had determined or decided, it was, it was on us to make new decisions and see how those went.
Pablo HeldHOST
I remember talking to Danilo Perez and John Patitucci, and they talked about doing zero gravity with Wayne, you know, and going for the unknown and they called it fear training.
Emilio ModesteGUEST
Fear training.
Emilio ModesteGUEST
That's funny.