Danilo Pérez Trio featuring Ben Street & Adam Cruz

*PLEASE NOTE: All 6:30 PM and 8:30 PM shows at Smoke are Dinner Shows Danilo Perez – piano Ben Street – bass Adam Cruz – drums “…the packed house had been mesmerized by the trio’s twist-and-turn interplay and by the virtuosity pushed to the edge.”— Financial Times Pianist Danilo Pérez, lauded as one of the most creative forces in contemporary music, leads an all-star trio with bassist Ben Street and drummer Adam Cruz. Panamanian-born Pérez has toured and/or recorded with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Gary Burton, and Roy Haynes. With jazz as the anchoring foundation, Pérez’s music is a blend of his Panamanian roots, Latin American folk music, West African rhythms, and European impressionism. As NPR reports, “Danilo Perez is a man with some serious jazz cred. The Panamanian pianist got his start playing with Dizzy Gillespie and continued with Wayne Shorter. As a composer and bandleader himself, he’s practically peerless.”