PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Honoring Dizzy Gillespie with a Mix of Many Styles

Twenty years ago the pianist Danilo Perez was a precocious member of Dizzy Gillespies United Nations Orchestra, a clutch of musicians from the Americas and the Caribbean. That appointment, which ended with Gillespies death in 1993, was formative: Mr. Perez has said it gave him the conviction to seek out his own personal amalgam of jazz and Latin music, and in particular the folk music of his native Panama. From Gillespie, bebops peerless trumpet ambassador, he also learned a few things about the...

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