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‘Before each concert, we gathered in a circle with our heads together and felt aligned, making a sound’
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez
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In October 2014, the giant Newark, New Jersey-born tenor and soprano saxophonist Wayne Shorter (1933-2023) played one of his final concerts in Stockholm Concert Hall. This has now been released as Celebration: Volume 1. His longstanding superfine quartet-mates, bassist John Patitucci, drummer Brian Blade and the insurgent Panamanian pianist, Danilo Perez, were with him. 

I ask Perez about his own life in music, and the impact upon it by the great Wayne.

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