Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Danilo Perez [videorecording].

Author

Pérez, Danilo.

Publication

2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ruffin, Mark.
• Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

1 videodisc (55 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Danilo Perez speaks with Mark Ruffin about his second album, "The journey"; starting out as a classical pianist; his father introducing him to music; playing percussion at age 3; his father as a vocalist; classical music in Panama; playing with his father, working, and going to school; studying electonrics; coming to the United States on a Fulbright scholarship; the Berklee College of Music and his Quincy Jones scholarship; how he came to be interested in jazz; jazz in Panama; auditioning for Jon Hendricks in New York City when he was 19 years old; recording with Terence Blanchard; playing with Claudio Roditi; playing with Paquito D'Rivera; playing with Dizzy Gillespie and the United Nations Orchestra; his relaionship with Dizzy Gillespie; the GRAMMYs; his albums "Danilo Perez", "Panamonk", and "Motherland"; "Panamonk" connecting him to Thelonious Monk; music as representing a physical journey; "Suite de Panama" with his big band; his collaborations with Steve Lacy; Wayne Shorter and his GRAMMY for "Beyond the sound barrier"; making a record with Claus Ogerman; his album "Music we are"; the Panama Jazz Festival; serving as Ambassador of Goodwill for UNICEF and Cultural Ambassador for Panama; his work with children; using music as a socio-cultural tool; his family and his future.

Series Statement

Duke jazz histories

Uniform Title

Duke jazz histories.

Subjects

• Pérez, Danilo > Interviews
• Shorter, Wayne
• Blanchard, Terence
• D'Rivera, Paquito, 1948-
• Berklee College of Music
• Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993
• Lacy, Steve
• Panama
• Jazz musicians > Interviews
• Pianists > Interviews
• Monk, Thelonious

Note

• Interview with Danilo Perez conducted by Mark Ruffin, in New York, N.Y., on Apr. 16, 2009.

Event (note)

• This interview was videotaped at the Oral History Studio of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on April 16, 2009, by James Sapione and Gary Shinn.

Funding (note)

• Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details (note)

• DVD.

Call Number

*LDV 1242

OCLC

369174743

Author

Pérez, Danilo. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Danilo Perez [videorecording].

Imprint

2009.

Series

Duke jazz histories

Duke jazz histories.

Event

This interview was videotaped at the Oral History Studio of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York City on April 16, 2009, by James Sapione and Gary Shinn.

Funding

Recording made possible by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

System Details

DVD.

Added Author

Ruffin, Mark. Interviewer

Jazz at Lincoln Center (Organization)

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*LDV 1242