Name: The Alluvion Jazz Series Presents: Danilo Pérez, Ben Street & Adam Cruz Trio
Start: 2025-09-13T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-13T21:00:00-04:00
Location: 414 E Eighth Street, Traverse City, MI

$The Alluvion Jazz Series Presents: Danilo P\u00e9rez, Ben Street & Adam Cruz Trio$

Doors open at 7 - Music at 7:30 - $30 advance tickets - $35 at the door
Fully seated, listening room style show
The Alluvion Jazz Series proudly presents the incomparable Danilo Pérez, Adam Cruz, and Ben Street for a concert filled with an unmatched level of inspiring global jazz and humanitarianism. Right here in our arts devoted community living room.
FEATURING
Danilo Pérez - Piano
Adam Cruz - Drums
Ben Street - Bass
As a solo artist and as a collaborator with jazz giants from Dizzy Gillespie to Wayne Shorter, for over three decades Grammy® Award Winning Panamanian Pianist-Composer Danilo Pérez has been lauded as one of the most creative forces in contemporary music. With Jazz as the anchoring foundation, Pérez’s Global Jazz music is a blend of Panamanian roots, Latin American folk music, West African rhythms, European impressionism – promoting music as a borderless and multidimensional bridge between all people.
Born in Panama in 1965, Danilo Pérez started his musical studies when he was three years old with his father, a bandleader and singer. By age 10, he was studying the European classical piano repertoire at the National Conservatory in Panama. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in electronics in Panama, he studied jazz composition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music. While still a student, he performed with Jon Hendricks, Terence Blanchard, Slide Hampton, Claudio Roditi and Paquito D’Rivera. Quickly established as a young master, he soon toured and/or recorded with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie United Nations Orchestra from 1989-1992, Jack DeJohnette, Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker, Joe Lovano, Tito Puente, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Gary Burton, and Roy Haynes.
Pérez, who served as Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF, has received a variety of awards for his musical achievements, activism and social work efforts. He is a recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award in 2021, the United States Fellowship 2018, and the 2009 Smithsonian Legacy Award. He currently serves as UNESCO Artist for Peace, Cultural Ambassador to the Republic of Panama, Founder and Artistic Director of the Panama Jazz Festival, and the Berklee Global Jazz Institute in Boston’s Berklee College of Music