“Providencia is Pérez’s most compelling effort since 2000’s Motherland. The man’s ears are simply formidable, and this is some of the best evidence yet.” -- David Adler, All About Jazz - New York “Danilo Perez’s latest release Providencia is a mutating musical collage that melds classical, Latin and jazz sonorities across the album’s eleven tracks. Few artists dare to go where Pérez does time and time again. He’s a keyboard giant that continues to impress.” -- Jon Regen, Keyboard Magazine “The pianist Danilo Pérez’s conception of jazz is wide-angle and egalitarian, if not utopian. He’s a hard-core linker of traditions and rhythms and disciplines; he wants everything to connect.  This has been the point of his most ambitious records over 17 years, including Panamonk (1996),Motherland (2000) and the new Providencia.” -- Ben Ratliff, The New York Times “At at time when most mid-career jazz musicians fade into neglect from the cottage industry around them, Providencia reveals an important artist gauging ambition with his most powerful tool.” -- Josh Jackson, NPR “Providencia feels like an ice-cold drink on a hot day. The Panamanian-born Pérez melds jazz, classical, and Latin American folk music into a potent mix.” -- Karl Stark, Philadelphia Inquirer "With this disc, Pérez succeeds at creating a musical bridge between the intricate and visceral, inviting all listeners interested in forward thinking sounds." -- John Barron, AllAboutJazz.com “Providencia crosses streams of jazz, classical and Latin American folk music on 11 great compositions that spark the listener to connect with the creativity and social power of Perez’s musical conscience. Danilo Pérez is a genius and you’d be wise to add this masterwork to your music collection today.” -- Paula Edelstein, Sounds of Timeless Jazz.com “The new colors Pérez is adding to his palette this time around is a cinematic sweep that makes this music sound like a panorama.” -- Chris Spector, Midwest Record “On Providencia, pianist Danilo Pérez assembles an assorted ensemble to access expansive musical colors. His sweeping compositions, accented with Latin rhythms, reach to strike lofty sentiments, and are elevated in part by various timbral combinations.” -- Jacob Teichroew, About.com “If you care to let it, Providencia is the type of work that will floor you. Danilo Pérez has crafted a legitimate contender for one of the most impressive records of the year. It’s colourful and exotically flavoured with many textures and secret passages hidden in the nooks and crannies of the compositions.” -- Keelan H., Sputnikmusic "This is an ambitious project, marked by deep personal commitment and global vision." -- Robbie Gerson, Audiophile Audition "For eight years, Danilo Perez has worked as the keyboard force behind Wayne Shorter's quartet, but Perez also has 10 albums on his own with sidemen like Jack DeJohnette, Cassandra Wilson, and Joe Lovano. Providencia is his debut on the Mack Avenue label... This is one of the best of 2010." -- Paul Weideman, Santa Fe New Mexican "They put the camera on Danilo's hands, and I said, 'Uh-oh. This is a guy.' When we met later, I can remember the feeling, like when we were kids and we said, 'Let's go outside and play.' That's the feeling. Danilo is open to whatever comes, in that zero-gravity kind of way. When we become weightless, he doesn't start looking for things to hold on to." -- Wayne Shorter 2008 Although often played as a bright, bouncy bopper, "Hallucinations" was also famously recorded by Powell in a somewhat starker and darker solo version in 1951. Mr. Perez uses that performance as his starting point, and his treatment is even more profundo misterioso. I was reminded of how, when the novelist Gregory Maguire wrote "Wicked," he said that he didn't want to explain the witch; he merely sought to "deepen her mystery." Likewise, Mr. Perez doesn't reinterpret or modernize "Hallucinations"; he takes it into highly personal uncharted regions that are equal parts Latin and non-Latin jazz, and, in the process, deepens its mystery considerably. -- The New York Sun, 2007 When the dust settles, the pianist DANILO PEREZ will be looking like one of the best things that happened to jazz around the turn of the millennium. This Panamanian musician is literate in Latin American rhythms, and so part of the wave of the recent, more culturally specific and vastly improved Latin jazz scene. But he is also, in a larger sense, defining post-Hancock, post-Jarrett mainstream jazz piano, with his harmonic knowledge and his will to make a piano trio exciting and fluid. -- The New York Times, 2006 Press Kit A downloadable press kit containing reviews, and promo pictures

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