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"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
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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
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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
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