“There is nothing small about Danilo Perez’s ambitions. The pianist wants nothing less than to create a Panamanian style of jazz composition.”
JazzTimes

“Danilo Perez is a man with some serious jazz cred. The Panamanian pianist got his start playing with Dizzy Gillespie, and continued with Wayne Shorter. As a composer and bandleader himself, he’s practically peerless.”
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"Expedition" is the second movement of the PANAMANIA suite for big band that premiered at the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games and has been adapted for the Global Messengers. The inspiration for this piece is the story of the arrival of the African, Middle Eastern, and European cultures to America.