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John Hanrahan Quartet Plays Wayne Shorter's Juju at Yoshi's Oakland
Courtesy of Izabelle Hope | Posted on December 29, 2019
When
Mon, January 27, 2020
8:00 pm
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Musicians
John Hanrahan
drumsAndrew Dixon
saxophoneDahveed Behroozi
pianoGiulio Xavier Cetto
bass, acousticAbout
Yoshi's is pleased to welcome back the John Hanrahan Quartet with Andrew Dixon, performing Wayne Shorter's JuJu album in its entirety. The John Hanrahan Quartet has been playing together in Chicago and around the globe for over 20 years. Many Central Coast jazz fans will recognize the John Hanrahan Quartet from their breakout performance at the 2014 Monterey Jazz Festival, where they paid tribute to John Coltrane's 'A Love Supreme', widely considered one of the greatest jazz recordings of all time.
Now the quartet turns it gaze towards another one of the greatest years of contemporary popular music: Wayne Shorter's JuJu Album. Blue Note Records released JuJu, the fifth album by popular jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter, in July 1965. The record was Shorter's second for Blue Note, following Night Dreamer. Also featured on Juju is Hanrahan's muse and mentor Elvin Jones, the drummer who contributed to making the album the classic treasure that it is....