Panama Jazz Festival

Another nice surprise in sometimes cosmopolitan Panama City. A fine line up for the 4th? annual Panama Jazz Festival. We all came back to the city a day early so Tracie, Libby and I could go see one of the headline shows of the 10 day long festival. That was the Wayne Shorter Quartet (of Miles Davis quintet fame from the 1960s--one of the only guys to write a bunch of songs for the band), with opener of Luba Mason and her band Kava--mostly from Costa Rica, She is from California, and married to Ruben Blades, who did a guest appearence (along with Hubert Laws).

A fine theatre from about 20 years ago with very good acoustics. Wild improv form the Wayne Shorter band. 

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