Review: Jazz piano great leads amazing quintet in Bay Area debut

The bandstand was filled with players who presumably were very happy with the outcome of Super Bowl LIX.

“This band is known as ‘Four of Us Are from Philly and One of Us Is Not,'” joked legendary pianist Kenny Barron as he introduced his quintet to a packed house of jazz lovers on Thursday night (April 10) at SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco.

Sure, Mike Rodriguez hails from Queens, rather than the City of Brotherly Love, but we like to believe that the trumpeter still had the good...