Rich Perry
Rich Perry | |
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| Born | July 22, 1955 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instrument(s) | Saxophone |
| Labels | SteepleChase |
| Website | www |
Rich Perry is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Cleveland, Ohio.
Perry attended Bowling Green State University for a year before moving to New York. He toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1975 and with The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra the following year.[1] He has also played with Chet Baker, Paul Bley, Machito, Bob Moses, Jack McDuff, Billy Hart, Eddie Gómez, Tom Harrell, and Harold Danko. He has recorded as a leader since 1993 on SteepleChase Records.
Perry is currently a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as the Maria Schneider Orchestra. He is an adjunct faculty member of the William Paterson University jazz program.[2]
Discography
As leader
- To Start Again (SteepleChase, 1993)
- Beautiful Love (SteepleChase, 1994)
- What Is This? (SteepleChase, 1995)
- Left Alone (SteepleChase, 1997)
- RichLee! (SteepleChase, 1997) with Lee Konitz
- Canções do Brasil (SteepleChase, 2000)
- So in Love (SteepleChase, 2000)
- Doxy (SteepleChase, 2000)
- O Grand Amor (SteepleChase, 2001)
- Hearsay (SteepleChase, 2002)
- At Eastman (SteepleChase, 2003)
- East of the Sun and West of 2nd Avenue (SteepleChase, 2004)
- You're My Everything (SteepleChase, 2005)
- Rhapsody (SteepleChase, 2006)
- At the Kitano, Vol. 1 (SteepleChase, 2006)
- E-Motion (SteepleChase, 2007)
- At the Kitano, Vol. 2 (SteepleChase, 2008)
- Gone (SteepleChase, 2010)
- At the Kitano, Vol. 3 (SteepleChase, 2010)
- Grace (SteepleChase, 2011)
- Time Was (SteepleChase, 2010)
- Nocturne (SteepleChase, 2014)
- Organique (SteepleChase, 2015)
- Mood (SteepleChase, 2016)
- Other Matters (SteepleChase, 2019)
As sideman
- Pete Malinverni: "Invisible Cities"
- Rufus Reid: "The Gait Keeper", "Live at the Kennedy Center"
- Gary Versace: "Time and Again"
- Dave Scott: "Song for Amy", "Naivete","Nonchalant"
- Christian Finger: "Merge into Beauty"
- George Mraz: "Bottom Lines", "Mraz Jazz", with Richie Beirach, Al Foster
- Fred Hersch: "Songs Without Words", "Point in Time", "Forward Motion"
- Jeanfrançois Prins: "El Gaucho", with Victor Lewis
- Ron McClure: "Soft Hands", "Dream Team", "Double Triangle", with Tim Hagans, Mark Copeland, Billy Hart
- Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: "Up from the Skies", "The Way", "Can I Persuade You", "Lickety Split", "The Thad Jones Legacy"
- Andy LaVerne: "Pianissimo"
- Paul Bley: "Speechles", with Victor Lewis
- The John Fedchock New York Big Band: "Up and Running", "No Nonsense", "On the Edge"
- Dave Stryker: "Blue to the Bone", "Big Room"
- Lee Konitz: "RichLee"
- Steve Lampert: "Venus Perplexed", "Music from There"
- Joe Henderson: "The Joe Henderson Big Band"
- Clay Jenkins: "Matters of Time"
- Sila Cevikce: "A New Abode"
- Aaron Irwin: Into the Light
- Artt Frank: Waltz for Sharon Stone (mja Records, 1997)
References
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Rich Perry: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
- ^ "News and Events". William Paterson University. 2008-01-23. Archived from the original on 2008-02-26. Retrieved 2010-09-21.
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