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Instruments
  
Saxophone

Role
  
Faculty member

Name
  
Rich Perry


Website
  
richperrymusic.com

Labels
  
Steeplechase Records

Genres
  
Jazz

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Origin
  
Cleveland, Ohio, United States

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, Educator, Bandleader

Associated acts
  
Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Maria Schneider

Education
  
Bowling Green State University

Albums
  
Allegresse, Concert in the Garden, Evanescence, Crossroads, Organique

Andy LaVerne Quartet - Dream


Rich Perry is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Cleveland, Ohio.

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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. 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.

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Perry is currently a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as Maria Schneider's Orchestra. He is an adjunct faculty member of the William Paterson University jazz program.

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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
  • Cancoes 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)

    • 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"
  • 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

    • References

    Rich Perry Wikipedia
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