Rich Perry

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

Rich Perry attended Bowling Green State University for a year before moving to New York. Perry first toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1975, and followed it with time in 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 released copiously as a leader since 1993 on Steeplechase Records.

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.^[2]

Discography

As leader

• To Start Again (Steeplechase Records, 1993)
• Beautiful Love (Steeplechase, 1994)
• What Is This? (Steeplechase, 1995)
• Left Alone (Steeplechase, 1997)
• 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