Jazz Articles about John-Carlos Perea

John-Carlos Perea: First Dance

by Bill Siegel
August 15, 2005

John-Carlos Perea First Dance Aerep Music 2001

What do a Mescalero Apache electric bassist, a Michoacan-Mexican percussionist, a Chicano guitarist, a Nicaraguan-Jewish drummer, and French-Iranian, Argentine and Chinese-American saxophonists have in common with John Coltrane and Jim Pepper?

The answer comes in the form of John-Carlos Perea's First Dance. Perea--who plays fretted and unfretted electric bass--produced the CD and composed all but one of its cuts. First Dance is a ...