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Perry Conticchio

Perry Conticchio ”Speak your Truth” Composer/Saxophonist Perry has been playing professionally along the East Coast for over 30 years. His formal studies were at Miami University of Ohio and Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Joe Viola, John LaPorta and Charlie Mariano. Moving to the Washington, DC area in 1976, Perry became an established figure in the "new" music scene. During this time, he had the opportunity to perform with and learn from Don Cherry, Anthony Braxton, Sam Rivers and many others. From 1994-1998 Perry led the successful jazz quartet "Clarity". Since then he has been directing his quartet and contributing on projects with many area bands, including the Thad Wilson Jazz Orchestra and the well-received jazz/funk trio, Bassment Breaks

Take Five With Perry Conticchio

by AAJ Staff
February 4, 2007

Meet Perry Conticchio: Saxophonist and composer Perry Conticchio has built his 35-year career using the singular jazz sounds of the 1960s as a point of departure.His formal studies were at Miami University of Ohio and Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Joe Viola, John LaPorta and Charley Mariano. Moving to ...

Speak Your Truth

By Perry Conticchio

Label: Liven Up Jazz Productions
Released: 2005
Track listing: Speak Your Truth, Hyperbole, Midnight Rain, PD's Blues, November, Blues for Dave, Askold's Waltz, Samba Stephanie, Magic Mirror, I Can't Get Started, Fuschia Swing Song, Robertson Mountain

Perry Conticchio: Speak Your Truth

by Dan McClenaghan
May 25, 2005

In the “saxophone with rhythm section" category, the key to distinction relies as much on the artist's frame of mind as it does superior musicianship. One of the saxophone giants of yesteryear, Dexter Gordon, had the chops, of course, on a series of splendid Blue Note albums in the sixties, with an extroverted, muscular, coming-right-at-you story-telling ...