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Sacha Perry: Not Brand X
by Laurel Gross
If you are looking for music to snooze by, steer clear of Sacha Perry. He is an electrifying pianist, like putting your finger in a socket. On Not Brand X, Perry delves into an unusual array of standards, which Perry-ized are anything but “standard. There's a bounce, a swing, but dissonance and sure-handed adventurousness too. You can hear the influence of bebop (and of folks like Bud Powell, Elmo Hope and Thelonious Monk, masters of whom this ...
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by Eric J. Iannelli
Sacha Perry first emerged out of relative obscurity last year as a member of the Across 7 Street quintet on Made in New York, the second disc in Smalls' ever-expanding catalogue and the one that more or less established the label's prevailing sound: fresh but familiar, accessible but challenging, heady but emotive. Or to borrow others' paradoxical comments on Perry himself: “neither retro nor revival," “extraterrestrial and down to earth," “old but new," “[music] you've never heard before but thought ...
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