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Gene Perla grew up in northeastern New Jersey attending public school grades 1-12. After one year of post graduate study at New York Military Academy he entered the University of Toledo majoring in civil engineering and business. He then attended Berklee School of Music and Boston Conservatory before heading to New York City. At age five Gene’s musical studies began with classical piano. Upon entering high school he was given a trombone which he played for five years culminating in marching on Fifth Avenue in New York City as part of the Memorial Day Parade. During high school he became aware of jazz and was thrilled to attend the first New York performance of Ted Heath’s big band at Carnegie Hall

Article: Album Review

Viktorija Gečytė & Gene Perla: Mother

Read "Mother" reviewed by Ieva Pakalniškytė

by Ieva Pakalniškytė
March 31, 2026

Sometimes the music does not so much ask to be heard as it quietly draws you in. Listening to Viktorija Gečytė and Gene Perla's album Mother feels like slipping into a warm, half-remembered moment. The atmosphere is unhurried, softly lit, unfolding somewhere between memory and the present. Structured as a six-composition album, it echoes the aesthetic world of ...

Article: Interview

Richie Beirach: Indelible Memories and Thought-Provoking Reflections on a Life in Jazz, Part 1

by Victor L. Schermer
January 31, 2026

This two-part article was first published on All About Jazz on August 13, 2019. Part 1 | Part 2 Richie Beirach hovers somewhat mysteriously in the pantheon of the great modern jazz pianists. Some of the others in that category from his generation (coming up in the 1960s/'70s), like Herbie Hancock, Keith ...

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Mother

By Viktorija Gečytė & Gene Perla

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Try Your Wings; Mother; This Is Always; Isn't This A Lovely Day; The Smoker; Yakety Yak.

Article: Album Review

Elvin Jones: Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub

Read "Revival: Live At Pookie’s Pub" reviewed by Chris May

by Chris May
November 4, 2022

A welcome addition to Elvin Jones' catalogue, the previously unissued 2 x CD / 4 x LP Revival: Live At Pookie's Pub was recorded in New York in July 1967. The gig was just two weeks after the passing of John Coltrane, with whom Jones had played from 1960 to 1966. Jones' quartet includes the gritty ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Matthew Shipp: A Dozen Essential Albums

by Karl Ackermann
September 13, 2022

While he was still in his fifties, some pundits were hailing Matthew Shipp as the “elder statesman" of avant-garde jazz piano. The sentiment, if not the Stonehenge-like title, was spot on. The Wilmington, Delaware native grew up in jazz, with trumpeter Clifford Brown being a family friend. Shipp began studying piano at age 6 and later ...

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Horizons Quartet

By Dan Wilkins

Label: PM Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Sprialing; The Blade's Proposition; Marionettes; Benediction of the Moon; Billows; Get the Point; Gaia's Blessing; Kindling of the Phoenix.

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In the Christmas City

By Corinne

Label: Corinne Music
Released: 2022
Track listing: Carol of the Bells God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen In the Bleak Midwinter Christmas Time is Here In the Christmas City Silent Night (Bonus Track)

Article: Album Review

Horizons Quartet: Horizons Quartet

Read "Horizons Quartet" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
July 23, 2021

Quite often it's not so much the music itself that compels you to sit and listen but the feeling the music stirs within. You begin to recall moments from the past that have made you feel of a certain place and time when things were just a bit more either out there or, as in the ...

Article: Building a Jazz Library

Instrumental Duos

by Karl Ackermann
April 20, 2021

The early days of jazz were not always harmonious. Converted dance orchestras often sounded like unbalanced acoustic junkyards; a single violin, cornet, trombone, clarinet, tuba, drums, banjo, and piano, all fighting for attention. The piano was meant to be the glue holding the shrill and boisterous elements together. In 1921 a prodigy pianist named Zez Confrey ...