Results for "Perry Robinson"

Perry Robinson

Born: August 17, 1938

Perry Morris Robinson (born September 17, 1938) is an American free jazz and klezmer clarinettist, an author, and the son of composer and folk singer Earl Robinson. Robinson was born in New York City. After college he went to the Lenox School of Music in 1959. He did some of his early work with Henry Grimes on his first record, Funk Dumpling (with Grimes, Paul Motian and Kenny Barron), and Grimes' The Call (an association revived since Grimes's re-emergence). His uniquely effervescent tone is the result of his unusual double embouchure. Since 1973 he has been working with Jeanne Lee and Gunter Hampel's Galaxy Dream Band

Ave B Free Jam

Label: Inky Dot
Released: 2022
Track listing: 21 unnamed tracks

Fire Music To Mama Too Tight Revisited

By Archie Shepp

Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2022
Track listing: Fire Music: Hambone; Los Olvidados; Prelude To A Kiss; The Girl From Ipanema; Malcolm, Malcolm, Semper Malcolm. Mama Too Tight: A Portrait Of Robert Thompson (As A Young Man); Mama Too Tight; Theme For Ernie; Basheer.

Sarah Murcia, Thumbscrew & Giancarlo Tossani

by Maurice Hogue
April 14, 2021

There's lots of new releases sampled in this episode. The critics' darlings, Thumbscrew is back and meeting their usual standards of creativity and originality. Popular French bassist Sarah Murcia sings off-beat stuff on her new Eyeballing, while the Finnish quartet Alder Ego stretches the boundaries on their latest. The pandemic looms over the new release by ...

Mahakala Music, Baptiste Boiron Trio & Shapeshifters

by Maurice Hogue
March 31, 2021

A look at some of the releases (including Dopolarians) from the independent record label, Mahakala, based in Hot Springs, AK is a central part of this episode. There are new releases by French saxophonist Baptiste Boiron, Swedish baritone saxophonist Alberto Pinton, the Abraham Burton-Lucian Ban duo, Toronto trio TuneTown, England's Shapeshifters, Kartet from France, and the ...

Vijay Anderson Trio: Studio Sessions Vol. 10

by John Sharpe
March 2, 2021

Brooklyn-based Californian drummer Vijay Anderson leads an impressively cohesive trio on Studio Sessions Vol .10. In this case cohesion is a product of shared experience. Anderson's career has been intertwined with bassist Adam Lane's since 2003, and can be heard on Zero Degree Music (CIMP, 2005), New Magical Kingdom (Clean Feed, 2006),and Absolute Horizon (NoBusiness, 2013). ...

The Journey

By Andrea Centazzo

Label: Ictus Records
Released: 2021

quartets/duos/trios

Label: Mahakala Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: BPRS1 BPR1 BSR1 BPR2 BSR2 PR BSR3 BPRS2 SR

Leo Smith and New Dalta Ahkri

by Daniel Barbiero
April 7, 2020

Coming to New England: Emerson, Ives and Brown When trumpeter/composer Leo Smith returned to the United States after having spent 1969-1970 in Europe, he settled not in New York, as most jazz musicians might be expected to do, or even in jny: Chicago, where he'd spent a fruitful several years in the 1960s. Instead, he chose ...

The Creative Musicians Improvisers Forum: New Haven's AACM

by Daniel Barbiero
July 8, 2019

The late 1960s through the 1970s and '80s were difficult years for jazz and jazz-derived improvised music, but they were also years that saw musicians—by necessity—respond to these difficulties with creative solutions. With first the rise and then the commercial dominance during those years of rock music and the corresponding eclipse of jazz, creative musicians in ...