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Perry Wortman

Born: November 30, 1978

Perry Wortman is a bassist who spent fifteen years in Brooklyn playing music that didn't fit neatly into a genre: South Indian Carnatic classical repertoire, jazz trios, old American folk songs, chamber writing, indie rock. He has mostly worked as a sideman, and he's good at the part of the job that doesn't get written about, which is making a band sound like a band.

He grew up in Tulsa and moved to New York to study with Buster Williams at the New School, then finished his degree at the Manhattan School of Music with Jay Anderson. His first record came out of those years. The Paislies was recorded in Brooklyn in 2005 and released by Fresh Sound New Talent, the Barcelona label that gave Robert Glasper, Kris Davis and Ambrose Akinmusire their early records. The band was nominally led by drummer Paul Wiltgen and guitarist Jesse Lewis, but it ran as a composers' collective. The music sat between jazz and progressive rock. They toured Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

Arun Ramamurthy Trio: New Moon

by Dan McClenaghan
October 16, 2024

Violinist Arun Ramamurthy is a first-generation Indian American artist. His ancestral roots in India run deep, and his musical roots there run deep, too. He has embraced American jazz but remains artistically tethered to his parents' homeland. 2014's' Jazz Carnatica (Self Produced) (review here), by his Arun Ramamurthy Trio, showcased his talents for walking the line ...

Of Earth And Sky

By Karavika

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2016
Track listing: Your Passing Touch; All The Pretty Little Horses; Raga Behag; The Time Is Now; Raga Kaliyani; Thillana Jaya Ragamalika; Young Leaves Of The Bodi Tree; Oh, Watch The Stars.

Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases Of 2016

by Dan McClenaghan
December 10, 2016

The music keeps moving forward, evolving to higher levels. My search for the best jazz recordings of 2016 led me to these marvelous CDs. Wadada Leo SmithAmerica's National Parks Cuneiform Records Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has attempted in, the new millennium, to create his magnum opus. He may have succeeded ...

Karavika: Of Earth And Sky

by Dan McClenaghan
July 23, 2016

Can't find a musical genre that fits the needs of your means of artistic expression? Then create your own. That's what Karavika did, with their gorgeous and provocative debut, Sunrise ( Self Produced, 2012). Call it raga/chamber/folk music if you will, a blend of multiple influences from multiple cultures, with a South Asian foundation in Sri ...

Jazz Carnatica

By Arun Ramamurthy

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Dhanasri; Maha G; 4th Dimension; Simple Joys; Darbari Kanada; Govardhana; Delusions; Conception; Revati.

Dan McClenaghan's Best Releases of 2014

by Dan McClenaghan
December 15, 2014

It's that time to wrap it up and make some choices on the top jazz releases of the year. Here are my picks for the best of 2014, in no particular order, with the exception of the first listing, pianist Paul Bley's disc, which stands out. I do love piano jazz. Paul BleyPlay ...

Arun Ramamurthy Trio: Jazz Carnatica

by Dan McClenaghan
October 24, 2014

On his 1967 hit song “Monterey," Eric Burdon, of Eric Burdon and the Animals, sang that Ravi Shankar's music made him cry. This was part of a litany of observational praises of the artists who performed at the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival: The Who, Jimi Hendrix, The Grateful Dead, the Birds, The Jefferson Airplane. And from ...

Sunrise

By Perry Wortman

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2012
Track listing: On The Wing; Little Road Song; Song That Floats On The Breeze; The Dancer; Moonbeam; Sunrise.

Everything Forgets

By Ryan Blotnick

Label: Songlines Recordings
Released: 2009
Track listing: Intro; Mansell; Judge's Cave; Mainstream I; My Memory, Sir, Is Like A Garbage Heap; Ballad For A Crumbling Infrastructure; Dark Matter (For Benoit Delbecq); Slowdozer; Look, A Way!; Mainstream II; Sulphur, The Reins; Funes The Memorious; Business Class; Cloud Stove; Ned Ferm; Sonny Song.