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Instrument: Saxophone
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PJ Perry has shared the stage with countless jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Shaw, Michel LeGrand, Pepper Adams, Kenny Wheeler, Tom Harrell, Rob McConnell, Slide Hampton, Herb Spanier, Bobby Shew, Fraser McPherson, Tommy Banks, Joe LaBarbera, Clarence “Big” Miller, Red Rodney and many more talented artists, too numerous to list here. Recently, he was a featured soloist on the hit 2010 Broadway production of Come Fly Away, highlighting the songs of Frank Sinatra and the choreography of Twyla Tharpe. In 2007 PJ was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta. In autumn of 1999 Justin Time Records released a JUNO-nominated recording of PJ and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra
PJ Perry: No Hugs
by Jack Bowers
The title of Canadian alto saxophone maestro PJ Perry's album does not mean that Perry wants No Hugs, rather that the Covid pandemic that arrived in 2020 meant there would be “no hugs" between Perry and his beloved grandson, Atticus, in the “big brown chair" that served as their hangout until the quarantine was over. On ...
PJ Perry: No Hugs
by Pierre Giroux
PJ Perry is a survivor. Now, in 2022, eighty-one years old, he has been playing saxophone since he was fourteen, when he joined his father's dance band as a baritone saxophonist. During the course of his lengthy career, he has lived in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto and a couple of European cities, before settling in Edmonton, Alberta. ...
Saskatchewan Suite
By Fred Stride
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: The Place; The First; The Newcomers; The In-Between; September 1905; Saskatchesport; Thank You, Mr.
Douglas; Saskatchejazz
September 1905
Album: Saskatchewan Suite
By Fred Stride
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:58
Charlie Parker & Sonny Rollins
by Joe Dimino
From a big name in the world of Canadian jazz, we go up north to begin episode 613 with the great PJ Perry presenting material off his new album The Quiet Room. From there, we pay respects to the great Charlie Parker in Kansas City during the Bird Celebration during August for what would have been ...
Bailey’s Bundle – Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part IX
by C. Michael Bailey
Yilian Cañizares and Omar Sosa Aguas Ota Records 2018 Pianist/composer Omar Sosa has established himself as a pioneer at the edge of Cubano-Caribbean music. Sosa teams with violinist/vocalist Yilian Cañizares for a breezy and sensual stroll through 11 original, for lack of a better term, world music compositions that are as ...
Alto Gusto
By PJ Perry
Label: Cellar Live
Released: 2017
Track listing: Ease It; Close Your Eyes; After the Morning; We’ll Be Together Again; Stablemates; Two Bass Hit; Quasimodo.
Time Flies
By PJ Perry
Label: Justin Time Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: St. Vitus' Dance; Counting Down; Melody for Thelma; Tenderly; Love Letters; Tempus Fugit; Warm Valley; Social Call; Spiral Stairway.
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