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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

Album

Duos

By Bernie Senensky

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2026
Track listing: The Mover; I Hear A Rhapsody; I Thought About You; Bud Lines; In My Life; Lolito; My One & Only Love; One Is Enough; Come To Me; Silver Trane.

Article: Album Review

Bernie Senensky: Duos

by Pierre Giroux
April 22, 2026

Duos by Bernie Senensky is a record built on patience, craftsmanship, and the quiet confidence of musicians working together. It is a carefully arranged and well-executed set that highlights one of Canada's most respected pianists performing in a duo, accompanied only by a saxophone voice from a select group of notable North American saxophonists, where any ...

Album

No Hugs

By PJ Perry

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2022
Track listing: Too Soon Gone; Agoraphobia; So Long; March Of The Covidians; No Hugs; The Kestrel; Scaredy Cat; Gring's Dilemma.

Article: Album Review

PJ Perry: No Hugs

by Jack Bowers
December 25, 2022

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 ...

Article: Album Review

PJ Perry: No Hugs

Read "No Hugs" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
December 21, 2022

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. ...

Album

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

Song of the Day

September 1905

May 26, 2021

Album: Saskatchewan Suite
By Fred Stride
Label: Chronograph Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 04:58

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Charlie Parker & Sonny Rollins

by Joe Dimino
September 23, 2019

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 ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Bailey’s Bundle – Seven Women (Plus Three) 2018 – Part IX

by C. Michael Bailey
October 5, 2018

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 ...