Rich Perry - East of the Sun and West of 2nd Avenue

Styles: Saxophone Jazz
Year: 2004
File: MP3@224K/s
Time: 62:03
Size: 100,6 MB
Art: Front

(6:45)  1. I thought about you
(6:33)  2. The touch of your lips
(8:00)  3. My ideal
(7:08)  4. East of the sun
(7:59)  5. Soul eyes
(5:52)  6. Yours and mine
(6:31)  7. My shining hour
(6:38)  8. Falling in love
(6:32)  9. Three little words

Rich Perry is that rarest of tenor saxophonists a complete musician with an understanding of space and timing, a palpable sense of color and humor and absolutely no need to showboat or compromise. Whether he's a featured soloist in a big band or leading a quartet date (as heard here), he makes jazz that's adventurous and highly listenable with a smart and sympathetic band playing standards not frequently performed and in new ways of playing in the tradition. Listen, for example, to the approach to Ray Noble's "The Touch of Your Lips. Through an almost rubato statement of the theme and then into some elaborate improvisation, Perry plays both the tune and its changes in his soloing, giving it a different and new life. It's almost impressionistic the melody is more hinted at and around, than played right out.  

Perry takes on music by Jimmy Van Heusen, Harold Arlen and Harry Ruby from the world of popular song and tackles some intriguing and rarely essayed jazz tunes from Mal Waldron's "Soul Eyes to Thad Jones' "Yours and Mine and the very rare "Falling Love by Victor Feldman. He has also chosen wisely in his bandmates, seasoned veterans who don't sound as if they played every tune a million times before. Listen to what this great group does with "My Shining Hour it's up-tempo and engaging because we have to listen to find what the leader and the company he keeps do with the melody. All the tunes are played as if they were new and never improvised on before and that makes for the best kind of jazz. ~ Donald Elfman https://www.allaboutjazz.com/rich-perry-and-harold-danko-east-of-the-sun-and-trilix-by-donald-elfman.php

Personnel:  Rich Perry (tenor sax); Harold Danko (piano); John Hebert (bass); Jeff Hirshfield (drums).

East of the sun and west of 2nd avenue

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