Rich Perry is an American

United States

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 jazz

Jazz

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 tenor saxophonist from Cleveland

Cleveland, Ohio

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, Ohio

Ohio

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Rich Perry attended Bowling Green State University

Bowling Green State University

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 for a year before moving to New York. Perry first toured with the Glenn Miller

Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller was an American jazz musician , arranger, composer, and bandleader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1943, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...

 Orchestra in 1975, and followed it with time in the Thad Jones

Thad Jones

Thaddeus Joseph Jones was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader.-Biography:Thad Jones was born in Pontiac, Michigan to a musical family of ten . Thad Jones was a self taught musician, performing professionally by the age of sixteen...

/Mel Lewis

Mel Lewis

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 Orchestra the following year. He has also played with Chet Baker

Chet Baker

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, Machito

Machito

Machito , born as Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo, was an influential Latin jazz musician who helped refine Afro-Cuban jazz and create both Cubop and salsa music...

, Bob Moses

Bob Moses (musician)

Rakalam Bob Moses is an American jazz drummer born in New York City.Moses played with Roland Kirk in 1964-65 while he was still a teenager. In 1966 he and Larry Coryell formed The Free Spirits, a jazz fusion ensemble, and from 1967 to 1969 he played in Gary Burton's quartet...

, Jack McDuff

Jack McDuff

"Brother" Jack McDuff was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio.-Career:...

, Billy Hart

Billy Hart

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, Eddie Gomez

Eddie Gomez

Edgar "Eddie" Gómez is a Puerto Rican jazz double bassist born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, perhaps most notable for his work done with the Bill Evans trio from 1966 to 1977.-Biography:...

, Tom Harrell

Tom Harrell

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, and Harold Danko

Harold Danko

Harold Danko is an American jazz pianist.Danko attended Youngstown State University. Among his credits are work in the big bands of Chet Baker, Woody Herman, and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis, as well as smaller ensembles with Gerry Mulligan and Lee Konitz...

. He has released copiously as a leader since 1993 on Steeplechase Records

SteepleChase Records

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Perry is currently a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as Maria Schneider

Maria Schneider (musician)

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's Orchestra. He is an adjunct faculty member of the William Paterson University

William Paterson University

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 Jazz program.

As leader

• To Start Again (Steeplechase Records
  SteepleChase Records
  SteepleChase Records is a jazz record label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time...
  
  , 1993)
• Beautiful Love (Steeplechase, 1994)
• What Is This? (Steeplechase, 1995)
• Left Alone (Steeplechase, 1997)
• Cancoes do Brasil (Steeplechase, 2000)
• So in Love (Steeplechase, 2000)
• Doxy (Steeplechase, 2000)
• O Grand Amor (Steeplechase, 2001)
• Hearsay (Steeplechase, 2002)
• At Eastman (Steeplechase, 2003)
• East of the Sun and West of 2nd Avenue (Steeplechase, 2004)
• You're My Everything (Steeplechase, 2005)
• Rhapsody (Steeplechase, 2006)
• At the Kitano, Vol. 1 (Steeplechase, 2006)
• E.Motion (Steeplechase, 2007)
• At the Kitano, Vol. 2 (Steeplechase, 2008)
• Gone" (Steeplechase, 2010)
• At the Kitano, Vol 3) (Steeplechase, 2010)

As sideman

• Pete Malinverni: "Invisible Cities"
• Rufus Reid: "The Gait Keeper", "Live At The Kennedy Center"
• Gary Versace: "Time And Again"
• Dave Scott: "Song For Amy", "Naivete","Nonchalant"
• Christian Finger: "Merge Into Beauty"
• George Mraz : "Bottom Lines", "Mraz Jazz", with Richie Beirach, Al Foster
• Fred Hersch : "Songs Without Words", "Point in Time", "Forward Motion"
• Ron McClure : "Soft Hands", "Dream Team", "Double Triangle", with Tim Hagans, Mark Copeland, Billy Hart
• Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: "Up From The Skies", "The Way", "Can I Persuade You", "Lickety Split", "The Thad Jones Legacy"
• Andy LaVerne: "Pianissimo"
• Paul Bley: "Speechles" ,with Victor Lewis
• The John Fedchock New York Big Band: "Up And Running", "No Nonsense", "On the Edge"
• Dave Stryker: "Blue to the Bone" , "Big Room"
• Lee Konitz: "RichLee"
• Steve Lampert: "Venus Perplexed", "Music From There"
• Joe Henderson: "The Joe Henderson Big Band"
• Clay Jenkins: "Matters Of Time"
• Sila Cevikce: "A New Abode"
• Aaron Irwin: "Into The Light"'