Gene Perla (born March 1, 1940) is an American
jazz bassist.
Career
At the
Berklee School of Music and the
Boston Conservatory Perla concentrated on piano before moving to double bass.
In 1969 he spent one year as a member of the
Woody Herman Orchestra.
During the early 1970s, he worked with
Elvin Jones,
Sonny Rollins
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,
Sarah Vaughan
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Nicknamed "Sassy" and "Jazz royalty, The Divine One", she won two Grammy Awards, including the Lifetime Achievement Award, and was nominated for a total of nine ...
, and
The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra
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. In 1975 he started the band Stone Alliance with
Don Alias and
Steve Grossman.
Also in the 1970s he founded
PM Records PM Records is a jazz label established by Gene Perla in 1973. PM released recordings by Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, Elvin Jones, Bernie Senensky, Don Thompson, Pat LaBarbera, and Ed Bickert. Perla played bass on 31 of PM's 46 albums released to th ...
("PM" for Perla Music), which released albums by Steve Grossman, Elvin Jones,
Pat LaBarbera
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, and
Dave Liebman.
He has taught at Lehigh University and the New School of Jazz & Contemporary Music.
Discography
As leader
* ''Bill's Waltz'' (PM, 2008)
* ''Out of the Gate'' (PM, 2017)
As sideman
With
Miles Davis
* ''
The Complete Jack Johnson Sessions'' (Columbia, 1970)
With
Frank Foster
* ''
The Loud Minority
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Rece ...
'' (Mainstream, 1972)
With
Elvin Jones
* ''
Genesis
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'' (Blue Note, 1971)
* ''
Merry-Go-Round
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'' (Blue Note, 1971)
* ''
Mr. Jones'' (Blue Note, 1972)
* ''
Live at the Lighthouse'' (Blue Note, 1972)
* ''Hollow Out'' with
Masabumi Kikuchi (Philips, 1972)
* ''
At This Point in Time
''At This Point in Time'' is an album by an eleven-piece band led by jazz drummer Elvin Jones that was recorded in 1973 and released in 1998.
Track listing
# "At This Point in Time" (Frank Foster) – 7:34
# "Currents/Pollen" (Gene Perla, Don Gar ...
'' (Blue Note, 1973)
* ''
Elvin Jones is "On the Mountain"
''On the Mountain'' is a jazz album by drummer Elvin Jones with keyboardist Jan Hammer and bassist Gene Perla recorded in 1975 and originally released on Perla's PM label.
Reception
Jim Todd of Allmusic called the album "a minor, if somewhat ov ...
'' (PM, 1975)
* ''
New Agenda'' (Vanguard, 1975)
* ''
The Truth: Heard Live at the Blue Note'' (Half Note, 1999)
With
Jeremy Steig
* ''
Energy'' (Capitol, 1971)
* ''
Fusion'' (Groove Merchant, 1972)
With
Mickey Tucker
* ''
Triplicity'' (Xanadu, 1975)
With
Nina Simone
* ''
To Love Somebody (album)
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''(1968)
* ''
Here Comes the Sun (album)''()
* ''
A Very Rare Evening (album)''()
References
External links
Official site
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1940 births
Living people
People from Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
20th-century American bass guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
American jazz bass guitarists
American male bass guitarists
American male jazz musicians
Berklee College of Music alumni