Rich Perry is an American

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tenor saxophonist from

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, Ohio. Perry attended Bowling Green State University for a year before moving to New York. He toured with the

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Orchestra in 1975 and with

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the following year. He has also played with

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, Paul Bley,

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, Eddie Gómez,

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, and

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. He has recorded as a leader since 1993 on SteepleChase Records. Perry is currently a member of the

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as well as the Maria Schneider Orchestra. He is an adjunct faculty member of the

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jazz program.

Discography

As leader or co-leader

* ''To Start Again'' (

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, 1993) * ''Beautiful Love'' (SteepleChase, 1994) * ''What Is This?'' (SteepleChase, 1995) * ''Left Alone'' (SteepleChase, 1997) * ''

RichLee! ''RichLee!'' is an album by saxophonists Lee Konitz and Rich Perry recorded in 1997 and released on the Danish SteepleChase Records, SteepleChase label. Critical reception In ''JazzTimes'', Harvey Siders wrote: "''RichLee!'' is filled with conver ...

'' (SteepleChase, 1997) – with

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* ''Canções 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) * ''Grace'' (SteepleChase, 2011) * ''Time Was'' (SteepleChase, 2010) * ''Nocturne'' (SteepleChase, 2014) * ''Organique'' (SteepleChase, 2015) * ''Mood'' (SteepleChase, 2016) * ''Other Matters'' (SteepleChase, 2019) * ''Everything Happens'' (SteepleChase, 2022)

As sideman

* Paul Bley ''Speechless'' – with Victor Lewis * Sila Cevikce ''A New Abode'' *

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New York Big Band ''Up and Running'', ''No Nonsense'', ''On the Edge'' *

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''Merge into Beauty'' * ''Waltz for Sharon Stone'' (mja Records, 1997) *

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''The Joe Henderson Big Band'' *

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''Songs Without Words'', ''Point in Time'', ''Forward Motion'' * Aaron Irwin ''Into the Light'' * Clay Jenkins ''Matters of Time'' * Steve Lampert ''Venus Perplexed'', ''Music from There'' *

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''Pianissimo'' * Pete Malinverni ''Invisible Cities'' *

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'' Soft Hands'', ''Dream Team'', ''Double Triangle'' – with Tim Hagans, Mark Copeland, Billy Hart * George Mraz ''Bottom Lines'', ''Mraz Jazz'' – with Richie Beirach, Al Foster * Jeanfrançois Prins ''El Gaucho'' – with

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''The Gait Keeper'', ''Live at the Kennedy Center'' * Dave Scott ''Song for Amy'', ''Naivete'', ''Nonchalant'' * Dave Stryker ''Blue to the Bone'', ''Big Room'' *

''Up from the Skies'', ''The Way'', ''Can I Persuade You'', ''Lickety Split'', ''The Thad Jones Legacy'' *

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''Time and Again''

References

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