Terry Perkins
Terry’s Contributions
08/20/10 Concerts
David Sanborn at Jazz at the Bistro in St. Louis
Terry Perkins reviews performance by saxophonist David Sanborn and his trio at club in St. Louis
06/07/10 Concerts
First Annual JEN Conference
Terry Perkins reports on educational conference held in St. Louis, Mo.
November 2006 Albums
Timeless Portraits and Dreams
Geri Allen
Geri Allen’s 2004 Telarc debut, The Life of a Song—her first recording in more than six years—underscored her rare combination of dazzling compositional skill and melodically inventive technique. With the release of Timeless Portraits and Dreams, Allen provides...
November 2006 Albums
Latin Dreams
"Killer" Ray Appleton/Melvin Rhyne Quartet
Despite the title, the musical direction of this 2004 recording isn’t Latin jazz. Instead, the real foundation of this session goes back to the Wes Montgomery Trio, circa 1955 in Indianapolis. That edition of the guitarist’s group featured drummer “Killer”...
November 2006 Albums
Laid Back and Blues: Live at the Sky Church in Seattle
Larry Coryell
Larry Coryell honed his guitar chops as a teenager and college student on the Seattle music scene, so somehow it seems appropriate that his latest recording captures him in concert in his hometown at Sky Church, the concert venue at the Experience Music...
November 2006 Albums
Desert Heat
"Papa" John DeFrancesco
In terms of talent on the Hammond B3, the apple certainly didn’t fall far from the tree in the DeFrancesco family. Joey DeFrancesco burst onto the jazz scene in a big way back in 1988 when, after his graduation from high school, he toured with Miles Davis...
November 2006 Albums
Dizzy's Business
Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band
Take 20 top jazz musicians and arrangers, add a swinging vocalist, put them on stage at the intimate, acoustically excellent Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild in Pittsburgh, count off a downbeat, start recording and what do you get? Dizzy’s Business, a recording...
September 2006 Albums
Brotherman in the Fatherland
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Rahsaan Roland Kirk was still at the height of his creative powers when he recorded these sides in Hamburg, Germany, on March 3, 1972. Kirk’s wonderful live recording Bright Eyes (Rhino) dates from the same time period, and his stunning studio works Prepare...
September 2006 Albums
Reflections
Frank Morgan
As Frank Morgan approaches age 73, he’s now completed two decades of a remarkable comeback from the heroin addiction that derailed his musical career from the mid-1950s until 1985. During the remarkably prolific period that followed the release of his first...
September 2006 Albums
Body and Soul
Ray Nance
Ray Nance is best known for his long association with Duke Ellington’s orchestra, where he played trumpet and occasional violin from 1940 until 1963. Nance didn’t release many recordings as a leader, so this 1969 date, originally released on the Solid State...
September 2006 Albums
Who Let the Cats Out?
Mike Stern
Guitarist Mike Stern has touched quite a few stylistic bases over the course of a three-decade career that’s included stints with Miles Davis, Billy Cobham, Michael Brecker, David Sanborn and Steps Ahead—and a dozen recordings as a leader. With Who Let the...
July/August 2006 Albums
A Letter to Dexter
George Cables Trio
A Letter to Dexter is yet another finely crafted recording by the talented—and too often overlooked—pianist George Cables. Over the course of nearly four decades, Cables has worked with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, Freddie...
July/August 2006 Albums
Mighty Burner
Frank Catalano
The title of Frank Catalano’s latest recording references the late Hammond B3 master Charles Earland, with whom Catalano had the opportunity to play several years back. But it also describes the 27-year-old tenor sax player’s own take-no-prisoners approach...
July/August 2006 Albums
Small Day Tomorrow
Bob Dorough
At 83, vocalist-pianist-songwriter Bob Dorough shows no signs of slowing down—especially on Small Day Tomorrow. This time around, Dorough pays tribute to fellow songwriter Fran Landesman, whom he met in St. Louis in 1960 at the famed Gaslight Square club...
July/August 2006 Albums
American Songbook
The Phil Woods Quintet
The new Swiss record label Kind of Blue has come out swinging with several fine recordings in recent months, and this set of standards recorded by alto sax great Phil Woods and his longstanding quintet is clearly a winner. Surprisingly, pairing Woods and...
06/26/06 Concerts
US Bank Saint Louis Jazz Festival 2006
The U.S. Bank Saint Louis Jazz & Heritage Festival debuted in 2001, marking the first time this metro area—which has given the jazz world such luminaries as Miles Davis, Clark Terry, Jimmy Blanton, Oliver Nelson, Jimmy Forrest, Oliver Lake, Lester Bowie...
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ReportAbout Terry Perkins
Terry has written about music - especially jazz - since 1984. In
addition to his work for Jazz Times, Terry writes for DownBeat, is a member of the DownBeat Critics Poll, and also contributes to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the St. Louis Beacon, AllAboutJazz.com and JazzStandards.com. Based in St. Louis, MO, Terry is also co-director of Arts Junction (www.artsjunction.org), a non-profit organization that promotes music performances at educational venues and clubs throughout the Midwest.