Perry Robinson
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Perry Morris Robinson (born September 17, 1938 in New York City) is an American jazz clarinetist and composer.
Robinson is the son of the composer Earl Robinson. He grew up in New York City and attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts in the summer of 1959. His first record, Funk Dumpling (with Kenny Barron, Henry Grimes, Paul Motian) was recorded in 1962. He also appeared with Grimes on The Call in 1965. He served in the U.S. military band in the early 1960s. Since 1973 he has worked with Jeanne Lee and Gunter Hampel's Galaxie Dream Band. He contributed to Dave Brubeck' s Two Generations of Brubeck and Burton Greene' s Dutch klezmer band Klezmokum. He has led his own groups in performances and on record, with albums on the Chiaroscuro, WestWind, and Timescraper labels. More recently, he has worked with William Parker and Walter Perkins on Bob's Pink Cadillac and several discs on the CIMP label. From 1975 until 1977 he was member of a band called Clarinet Contrast around German clarinet players Theo Jörgensmann and Bernd Konrad. Robinson has been on record with Lou Grassi as a member of his PoBand since the late Nineties. also w/ Lou Grassi, Wayne Lopes and Luke Faust in 'The Jug Jam' an improvisational jug band. He plays in a free jazz and world music trio along with tabla player Badal Roy and bassist Ed Schuller. This group can be heard on their CD Raga Roni. He also plays with Muruga Booker and in the Global Village Ceremonial Band, and has played with them at the Starwood Festival, SpiritDrum Festival, and RhythmFest with Sikiru Adepoju, Halim El-Dabh, Jeff Rosenbaum and Badal Roy[1]. His autobiography, Perry Robinson: The Traveler, was published in 2002. Perry also played an integral part in the formation of 'Cosmic Legends' an improvisational music/performance group led by composer/pianist Sylvie Degiez which included musicians Rashied Ali, Wayne Lopes, Hayes Greenfield, and Michael Hashim among others. In 2005 he was featured on his cousin Jeffrey Lewis' album "City and Eastern Songs" on Rough Trade Records, produced by Kramer.
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[edit] References
- Perry Robinson: The Traveler - Florence F. Wetzel & Perry Robinson (2002) Writers Club Press (Paperback) ISBN 0595215386, ISBN 978-0595215386
[edit] External links
- "Perry Robinson Discography"
- "A Fireside chat with Perry Robinson" — at All About Jazz posted November 13, 2003
- Perry Robinson's myspace page
