PJ Perry | Discography

PJ Perry CD info is a varied and delightful collection original bebop tunes as well renditions from some greatest jazz players past and present. PJ and his friends (all great players) create music that you will want to visit again and again.

Old Friends
With Tommy Banks

Released 2013

• Tommy Banks – Piano
• PJ Perry – Tenor and Alto Sax

1. First Song for Ruth
2. All We Know (Fred Carlin)     
3. Joy Spring (Clifford Brown)
4. My Old Flame (Arthur Johnston)
5. The Best Things in Life are Free (DeSylva Brown)
6. Darn That Dream (Eddie De Lange)     
7. Ceora (Lee Morgan)
8. Laura (David Raksin)
9. My Foolish Heart (Victor Young)
10. If You Could See Me Now (Tad Dameron)
11. Blue and Sentimental (Basie/Livingston/David)
12. September Song (Kurt Weill)
13. Delilah (Victor Young)
14. My Ideal (Newell Chase)
15. Old Folks (Willard Robison)
16. You Can’t Go Home Again (Don Sebesky)
    

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Ubiquitous

Released 2011

• PJ Perry – Alto Saxophone
• Kevin Dean – Trumpet
• Mark Eisenman – Piano
• Neil Swainson – Acoustic Bass
• Andre White – Drums

1. Ubiquitous     
2. Nowheresville (White)
3. Benny’s Ballad (Eisenman)
4. Either Way (White)
5. You’d Be (Eisenman)
6. Scene in Passing (Swainson)
7. Hip Bone (Dean)
8. Atavan (PJ Perry)
   

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Nota Bene

Released 2009

• PJ Perry – Alto Saxophone
• Mark Eisenman – Piano
• Neil Swainson – Bass
• John Sumner – Drums

1. Parker’s Mood (Bird)
2. Salsa Saxófono ( PJ Perry)     
3. Be My Love - CD - Nota Bene     
4. Arnie (PJ Perry)
5. Dr. Gu (PJ Perry)
6. Limehouse Blues (Braham/Ferber)
7. The Gypsy (Billy Reid)
8. Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael)
9. Nico’s Nightmare ( PJ Perry)
10. What’ll I Do ? (Irving Berlin)
11. Nica’s Dream (Horace Silver)
12. Arokis (PJ Perry)
    

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Joined at the Hip

Released 2007

• PJ Perry – Alto Sax
• Campbell Ryga – Alto Sax
• Ross Taggart – Piano
• Neil Swainson – Bass
• Terry Clarke – Drums

1. Ah leu Cha (Charlie Parker)
2. Con Alto (Campbell Ryga)
3. Everything Happens to Me     
4. Royal Tease (PJ Perry)
5. Maybe Yes, Maybe No (Ross Taggart)
6. I Can’t Get Started (Duke/Gershwin & Chapell)
7. Line For Art (Marroco AMNFN Music)
   

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Trio

Released 2006

• PJ Perry – Tenor/Alto Saxophone / Clarinet
• Reg Shwager – Guitar
• Neil Swainson – Bass

1. Reminiscent     
2. Quasimodo (Charlie Parker)
3. It's Alright With Me (Cole Porter)     
4. I Have Dreamed (Rogers/Hammerstein)
5. Stuffy Turkey (Thelonius Monk)
6. I Get Sentimental Over Nothing (M. Alton/Nat King Cole)
7. Seba Summer (PJ Perry)
8. Our Little Town (The Heath Brothers)
9. Red (PJ Perry)
10. McFunk (PJ Perry)
11. PJ’s Blues (PJ Perry)
    

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Time Flies

Released 2005

• PJ Perry – Tenor & Alto Saxophone
• Bobby Shew – Trumpet & Flugelhorn
• Ross Taggart – Piano
• Neil Swainson – Bass
• Andre LaChance – Bass
• Joe LaBarbera – Drums
• Dave Robbins – Drums

1. St. Vitus' Dance     
2. Counting Down (Bobby Shew)
3. Melody for Thelma (Richard A. Mitchel)
4. Tenderly (Walter Gross/Lawrence Jack)
5. Love Letters (Edward Heyman/Victor Young)
6. Tempus Fugit (Bud Powell)
7. Warm Valley (Duke Ellington)
8. Social Call (Bashir Qusim)
9. Spiral Stairway (Ilsa Eckinger)
   

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Come Sunday

Released 2003

• PJ Perry – Saxophones
• Doug Riley – Piano & B3 Organ

1. Sermonette     
2. Goody Two Shoes (Doug Riley)
3. Come Sunday (Duke Ellington)
4. Peace (Horace Silver)
5. What a Friend We Have in Jesus (C.L. Converse)
6. Amazing Grace (John Newton, L. Walker)
7. Freedom (Doug Riley)
8. Holy Land (Cedar Walton)
9. A Waltz (PJ Perry)
10. Abide With Me (W.H. Monk / H.F. Lyte / R. Johnson)
    

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PJ Perry and the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

Produced by Tommy Banks
Released 2003

• PJ Perry – Tenor & Alto Saxophone
• Mark Eisenmann – Piano
• Neil Swainson & John Taylor – Bass
• Arnie Chycoski – Lead Trumpet
• Bob Tindesley – Solo Trumpet
• George Ursan – Drums
• Ravi Pooliah – Latin Jazz Percussion

1. Django
2. Charlie Parker Medley
3. Bossa Nova Medley
4. They Kept Bach’s Head Alive
5. Ballad Medley
6. Hand In Hand
7. Harlem Nocturne     
8. The Old Castle
9. Strike Up The Band
   

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Quintet

Released 1993

• PJ Perry – Soprano & Alto Sax
• Bob Tindesley – Trumpet
• Chris Andrew – Piano & Synthesizer
• Miles Hill – Bass
• Claude Ranger – Drums

1. Jazz Suite (Chris Andrew)
2. They Kept Bach’s Head Alive (Bob Tildesley)
3. L.L. (Bob Tildesley)
4. Royal Tease (PJ Perry)
5. Negligence (Chris Andrew)
6. No Matter (Chris Andrew)
7. Doodle     
8. Don’t Forget (Bob Tildesley
   

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Worth Waiting For

Released 1991

• PJ Perry – Tenor/Alto Saxophone
• Kenny Barron – Piano
• Cuck Deardorf – Bass
• Victor Lewis – Drums

1. I Cried For You     
2. Stardust (Carmichael/Parish)
3. You’d Be So Easy To Love (Porter)
4. Blue and Sentimental (Basie/Livingston/David)
5. Poor Butterfly (Golden/Hubbe)
6. Blue Daniel (Rosolino)
7. Star Crossed Lovers (Ellington/Strayhorn)
8. Namely You (Mercer/DePaul)
9. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (Kern/Horbach)
10. My Old Flame (Coslow/Johnston)
11. Dig (Davis)
12. Everytime We Say Goodbye (Porter)
13. My Ideal (Newell Chase/Leo Robin/Richard Whiting)
14. Never Let Me Go (Ray Evans/Jay Livingston)
    

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PJ Perry – Live at George’s Jazz Room

Recorded live in Toronto: June 29, 1991
Gary Williamson piano, Steve Wallace bass, and Jerry Fuller drums.

1. I Cried for You (Live)
2. Everybody’s Song But My Own (Live)
3. Ceora (Live)
4. Bessie’s Blues (Live)
5. Isfahan (Live)
6. Dig (Live)
7. Like Someone in Love (Live)
8. Sermonette (Live)
9. Asiatic Raes (Live)

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My Ideal

Released 1989

• PJ Perry – Tenor/Alto Saxophone
• Mulgrew Millar – Piano
• Neil Swainson – Bass
• Victor Lewis – Drums

1. Nicolia     
2. Kira Samba (PJ Perry)
3. If I Should Lose You (Robin-Ringer)
4. Helsingborg (T. Oxbol)
5. My Ideal (R.A. Whiting)
6. Cheryl (C. Parker)
7. Mother Night (P. Dwyer)
8. Easy to Love (C. Parker)
9. Doodle (PJ Perry)
   

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