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Luis Perdomo

Luis Perdomo grew up in a home filled with music. Born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1971, Luis was exposed to just about every style of music by his father, an avid music fan and collector. Alongside salsa, Latin, R & B, and classical, the young Perdomo heard jazz greats like Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson, two of his earliest and most important musical influences. Drawn to jazz and to the piano at an early age, Luis was making regular professional appearances on Venezuelan TV and radio by the time he was twelve.

It was about this same time that Luis started to think more and more about the possibility of pursuing a life in music. The more he began to listen and to read about jazz—his tastes had expanded to include players like Cecil Taylor and John Coltrane—the more he became aware of one undeniable truth. All his favorite artists lived and/or recorded in New York City. Thus, it was only a matter of time before he too would make that move.

A full scholarship to the prestigious Manhattan School of Music was the catalyst. And it was at MSM where he began his formal study in both classical and jazz piano with Harold Danko and Martha Pestalozzi respectively. After receiving his BA in Jazz Performance in 1997, Luis pursued his Masters at Queens College with the legendary Sir Roland Hanna. This was perhaps one of the most pivotal moments in his development as an artist. “While studying with Sir Roland Hanna, I came to realize just how little I knew about both the piano and the music. He forced me to start with a clean slate and to re-evaluate my musical perceptions—both about jazz and the history of jazz piano. I began to look at jazz and classical music in a new and more in-depth way and my playing evolved accordingly.”

Luis’ music “education,” was not limited to the classroom. Soon after moving to New York, he quickly established himself as an in-demand pianist amassing quite an impressive resume. Some of the artists Luis has collaborated and/or performed with include Ravi Coltrane, John Patitucci, Ray Barretto Brian Lynch, David Sanchez, Claudia Acuña, Dave Samuels and the Caribbean Jazz Project, Butch Morris, Dave Valentin, Jane Bunnett, John Benetez, Ralph Irizarry, Jerry Gonzalez and the Fort Apache Band, Alice Coltrane, Dafnis Prieto and Yosvany Terry. A list that is as notable both by its quality as well as its diversity. As a regular member of groups led by John Benetez, Miguel Zenón, Ray Barretto and Ravi Coltrane, Luis has made his mark as a performer, a composer and arranger. He can be heard most recently on Ray Barretto’s Homage to Art Blakey and Miguel Zenón’s Ceremonial.

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Album Review

Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band: The Pan American Nutcracker Suite

Read "The Pan American Nutcracker Suite" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Yes, Peter Tchaikovsky's timeless Nutcracker Suite is basically holiday music; and, yes, the 2022 holiday season is squarely in everyone's rear-view mirror. Even so, there is always room for a fresh approach to the annual festive staple, which is what drummer Joe McCarthy's New York Afro Bop Alliance Big Band brings to The Pan American Nutcracker Suite. The Nutcracker has been rhythmically amended before, but never quite like this, as McCarthy and the band use the strong ...

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Joe McCarthy's Afro Bop Alliance Big Band: The Pan American Nutcracker Suite

Read "The Pan American Nutcracker Suite" reviewed by Richard J Salvucci


"The Nutcracker" is a holiday staple and, as many musical and dance companies around the United States and Europe will tell you, thank Heaven for it. The musicians and performers may eventually lose their sanity from repeat performances, but the ballet is a money-maker as sure as holiday sales generate commercial profits for retailers. Besides, someone is inevitably hearing it for the first time, and children—even some adults—seem to enjoy it. This year, the season starts early with ...

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Miguel Zenon: Musica De Las Americas

Read "Musica De Las Americas" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Alto saxophonist Miguel Zenon has made a career out of exploring his Puerto Rican roots, with albums like Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis Music, 2011), Tipico (Miel Music, 2017) and Yo Soy La Tradicion (Miel Music, 2018). With Musica De Las Americas he broadens his vision to celebrate the history of the American continents, north and south, as well as the multiplicity of America's Atlantic Ocean islands, to delve into the history of this expanse of lands--before and ...

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Greg Germann: Tales of Time

Read "Tales of Time" reviewed by Jack Bowers


Tales of Time is the sort of album musicians are most apt to dissect and appreciate. New York-based drummer Greg Germann uses various time signatures to subdivide eleven of his original compositions, building a strong rhythmic platform from which to launch his assorted themes. Germann supervises a quartet whose other members are tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin, pianist Luis Perdomo and bassist Yasushi Nakamura (singer Chelsea Forgenie is front and center on the ballad “Time to Move On"). ...

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Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo: El Arte Del Bolero

Read "El Arte Del Bolero" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Dopo l'avvincente Sonero dedicato al songbook di Ismael Rivera--il grande cantante portoricano noto come El Sonero Mayor e amato in tutta l'America latina--il sassofonista Miguel Zenon sceglie una dimensione più intima, continuando però a scavare nelle memorie dell'infanzia. Il progetto è infatti dedicato a celebri bolero della tradizione, resi famosi da Benny Moré,Ray Barretto, Arsenio Rodriguez, Cheo Feliciano e dalla seducente cantante cubana Victoria Yolí Raymond, meglio nota come “La Lupe." «Queste non sono canzoni qualsiasi—ha commentato ...

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Luis Perdomo: Montage

Read "Montage" reviewed by Mark Corroto


The highest praise you can give to a recording by a solo performer is that the music was made just for your ears. Pianist Luis Perdomo's Montage gives just that impression. It's easy to imagine these fifteen tracks were played in your living room, or automobile, for that matter.  After releasing seven discs as a leader, with sideman like drummers Jack DeJohnette, Rudy Royston, Ralph Peterson, Eric McPherson and Nasheet Waits, bassists Dwayne Burno, Drew Gress, Ugonna Okegwo, ...

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Luis Perdomo: Twenty-Two

Read "Twenty-Two" reviewed by Dave Wayne


There are so many really good jazz piano trio albums bouncing around of late, that it's truly unusual to hear something that stands out these days. The first few tracks of Luis Perdomo's seventh album as a leader, Twenty-Two, are as technically accomplished and downright pretty as anything out there, but they struck me as less than extraordinary. Just really pleasant and really incredibly well- executed. A native of Venezuela who's best known for his decade- long collaboration with Ravi ...

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Hot Tone Music To Release New CDs By Bassist Mimi Jones & Pianist Luis Perdomo, May 13

Hot Tone Music To Release New CDs By Bassist Mimi Jones & Pianist Luis Perdomo, May 13

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Hot Tone Music, the artist-run label founded by bassist /composer Mimi Jones in 2009, announces the simultaneous release on May 13 of new CDs by Jones (Feet in the Mud) and pianist/composer Luis Perdomo (Montage). Perdomo’s Montage is his eighth album as a leader but the first solo piano recording in his distinguished career. After he’d begun playing solo concerts three years ago, this ever-evolving artist reached out to his pianist friend Fred Hersch “to fine-tune some aspects of my ...

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Guitarist/Composer David Gilmore Releases "Numerology" "Live at the Ja77 Standard" Featuring David Gilmore with Claudia Acua A, Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo, Christian McBride, Jeff "Tain" Watts and Mino Cinelu

Guitarist/Composer David Gilmore Releases "Numerology" "Live at the Ja77 Standard" Featuring David Gilmore with Claudia Acua A, Miguel Zenon, Luis Perdomo, Christian McBride, Jeff "Tain" Watts and Mino Cinelu

Source: Two for the Show Media

Numerology Suite is musical exploration into the mystical, divine, and spiritual meaning of numbers, which reflect the creation of the Universe and the underlying structure upon which the material world is built. Music is the language of the Universe, and the elements of music - harmony, melody and rhythm, are all expressions of number. Pythagoras, the father of mathematics, taught that the numbers one through nine represent the universal principles and progressive cycles in life. Here David Gilmore invites the ...

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Pianist/Composer Luis Perdomo Releases New CD "Universal Mind" from RKM Music on February 14th, 2012

Pianist/Composer Luis Perdomo Releases New CD "Universal Mind" from RKM Music on February 14th, 2012

Source: Two for the Show Media

Universal Mind is the perfect title for the newest release from Luis Perdomo. The three-way connection between the extraordinary jazz pianist and composer and his world-class collaborators, bassist Drew Gress and the legendary Jack DeJohnette on drums, is apparent from the first moments of this exhilarating new release from RKM Records. The Village Voice called Perdomo “a rather amazing improviser" and added, “The pianist is making a name for himself by feverishly assaulting the progressive edge of mainstream jazz." With ...

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Pianist Luis Perdomo Interviewed at AAJ

Pianist Luis Perdomo Interviewed at AAJ

Source: All About Jazz

How do you get from Caracas, Venezuela to Carnegie Hall? Well, first you come to the States on vacation, win a full scholarship to a conservatory, study with legends like Roland Hanna, then ... well, you get the idea.

That's the journey undertaken by pianist and composer Luis Perdomo. It's a trip that has taken him from Latin powerhouses like Timbalaye and Ray Barretto's band to more mainstream jazz groups led by folks like Ravi Coltrane and Brian Lynch. Perdomo ...

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The Jazz Session: Luis Perdomo

The Jazz Session: Luis Perdomo

Source: All About Jazz

On the new episode of The Jazz Session, Jason Crane interviews pianist Luis Perdomo. Since coming to New York from his native Venezuela, Perdomo has blossomed as a player. As a student at the Manhattan School of Music and at Queens College, he studied with pianists Harold Danko and Sir Roland Hanna. As a professional musician, he's played with Ray Baretto, Ravi Coltrane, Miguel Zenon, Dafnis Prieto, and Timbalaye, to name a few. Perdomo's adventurous new record is Awareness (RKM ...

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Luis Perdomo Trio at Sculler's Thursday April 28th

Luis Perdomo Trio at Sculler's Thursday April 28th

Source: All About Jazz

April 4, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Hi folks... To all my friends in the Boston area, I'm very excited to inform you that I will be performing at Sculler's with my own trio, featuring bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Eric McPherson on Thursday April 28th... I'll be playing music from my recently release debut CD “Focus Point" on the RKM Music label, as well as some new music from my upcoming project... ...

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Luis Perdomo Trio @ The Jazz Gallery/Friday, March 25 Performing Music from his debut CD "Focus Point"

Luis Perdomo Trio @ The Jazz Gallery/Friday, March 25 Performing Music from his debut CD "Focus Point"

Source: All About Jazz

March 17, 2005 To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES Press Contact: JIM EIGO, [email protected] Luis Perdomo Trio @ The Jazz Gallery, Friday March 25 Performing Music from his debut CD “Focus Point" (RKM) Luis Perdomo, piano Drew Gress, bass Eric McPherson, drums The Jazz Gallery 290 Hudson (at Spring) Cover: $15 Set Times: 9:00pm and 10:30pm Reservations Recommended: 212.242.1063 www.jazzgallery.org Luis Perdomo's maiden voyage as a leader is as impressive a debut disc as any released by a young musician ...

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Luis Perdomo Quintet Friday, June 21st at the The Jazz Gallery

Luis Perdomo Quintet Friday, June 21st at the The Jazz Gallery

Source: All About Jazz

290 Hudson Street (below Spring) 212-242-1063 www.jazzgallery.org Sets at 9:00 & 10:30 $12 featuring Luis Perdomo - piano Sam Newsome - soprano sax Miguel Zenon - alto sax Essiet Okon Essiet - bass Ralph Peterson - drums Born in Caracas - Venezuela ( February 19th - 1971), Luis Perdomo started on piano at age ...

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The Pan American...

Angel Face Records
2022

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El Arte Del Bolero

Miel Music
2021

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Tales of Time

Origin Records
2021

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Montage

Hot Tone Music
2016

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Twenty-Two

Hot Tone Music
2015

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Tainos y Caribes

From: Musica De Las Americas
By Luis Perdomo

Rush Hour

From: Tales of Time
By Luis Perdomo

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