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Sacha Perry: Not Brand X
by Laurel Gross
If you are looking for music to snooze by, steer clear of Sacha Perry. He is an electrifying pianist, like putting your finger in a socket. On Not Brand X, Perry delves into an unusual array of standards, which Perry-ized are anything but standard. There's a bounce, a swing, but dissonance and sure-handed adventurousness too. You can hear the influence of bebop (and of folks like Bud Powell, Elmo Hope and Thelonious Monk, masters of whom this ...
read moreSacha Perry: Eretik
by Eric J. Iannelli
Sacha Perry first emerged out of relative obscurity last year as a member of the Across 7 Street quintet on Made in New York, the second disc in Smalls' ever-expanding catalogue and the one that more or less established the label's prevailing sound: fresh but familiar, accessible but challenging, heady but emotive. Or to borrow others' paradoxical comments on Perry himself: neither retro nor revival," extraterrestrial and down to earth," old but new," [music] you've never heard before but thought ...
read moreSmalls Records / CD release party / Sacha Perry -- Eretik / Thursday, June 16th 10pm
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All About Jazz
Sacha Perry (piano) Ari Roland (bass) Leroy Williams (drums) Smalls Thursday June 16th 10pm 183 W10th St., NY (by subway: #1 train to Christopher Street station) For ten years now, pianist Sacha Perry has been perhaps the most familiar of the Smalls performers, appearing 2-3 times weekly between Smalls and Fat Cat in many contexts as the pianist of choice. The New York-born Perry excelled on piano early, studying both ...
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