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Coach Slay, Coach Pami, Jordan Burroughs (4x World Champion. Olympic Gold Medalist. 2x Olympian), Coach Renda and Rich Perry (https://www.instagram.com/p/Bmo955HAd1i/?taken-by=alliseeisgold)

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Rich Perry – Happy Destiny (Steeplechase)

Tenorist Rich Perry has made self-deprecation a calling card alongside his prodigious talents as band leader and improviser. To hear him tell it, he’s only nominally responsible for the quality of the music on Happy Destiny, a follow-up to an earlier album that also focused solely on his compositions as rendered by the same ensemble. The real architects in his estimation are his band, particularly pianist Gary Versace, who supplies the chordal muscle and sinew that hold Perry’s “simple” tunes together. Both projects were a response to and redirection from Perry’s usual purview of jazz standards. Only a scattering of originals graced the two dozen projects bearing his name for the Danish label prior to the welcome detour.

John Coltrane is one of Perry’s oldest and most indelible influences and he brings an analogous ethos to his approach on the varied array of originals. When shaping a line with his horn, it’s not so much what he’s playing as how he plays it. Contour, texture and placement combine to create solos that celebrate the efficiency of their tethering structures while revelling in the instinctiveness of extemporaneous expression. “Iron Buddha,” sketched in two guises, is a tandem example of this consistently consensual catharsis. As album opener, the first version snakes out on a supple Perry line, answered by a circular response from Versace and descending interlude by bassist Jay Anderson. The second, situated at program midpoint, decelerates tempo to a delicate stroll, trading momentum for palpably somber atmosphere and a solo from the leader striated with tonal declensions.

“Everything Hurts” and “Plant Based” deal in funky syncopations that are especially efficacious for Anderson and drummer John Riley, who weaves some tambourine into the knee-knocking backbeat on the first and sets a sliding meter with brushes on the second. Perry blows soulfully and broadly on both, parsing his lines with pauses that playfully boost vertical tension. Versace’s solo on the second builds an edifice of vibrating clusters that contrasts with the uniformity of the beat. The two-part title piece brings the Coltrane correlation into clearest focus, commencing with a clarion theme over skittering percussion from Riley and moving into advanced tonal exploration. Perry’s modesty is refreshingly audible throughout in a band that creates as a cadre of equals. His name gets the largest typeface, but true to Perry’s perpetual modesty, it’s very much a group effort.

Derek Taylor

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Gov. Rick Perry indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power

Gov. Rick Perry indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power

http://twitter.com/#!/MattMackowiak/status/500412104126787584

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on two felony counts Friday for abuse of power over a threat to veto prosecutors’ funding. The Associated Press reports:

A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public…

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Gov. Rick Perry indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power

Gov. Rick Perry indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power

http://twitter.com/#!/MattMackowiak/status/500412104126787584

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on two felony counts Friday for abuse of power over a threat to veto prosecutors’ funding. The Associated Press reports:

A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public…

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Gov. Rick Perry indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power

Gov. Rick Perry indicted by grand jury on charges of abuse of power

http://twitter.com/#!/MattMackowiak/status/500412104126787584

Texas Gov. Rick Perry was indicted on two felony counts Friday for abuse of power over a threat to veto prosecutors’ funding. The Associated Press reports:

A grand jury indicted Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Friday for abusing the powers of his office by carrying out a threat to veto funding for state prosecutors investigating public…

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Rich Perry – Other Matters (Steeplechase)

Tenorist Rich Perry tends to toe a musical trajectory rich in melodic deconstruction and harmonic complexity. Other Matters, his twenty-fifth album for the Danish Steeplechase label, is no different in that regard. Where it does deviate and subsequently live up to the promise of its title is an intrepid reliance on original material. Much of Perry’s previous output as a leader and sideman is steeped in interpretations of the Great American Songbook. Creatively rendered takes on standards are his buttered bread. Here, he eschews those ingredients completely and fields an ace ensemble in the service of tunes that draw elliptically on the influence of another sacred elephant in the room that is modern jazz: John Coltrane.

Coltrane’s Classic Quartet with McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Garrison, and Elvin Jones endures as one of the indelible templates for scalar improvisation in the idiom. Perry pulls from this source without the slightest bit of plagiarism. “Transparency” blooms from a Satie-like motif plied by pianist Gary Versace that forms the tonal center around which Perry delicately threads a pastoral solo. “Ohayo” shifts the center to rhythmic swish of drummer John Riley’s brushes and another Perry improvisation plied through an Eastern-influenced melodic progression. Versace comps discretely and bassist Jay Anderson is more of a feeling than a presence, but the pair are integral to the action as propellants. 

Spatial dynamics drive and define “Sonos”, “Neta”, and “Mndfl”. Another fragile piano figure ignites the first with Perry’s flirtations coming in abbreviated starts and stops that distantly recall the sort of subterfuge that’s still the signature of Wayne Shorter. Anderson folds in a brief bass detour amid Riley’s cymbal splashes while Versace trades in alternating cascades and pointillism. The other two are kindred compositions from the perspective of minor key ballads in the spirit if not letter of Coltrane’s “Lonnie’s Lament.” There’s a refreshing flavor of pan-directional freedom to all of it; that exceptional combination of expert players assembled in an egalitarian consensus on a parcel of tunes ripe for personalized contextualization. In short, it’s at once the album that Perry’s been meaning to make and listeners loyal and newly-minted have been waiting for.

Derek Taylor

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Im Konzert gewesen. Mareike Wiening komponiert entspannten Jazz und hat ihre metropolitanen Mannen vom Schlagzeug aus voll im Griff. Und freut sich über die Trommellampen (kein Jazzbeitrag ist vollständig ohne eine eine Bemerkung über Lampen).