chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 b.p. plays his patented sax synthesizer?!?!? WTF??have you guys ever heard this lp/ its on CONTEMPORARY, from 1984.....oh god how i need it! Quote
JSngry Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 I have heard it, and I very much enjoy it. He sounds like Wayne Shorter more than once, and w/o the aid of any synthesizer! Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 I have heard it, and I very much enjoy it. He sounds like Wayne Shorter more than once, and w/o the aid of any synthesizer! Does it sound like an 80s album? That 1984 date on it frightens me. Quote
JSngry Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 It's all "straight ahead", not pop/fusion, if that's what you mean. And the sax synth is used very sparingly. But Perkins in 1984 was not playing like Perkins in 1954, not even close. This has caused consternations of sorts for some, but not for your writer, who finds it all wonderfully goofy (in a good way, of course). Quote
Teasing the Korean Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 So it doesn't have any bad 80s production? God, that was such a bankrupt decade! Quote
JSngry Posted January 12, 2009 Report Posted January 12, 2009 Nope. Direct bass, but done right. Pretty clean recording, w/o any gimmickry. Just a straightahead quartet date w/the occasional sax synth to create a section effect. Frank Strazzerri on piano, Joel DiBartolo on bass, and and a wholly situational-appropriate Peter Erskine on drums. The internets used to have it, but you know how them internets can be, here today, not here tomorrow. Quote
chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez Posted January 13, 2009 Author Report Posted January 13, 2009 so perkins was sounding more like wayne shorter in the 80s and less like classic Bill, is that what youre saying? Quote
JSngry Posted January 13, 2009 Report Posted January 13, 2009 At times, yeah. At least on this record. There's another one I've heard, led by some drummer, doing all Mingus tunes, a pretty obscure album, that sounds like a Jimmy Giuffre session. Underneath it all, it's still Bill Perkins. But the guy sure wasn't afraid to consider his options, that's for sure. Quote
JSngry Posted January 13, 2009 Report Posted January 13, 2009 And by Wayne Shorter, I mean Blakey/Vee-Jay era Shorter. Real direct tone, blatant harmonic dissonances, all that. Quote
Joe Posted January 13, 2009 Report Posted January 13, 2009 At times, yeah. At least on this record. There's another one I've heard, led by some drummer, doing all Mingus tunes, a pretty obscure album, that sounds like a Jimmy Giuffre session. Underneath it all, it's still Bill Perkins. But the guy sure wasn't afraid to consider his options, that's for sure. This one? http://cdbaby.com/cd/pucillo2 Quote
JSngry Posted January 13, 2009 Report Posted January 13, 2009 At times, yeah. At least on this record. There's another one I've heard, led by some drummer, doing all Mingus tunes, a pretty obscure album, that sounds like a Jimmy Giuffre session. Underneath it all, it's still Bill Perkins. But the guy sure wasn't afraid to consider his options, that's for sure. This one? http://cdbaby.com/cd/pucillo2 Yep! Quote
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