Rich Perry is an American jazz tenor saxophonist from Cleveland, Ohio.

Perry attended Bowling Green State University for a year before moving to New York. He toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra in 1975 and with The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra the following year.^[1] He has also played with Chet Baker, Paul Bley, Machito, Bob Moses, Jack McDuff, Billy Hart, Eddie Gómez, Tom Harrell, and Harold Danko. He has recorded as a leader since 1993 on SteepleChase Records.

Perry is currently a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra as well as the Maria Schneider Orchestra. He is an adjunct faculty member of the William Paterson University jazz program.^[2]

Discography

As leader or co-leader

• To Start Again (SteepleChase, 1993)
• Beautiful Love (SteepleChase, 1994)
• What Is This? (SteepleChase, 1995)
• Left Alone (SteepleChase, 1997)
• RichLee! (SteepleChase, 1997) – with Lee Konitz
• Canções do Brasil (SteepleChase, 2000)
• So in Love (SteepleChase, 2000)
• Doxy (SteepleChase, 2000)
• O Grand Amor (SteepleChase, 2001)
• Hearsay (SteepleChase, 2002)
• At Eastman (SteepleChase, 2003)
• East of the Sun and West of 2nd Avenue (SteepleChase, 2004)
• You're My Everything (SteepleChase, 2005)
• Rhapsody (SteepleChase, 2006)
• At the Kitano, Vol. 1 (SteepleChase, 2006)
• E-Motion (SteepleChase, 2007)
• At the Kitano, Vol. 2 (SteepleChase, 2008)
• Gone (SteepleChase, 2010)
• At the Kitano, Vol. 3 (SteepleChase, 2010)
• Grace (SteepleChase, 2011)
• Time Was (SteepleChase, 2010)
• Nocturne (SteepleChase, 2014)
• Organique (SteepleChase, 2015)
• Mood (SteepleChase, 2016)
• Other Matters (SteepleChase, 2019)
• Everything Happens (SteepleChase, 2022)

As sideman

• Paul Bley Speechless – with Victor Lewis
• Sila Cevikce A New Abode
• John Fedchock New York Big Band Up and Running, No Nonsense, On the Edge
• Christian Finger Merge into Beauty
• Artt Frank Waltz for Sharon Stone (mja Records, 1997)
• Joe Henderson The Joe Henderson Big Band
• Fred Hersch Songs Without Words, Point in Time, Forward Motion
• Aaron Irwin Into the Light
• Clay Jenkins Matters of Time
• Steve Lampert Venus Perplexed, Music from There
• Andy LaVerne Pianissimo
• Pete Malinverni Invisible Cities
• Ron McClure Soft Hands, Dream Team, Double Triangle – with Tim Hagans, Mark Copeland, Billy Hart
• George Mraz Bottom Lines, Mraz Jazz – with Richie Beirach, Al Foster
• Jeanfrançois Prins El Gaucho – with Victor Lewis
• Rufus Reid The Gait Keeper, Live at the Kennedy Center
• Dave Scott Song for Amy, Naivete, Nonchalant
• Dave Stryker Blue to the Bone, Big Room
• Vanguard Jazz Orchestra Up from the Skies, The Way, Can I Persuade You, Lickety Split, The Thad Jones Legacy
• Gary Versace Time and Again

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