Danny Perri

Daniel "Danny" Perri (* around 1920, † after 1957) was a Canadian jazz and studio musician ( guitar ).

Live and act

Perri, who comes from Canada, began his musical career in London, where recordings with Don Barrigo, the Eric Siday / Jack Simpson Quartet and the Barrie Stanton Quintet were made in 1938. From 1940 he worked in the New York jazz scene, including with Jack Teagarden and His Orchestra and 1940-42 with Jan Savitt and His Top Hatters. In 1946 he accompanied the singers Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in Bob Haggart's orchestra . He also appeared on Fitzgerald's song "That's My Desire", which hit # 3 on the Race Records charts in 1947 . He also worked during this time with Russ Case , Billy Butterfield , Will Bradley and Lee Wiley , Billie Holiday & Bob Haggart ("There Is No Greater Love"), Lil Green , Pat Flowers , Anita O'Day , Big John Greer , Claude Thornhill , Teresa Brewer and Lucky Millinder .

In the 1950s he mainly worked as a session musician, still with musicians like Buddy Weed , Bobby Hackett , Neal Hefti , Artie Shaw’s Gramercy Five , The Delta Rhythm Boys , Ray Anthony , Buddy Morrow , King Curtis , Yank Lawson and Cy Cokenan . The discographer Tom Lord lists his participation in 115 recording sessions between 1938 and 1957. As a studio musician, he also played with The Ravens , Danny Houston ("Hackin 'Around", 1957) and on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade show .

^ ^A ^b Steve Jordan , Tom Scanlan: Rhythm Man: Fifty Years in Jazz . Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 1993, p. 13
↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed June 17, 2019)
↑ Cf. Galen Gart: First Pressings: The History of Rhythm and Blues: 1950 Big Nickel Publications, 1993
↑ RCA Victor 47-6927

personal data
SURNAME	Perri, Danny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Perri, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian jazz musician (guitar)
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1920
DATE OF DEATH	after 1957