Frank Perowsky

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Frank Perowsky (* around 1935) is an American jazz musician ( tenor saxophone , clarinet , arrangement , composition ).

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Perowsky grew up in Des Moines , where his mother ran a dance school, and moved to New York in the mid-1950s. He studied clarinet at the Juilliard School and attended the city's jazz clubs during this time. After graduating in 1958, he played as a tenor saxophonist in the big bands of Jimmy Dorsey , Woody Herman , Lee Castle Les and Larry Elgart . After his wedding, he worked as a freelance musician in New York, played in Broadway shows, nightclubs and in concert appearances with stars such as Peggy Lee , Sarah Vaughan , Billy Eckstine and Stan Getz . Recordings were made in the 1960s by Johnny Richards ( My Fair Lady - My Way , 1964). In the following years he was part of the Big Band of Bill Watrous and the New Glenn Miller Orchestra (conducted by Larry O'Brien), the bands of Dave Stahl , Mike Longo and The NY State of the Art Jazz Ensemble, and the DMP Big Band of Dean Pratt ( Glenn Miller Project ). He also worked on recordings by Tito Rodríguez , Roland Hanna and Freddy Cole .

From 1981 he accompanied Liza Minnelli . In the 1980s, Perowsky performed with his own quintet in New York clubs. In 1989 he was on a tour of Japan with Roland Hanna. In 1998 he recorded the album Clarinet Passions, Vol. 1 with Dave Hopkins , Don Friedman , Ron McClure and his son Ben Perowsky . After an engagement at Cornelia Street Cafe , the trio album Bop on Pop was created in 2002 , with Sam Yahel and Ben Perowsky. From 2007 he led his own 17-piece big band, with whom he performed at the New York Bowery Poetry Club and the Baha'i Center. In the field of jazz he was involved in twenty recording sessions between 1964 and 2015.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ New York Magazine, August 9, 1982
  2. ↑ Terrell Kent Holmes: Ben and Frank Perowsky with Sam Yahel: Bop on Pop. All About Jazz , June 25, 2003, accessed January 6, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 6, 2018)
personal data
SURNAME Perowsky, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1935