Observe the latest gigs posted for late this month and October 1st. Perry will do a brief tour with drummer Klaus Kugel, including three dates with the pianist Bobby Few. Perry will also go soon to Amsterdam to record a new Klezmokum CD with his old friend Burton Greene. Have you heard their new duo masterpiece, Two Voices In The Desert? Go over to Tzadik to get your copy!

Perry is about to make his annual trip to Germany. He kicks things off with a spectacular and rare appearance by the PERRY ROBINSON QUARTET (featuring pianist Christoph Adams, bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Ernst Bier), performing for FIVE NIGHTS at the Jazzclub A-Trane in Berlin!

Following the Berlin gig, Perry makes his annual trip to the Zeltmusik Festival Freiburg, where he is artist-in-residence from June 30th to July 12th. While there he will perform with the PERRY ROBINSON TRIO (with Ed Schuller and Ernst Bier). Heads up, German fans! You guys are quite lucky!

All details in the gig listing......

Summer approaches, and it's time for you to ignore the news about the demise of the CD and buy some that have Perry Robinson on them!

First, there's drummer Mike Mahaffay's new Tres Gone Sextet recording, ROBO ROBINSON! Dig this cover....



Available here.

There's also the GRAMMY-WINNING Pete Seeger At 89, with Perry as one of Pete's special guests. Available here.

And another session of the duo of Perry Robinson/Burton Greene has been released on Tzadik. Called Two Voices In The Desert, it's available here.

Finally, check out the new video of the UNI TRIO performing at Perry's book publication party in 2002. Good stuff, just below the biography.....

This isn't exactly news but it hasn't been posted here, so....
The most recent recording of Perry with Burton Greene is Klez-Edge :  Ancestors, Mindreles, Nagila Monsters, available on John Zorn's Tzadik label. See the Tzadik website.

Links to buy and/or download the five Perry Robinson Quartet/Trio CDs are now available on Perry's myspace page in his biograpy "About Perry Robinson." They are also here:

Nightmare Island

Call To The Stars

Angelology

Still Traveling

Children's Song

The Perry Robinson Trio featuring bassist Ed Schuller and drummer Ernst Bier are about to bestow a rare and precious tour on the continent, from November 8-23! Check out the eight dates in Germany and one night in Lund, Sweden in the upcoming shows list. Immediately following the tour the band will convene in Osnabrück to produce a new recording. Lucky Germans, lucky Swedes, great music to come from the Maestro!

Maestro has a gig on his birthday (he's turning 70!) at Dabora Gallery in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. More info on the gig list. But the BIG news is that he's been invited to Palermo, Italy, to take part in a major concert tribute to the late great Tony Scott, Perry's close friend, mentor and major jazz clarinetist, artist and cultural ambassador. The concert will take place on October 1st and will be filmed. Perry will be a major part of the proceedings and an interview with him will also be filmed.

Perry heard almost immediately from Randy Kaye that Perry's old friend/mentor Jimmy Giuffre passed away on April 24th. RIP Jimmy.

Perry recently recorded a duo record with pianist Burton Greene, right after their appearance at the Stone. It will be out on Tzadik later this year. Tzadik will also be releasing Klez-Edge, a stripped-down version of Burton's band Klezmokum, featuring Perry, at the end of June. Perry will be appearing with Wynne Paris's Groovananda at the Jivamukti Yoga Center on May 31 at a Benefit For Bonobos, with special guests Tony Levin (King Crimson, Peter Gabriel) and Anthony Krizan (Spin Doctors). Perry also recently recorded a duet record with his good friend percussionist Muruga Booker, which will be out at some point on Qbico (vinyl) and Amie Street (download). Their earlier recording Free Funk featuring Peter Madcat Ruth on harmonica is also available at the same websites. Another recording featuring Perry has also been released recently: drummer Jonathan Lamar Edwards' Traveler.

Maestro remains busy: he has been taking part in a very interesting recording project up in the Hudson Valley (to be revealed hopefully before very long), and he will be making his annual trip to Germany for the Freiburg Festival this summer.

Nat Hentoff writing about Anat Fort's ECM release A Long Story in Jazz Times:

Along with Schuller and Motian, yet another singular jazz voice is present: Perry Robinson on clarinet and ocarina. As Richard Cook writes in his invaluable Jazz Encyclopedia (Penguin), "Robinson is one of the very few to make a go of creating a place for the clarinet in the jazz avant-garde." Actually, whatever "avant-garde" means in the flow of fashion, Robinson plays what I call "soul music."