Jimmy Halperin

b. 1958, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Energetic on the brand new York jazz picture through the 70s, Halperin researched with Lennie Tristano and after Tristano’s loss of life with another pianist-teacher, Sal Mosca. Within the middle-80s, he was an associate of saxophonist Warne Marsh’s quintet, alongside pianist Barry Harris, bass participant David Williams and drummer Albert ‘Tootie’ Heath, documenting 1986’s BACK. An extended spell without documenting ended having a duo arranged with Mosca, Psalm, in 1997. The next year Halperin is at Norway where he documented with bass participant Thomas Winther Andersen (FALL INTO LINE). It had been not before early 00s, nevertheless, and a link with Cadence Jazz Information/Innovative Improvised Music Tasks that Halperin started to have the respect, which for many years he offers richly deserved. Coolly objective, amazing in its intricacy and persuasive through its undercurrent of restrained pressure, Halperin’s are performer and composer needs and rewards attention. Although the period spent with Tristano offers left a enduring impression on Halperin, his creative advancement and integrity possess guaranteed that he offers taken his personal artistic route in modern jazz. Among additional music artists with whom Halperin spent some time working and documented are alto saxophonist Richard Tabnik, bass players Sonny Dallas, Don Messina and Dominic Duval, and drummers John McKutcheon, Expenses Chattin and Jay Rosen.