Roland Perrin – Cambridge Jazz Co-op

Many thanks to Roland Perrin for an enjoyable session in which we covered:

“Descarga Ardendo” by Roland Perrin
“Carioquinha” By Roland Perrin

The session started with a great composition penned by Roland “Descarga Ardendo” (Burning Discharge?) which had written sections interspersed with open ended ones of improvisation performed over a great groove that alternated between Csus7 and C7. Everyone got a good bit of soloing over this one.

The second Roland Perrin composition “Carioquinha” was a lot trickier with a non-stop stream of notes testing the sight reading skills of the front-line (which seemed to cope admirably).

Thanks again to Roland for bringing along two greatly enjoyable compositions and educating us in the way of the clave.

This Saturday we had Roland Perrin tutoring us in enjoyable session were we covered:

“Celebration Song”
“Child’s Play” by Roland Perrin
“Pare Cochero” by Marcelino Guerra

Roland’s intention was to pretend we had a gig for which we had five pieces of new music to rehearse; in the end we only managed the three above.

We opened with “Celebration Song”.

“Pare Cochero” was an enjoyable salsa for which parts were provided.

“Child’s Play” was penned by Roland himself and had a township groove with a couple of simple repeating chord sequences.

All the above some provided us with challenges of slightly unusual chord sequences or rhythms or forms hence us only being able to get through three of the fives songs for the imaginary gig.

Thanks again to Roland for an entertaining session.

March 15, 2014: Roland Perrin

March 30, 2013: Roland Perrin