Clarinetist Perry Robinson to Appear in LA

From the Glendale News Press:

Jazz has always had its share of mavericks, iconoclasts and will-o’-the-wisps. These outliers have continually spiked the music’s punch with their unique musical visions. New York-based clarinet virtuoso Perry Robinson has been all three, often at the same time. Though he’s gone his own stylistic way, he’s been able to comfortably insinuate himself in any number of settings on the edge of the jazz margins. Robinson has appeared in SoCal before — usually in the company of pianist Darius Brubeck’s Two Generations of Brubeck band of the 1970s. But Sunday’s recital at Alex Cline’s Open Gate Theatre series in Eagle Rock marks the first local date where the 76-year-old clarinetist works under his own name. It’s a much-anticipated event.