Jimmy Halperin

Jimmy Halperin is an American saxophonist (tenor and soprano) and composer in avant-garde jazz and new improvised music.

Biography Halperin was influenced by Lennie Tristano, and he got lessons with Tristano and Sal Mosca at a young age. He did his first recordings in 1986 with the Warne Marsh Quintet (Back Home at the label CrissCross). Since 1982, Halperin worked with bassist Dominic Duval and the first joint recordings were made until 2003.

In 2003 he released the album Joy And Gravitas, also on CIMP, with interpretations of jazz standards, i.e. "A Night in Tunisia", "Love for Sale", "My Funny Valentine", "Don't Explain", "Naima" and "Round Midnight!. This was followed by the duo album Monkinus by Halperin and Duval on the label CIMP. In 2009 Halperin and Duval recorded the music of Thelonious Monk on the album Monk Dreams, released on the Lithuanian label NoBusiness Records. In June 2009 they played at the Jazzfest Villach.

Halperin has also played with pianist Andreas Schmidt, Alex Hagen 'Stringproject', and in 2007, he recorded as a duo with guitarist Joe Giglio - "Sound Scape". In 2015 the album "Snow Tiger" was released, a collaboration with Swedish guitarist Pål Nyberg, with whom he toured extensively from 2015 to 2017. In 2016 he was featured artist with the Norwegian Kristoffer Eikrem Quintet at the Moldejazz.

Discography

Solo albums 1997: Psalm (Zinnia Records), with Sal Mosca 2001: Cycle Logical (Cadence Jazz Records), with Don Messina and Bill Chattin 2003: Joy and Gravitas (CIMP), with Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen 2005: East of the Sun (Blue Jack), with Axel Hagen, Thomas Winther Andersen 2009: Changing Tranes (City Hall, NoBusiness Records), with Dominic Duval 2019: High and Outside (CIMP), with Don Messina and Bill Chattin

Collaborations With Warne Marsh Quartet & Quintet 1986: Back Home (Criss Cross Jazz)

With Dominic Duval 2005: Monkinus (CIMP) 2009: Monk Dreams (NoBusiness Records) 2010: Music Of John Coltrane (NoBusiness Records)

With Halperin-Nyberg Connection 2015 :"Snow Tiger" (Sthlm Jazz Records)

With Joe Giglio 2007: "Sound Scape"

With Kjetil Jerve and Drew Gress 2016: New York Improvisations (Dugnad Rec)

Jimmy Halperin with Pål Nyberg Trio 2017: "Live at A-trane - Berlin" (Klangverk Recordings)