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Perry Thoorsell

Performances and/or recordings with top jazz musicians including Smith Dobson, Jessica Williams, Larry Vuckovich, Donald Bailey, Eddie Henderson, Sonny Simmons, Mark Levine, Joe Henderson, Jamie Davis, Marvin Stamm, Kurt Elling, and Tootie Heath. Live shows backing traveling headliners including Bobby Rydell, Dick Contino, Julius LaRosa, Rita Moreno, Anna Maria Alberghetti, Pete Barbutti, Jim Bailey, Jerry Vale, Diahann Carroll, and Frankie Laine. Musical Theater credits include "Stardust," "By George," "Godspell," "In the Heights," and "Camelot." Festival performances include Biamp Portland Jazz Festival, Cathedral Park Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival, San Francisco Jazz Festival, Fillmore Jazz Festival, Aarhus Jazz Festival (Denmark), and Stanford Jazz Festival.

Todd Zimberg with Michael Gotz and Perry Thoorsell: An Afternoon in Sellwood

Read "An Afternoon in Sellwood" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
February 9, 2022

Sellwood, for those who may have been wondering, is a Portland, Oregon neighborhood, the home base--more or less--of drummer Todd Zimberg and his bandmates, pianist Michael Gotz and bassist Perry Thoorsell. Based on its playing time, Zimberg's debut album as leader, An Afternoon in Sellwood, could have borne the title A Half Hour in Sellwood. Well, thirty-one minutes, to be more precise. That said, Zimberg's trio makes the most of that concise time, thanks to inspired blowing, ...