After all these years, I'm putting out a record under my own name. Better late than never!

I wrote and arranged all but one of the ten tunes and conducted the NDR Big Band this past July (07) which played against a duo recording I did with Elvin in '86. Don Alias joined us on two tunes.

Would love to hear what you think about it. The album will be released on 9 Sep 08.

Click on "Bill's Waltz," which was written for pianist Bill Evans.
SOLOS: Ingolf Burkhardt, Christof Lauer, Vladyslav Sendecki

Send your comments to: Gene@Perla.Org

NYC PRODUCTION:
Jay Henry
Gene Perla

NDR PRODUCTION:
Axel Durr
Andreas Paff
Rudy Grosser
Wolfgang Dirks

EDITING & MIXING:
Nicholas de la Motte
Gene Perla

COMPOSERS:
Gene Perla
Sammy Lerner

ARRANGERS:
Gene Perla
Bill Warfield

GENE PERLA "BILL'S WALTZ"

REEDS:
Fiete Felsch
Peter Bolte
Christof Lauer
Lutz Büchner
Frank Delle

TRUMPETS:
Thorsten Benkenstein
Ingolf Burkhardt
Claus Stötter
Reiner Winterschladen

TROMBONES:
Dan Gottshall
Klaus Heidenreich
Stefan Lottermann
Ingo Lahme

RHYTHM:
Vladyslav Sendecki
Gene Perla
Elvin Jones
Don Alias