Ivo Perelman
Ivo Perelman ( born January 12, 1961 in São Paulo) is a Brazilian jazz musician (tenor saxophone, flute, composition) and painter.
Life
Perelman was a child prodigy on the guitar since the age of nine classical concerts. He learned as more Instruments Piano, cello, trombone and clarinet, but then studied architecture. Only after a multi-year orientation stage on which he traveled through Canada, Israel, Italy and the U.S., he took in Los Angeles to study music, where he focused on the flute. On the West Coast, he became a partner of pop musicians. On his debut album " Ivo " (ITM Records 1989) he played with Airto Moreira, Flora Purim, Eliane Elias, John Patitucci, Don Preston and Peter Erskine.
He also took with Paul Bley, Don Pullen, Fred Hopkins and Andrew Cyrille ( "Children of ibeji ", Enja 1992), Joanne Brackeen, Mark Helias and Billy Hart ( "Man of the Forest", GM Recordings 1994) on. He has also collaborated with Mino Cinelu, Nana Vasconcelos, Reggie Workman, Dominic Duval, Paul Rogers, William Parker, Rashied Ali, Louis Sclavis and Elton Dean. His hymn-like ecstasy on the tenor saxophone is somewhat reminiscent of Gato Barbieri.
Since the mid- 1990s, he is also active as a visual artist. He has exhibited internationally; his images can be found in Miniature Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Amsterdam as well as at the Brooklyn Jewish Arts in New York City.