The New York Times
Feb 18, 2007

Playlist

By BEN RATLIFF

Sacha Perry / Not Brand X

The second album with this New York based jazz pianist serving as a
bandleader, "Not Brand X" (Smalls Records) is heavily Bud Powell-inspired bop classicism done well, without the smoothing-out process that usually happens to pianists along the way. Mr. Perry's solo phrases are seriously hustling, bunched up and springy, and the other members of his trio, the bassist Ari Roland and the drummer Phil Stewart, sound wired to him.