Ray Perry

Swing jazz violin and alto saxophone player, born February 25, 1915 in Boston (USA), died autumn 1950 in New York (USA). Ray Perry first studied violin, at the age of twenty taking up the saxophone. As a violinist, he was much influenced by Stuff Smith, and was the one of the first to use amplified violin in the 1940s. He played with Clarence "Chic" Carter (1937-1939), Blanche Calloway (1940) and Lionel Hampton (1940 to 1943). Brother of drummer Bay Perry and baritone saxophonist Joe Perry.