The great lead and jazz trumpeter Bobby Shew tells his students that “talent is a matter of breaking barriers." While trumpeter Joey Pero might have brilliantly selected and covered “Defying Gravity" from Broadway's Wicked on his breakthrough CD, Resonance (Resonance Music Group, 2009), Pero has been defying and utterly smashing performance barriers all his life. What would you expect from a man who, still in his mother's womb no less, was given the chance to “witness" and leap in response to the no-barrier trumpeting of Maynard Ferguson?
AAJ Contributor Nicholas Mondello spoke with Pero and producer/manager Charles Ressler about being mentored by Wynton Marsalis and Freddy Cole, the making of Resonance, and bringing the album to life in performance.
Check out Joey Pero: Breaking Sound Barriers at AAJ today!
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