Ivo Perelman

Ivo Perelman is a Brazilian free jazz tenor saxophonist, born in São Paulo in 1961 and based in New York. After trying several instruments as a young man he settled on the tenor saxophone. He is known for a large body of freely improvised recordings, many of them with the pianist Matthew Shipp. Ivo Perelman moved to Los Angeles and then to New York after his debut album Ivo (1989), which included Airto Moreira and Peter Erskine. He founded his own label, Ibeji, and has recorded for Enja, Cadence, Leo Records, Clean Feed and ESP-Disk.