Perry Malcolm Jarrell

Music is literally in Perry’s DNA, and in his upbringing. His father Mac played piano and his father George played several instruments as a blind music teacher. He learned to jam at an early age with his brother-in-law, professional musician Lucky Floyd, who showed him how to play along with music he was writing. (Lucky was lead singer and drummer for the west Texas hit recording and touring band, The Sparkles).
Perry learned his piano-playing chops from listening to rock keyboard icons such as Billy Joel, Nicky Hopkins, Chuck Leavell, Keith Emerson, Rick Wakeman, Jon Lord, and Jimmy Smith. Perry played in various garage bands and while in college at Texas Tech, he met and played with several exceptional musicians, including Donny Green, Bob Tupper, and Murry Woods.
Perry continued honing his chops, via a 12 year run playing cover classic rocks songs in northwest Houston in the band DNA. He also played keyboards for all five albums published by Murry Woods’ self-named Texas Blues Rock band out of Austin. He also played and sang on two demo albums in Austin, TX used to promote original country songs in Nashville.
Lately, Perry lives in the country where he writes, produces, records, and engineers music in his home studio. His latest published solo albums are ’Tres Pierre’, ‘Dumaflache’ and ‘im gi at on’. Perry also writes, produces and engineers albums with his recording buddies Donny, Bob, and Murry; known as ‘Fiddy 8’ (five albums published so far).