Biography
Bill Perkins
Real name: William Reese Perkins
Effective period / Period of releases: 1955 - 2000
American jazz saxophonist (tenor, baritone), born 22 July 1924 in San Francisco, California, USA, died 9 August 2003 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.Played with Jerry Wald 1950-1951, Woody Herman 1951-1953, Stan Kenton 1953-1954, again with Herman 1954; in the 1960s worked in studios (also as engineer), 1974-1977 in Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band.