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Bill Perkins - Little Bird & Little Boat (Liberty Records 1963)

4,606 views · Published 17 July 2014 · 5:41 · Indexed 26 October 2026

Channel: RoundMidnightTV · 2014 · Music

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"Little Bird" is a song composed/written by Dick Grove, Pete Jolly & Tommy Wolf.  "Little Boat" is a song composed/written by Roberto Menescal & Ronaldo Boscoli.

William Reese "Bill" Perkins (July 22, 1924 -- August 10, 2003) was a cool jazz saxophonist and flutist popular on the West Coast jazz scene, known primarily as a tenor saxophonist. Born in San Francisco, California, Perkins started out performing in the big bands of Woody Herman and Jerry Wald. He also worked for the Stan Kenton orchestra, which subsequently led to his entry into the cool jazz idiom. He began performing with musicians like Art Pepper and Bud Shank, to name just a few. He was also a member of The Tonight Show Band from 1970--1992. He is probably most remembered, however, for playing tenor for The Lighthouse All-Stars. When gigs became scarce in the 1960s, Perkins had a parallel career as a recording engineer.

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