David Perrico & Marley Taylor

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David Perrico and Marley Taylor: A new look and a new sound.

By John Katsilometes · August 20, 2010 · 3:12 PM
Long recognized as half of the high-energy resort act Zowie Bowie, Marley Taylor has branched out with a new look, a new partner and a new approach to music.

Her own music.

The famously blonde half of Zowie Bowie, the now-brunette Taylor appears with her new life and professional partner, trumpet player David Perrico, at 8:30 p.m. Sunday night at Bootlegger Bistro. Taylor reports that she's been working diligently on songwriting during the past several months. Sunday's show, to be performed at one of Las Vegas' truly cool restaurants and live-music venues, is to feature her original material. The songs are, naturally, autobiographical. One title: "You Would be Lonely Too."

The musical contribution is from the David Perrico Group, a 12-piece "bandestra" featuring the trumpet of Perrico, who plays that instrument in "Viva Elvis" at Aria and has backed Donny & Marie and Gladys Knight, among others.

The "others" include the short-lived showroom version of the Zowie Bowie stage act, which for more than a decade has been Taylor and longtime fiancé Chris Phillips. The two ended their relationship in December, during their valiant attempt at a vintage Vegas show, aptly titled, "Vintage Vegas," at Monte Carlo. Taylor took up with Perrico and began writing songs, and for a time it seemed the Zowie Bowie act might also be finished.



Incidentally, Taylor's new hair shade was crafted by noted Vegas lock-smith Michael Boychuck at Color salon at Caesars Palace. - The Las Vegas Sun-John Kats

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Brass and Lass
Zowie Bowie’s Marley Taylor teams up with Viva Elvis’ lead trumpeter to do
something entirely new
By Cindi Reed | August 26th, 2010
With brunet hair, Marley Taylor looks like Cinderella right
after the clock strikes midnight. Famous as the female half of
the outrageously blond and tanned cover duo Zowie Bowie,
Taylor is as beautiful as ever, sitting for an interview before
she goes onstage at Bootlegger Bistro with her new side
project, the David Perrico Group. However, without her
pop-star attributes, she carries the air of a just-broken
enchantment. There’s a small bit of melancholy in her
transformation, but it’s the necessary melancholy of growing
up.
“I’ve always wanted to write, record and perform my own
songs,” Taylor says. She’s written music since she was 12,
and now, at age 40, Taylor is finally pursuing that dream.
“For sure [my goal is] to do this full-time, because I’ve done
Zowie Bowie for 10 years and it’s super fun, but for me, this
is definitely where I want to head. In the direction of original
music, composition, recording.”
And she couldn’t have picked a better partner (well, other than the Zowie Bowie one—her ex-fiance,
Chris Phillips). Her new partner/love interest, David Perrico, is a musician with a capital “M.” He has
a master’s degree in composition/film-score/jazz studies from UNLV, he plays lead trumpet in 10
shows a week in Cirque du Soleil’s Viva Elvis and he co-wrote the songs with Taylor that they
perform together. (He focuses on orchestration, writing instrumentation for their diverse 12-piece
band, which includes bass clarinet, acoustic guitar, violin and more.) When not playing rich velvet on
his trumpet, he’s conducting the band behind them, the band that almost overwhelms the Bootlegger
Bistro, where they performed Aug. 22 to what looked like a full house.
“We went and looked at every major Vegas lounge,” Perrico says of the planning behind their project.
“And what we feel is missing is adult contemporary music, not smooth jazz, but that eclectic kind. ... I
think it would be great to have [our band] be in a free lounge setting. Just nice, tasty, not so much
sophisticated, but just really good quality music.” Onstage, Taylor is blissful. And the enchantment of
the blond hair is replaced with something different. Better. The joy of being who you really are and
singing songs that you wrote. Though the performance at Bootlegger feels a little more like a
showcase than a permanent gig, she and Perrico seem to already have achieved their goal: live,
original music in a city that caters to covers.
The David Perrico Group featuring Marley Taylor will perform at the Bootlegger Bistro 8:30 p.m.
Sept. 12, free, davidperrico.com. Zowie Bowie plays the Monte Carlo Aug. 27-28. They move to the
Rocks Lounge at Red Rock on Sept. 3 and perform thereafter at 11 p.m. Fridays.
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