Jack Perry-Cockings is a saxophonist and composer based in London & Hastings. Jack has been fortunate to have had some great music teachers from a young age and gained a first from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama in 2014. He later went on to complete a Masters degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

Jack leads his own quintet, Teraanga. The band was founded by Jack in 2021. It was at this time Jack received the prestigious DYCP award from Arts Council England. The award kick started Jack’s vision to compose a new body of work that fuses elements of his background in Jazz with his love for groove based music that he’d encountered travelling across Africa In 2019. Whilst working onboard a cruise ship, Jack was fortunate enough to be exposed to a plethora of enriching music from countries the ship docked at along the west coast of Africa. It was the hypnotic grooves of Senegalese, Mbalax music that particularly captivated Jack - leading him to develop a new body of work that holds Senegalese music firmly rooted as the rhythmic foundation of Teraanga’s heart.

Alongside Teraanga, Jack co-runs the 9 piece Jazz orchestra, Soaphouse Social Club and the swing band, Hot Shoes. Several highlights of the past few years have included performing at Ronnie Scotts, the Barbican, Brecon Jazz Festival, the Vortex, Green note Jazz club and Langnau Jazz Nights festival in Switzerland to name a few.

Jack has had the privilege to work as the Musical Director on several cruise contracts on two ships with the cruise liner company Saga.

As well as performing on Saxophone, Jack is an accomplished Flautist and Clarinettist. Jack currently teaches woodwinds and piano at a private school in South West London and for Kent Music.