Charlie Persip
Charli Persip (born July 26, 1929) is an American jazz drummer. Born in Morristown, New Jersey, as Charles Lawrence Persip, and formerly known as Charlie Persip, he changed the spelling of his name to Charli in the early 1980s.[1]
Biography
Persip attended West Side High School in Newark, preferring it over Newark Arts High School because he wanted to join the former's football team.[2] He later studied drums with Al Germansky in Newark, New Jersey.[3] After playing with Tadd Dameron in 1953, he gained recognition as a jazz drummer as he toured and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie's big and small bands between 1953 and 1958.[1] He then joined Harry "Sweets" Edison's quintet and later the Harry James Orchestra before forming his own group, the Jazz Statesmen, with Roland Alexander, Freddie Hubbard, and Ron Carter in 1960. Around this time, Persip also recorded with several other formidable jazz musicians, including Lee Morgan, Dinah Washington, Melba Liston, Kenny Dorham, Zoot Sims, Red Garland, Gil Evans, Don Ellis, Eric Dolphy, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Gene Ammons. Persip was also the drummer on the legendary "Eternal Triangle" recording, Sonny Side Up (Verve Records), featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. From 1960 to 1973 he toured as a drummer and conductor with Billy Eckstine.
Along with his performing activities, Persip has earned a reputation as an educator. Since 1974, he has been instructor of drums and music for Jazzmobile, Inc. in New York. He is currently (2008) Associate Professor at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan.
Persip also currently leads Supersound, his jazz big band that was started in the mid-1980s as Superband.
Supersound’s first album was recorded on the Stash label, and was titled Charli Persip and Superband. The group’s second album, Superband II, and third album, No Dummies Allowed, were recorded on the Soul Note label. Their fourth album is Intrinsic Evolution.
Discography
As leader
As sideman
With Joe Albany
- Portrait of an Artist (Elektra/Musicia, 1982)
With Bill Barron
- West Side Story Bossa Nova (Dauntless, 1963)
With Bob Brookmeyer
- Stretching Out (United Artists, 1958) with Zoot Sims
- Portrait of the Artist (Atlantic, 1960)
- Jazz Is a Kick (Mercury, 1960)
With Ron Carter
With Jimmy Cleveland
- Cleveland Style (EmArcy, 1958)
With Al Cohn
- Son of Drum Suite (RCA Victor, 1960)
- With Harry Edison
- The Swinger (Verve, 1958)
- Mr. Swing (Verve, 1958 [1960])
- Harry Edison Swings Buck Clayton (Verve, 1958) with Buck Clayton
With Don Ellis
- How Time Passes (Candid, 1960)
- New Ideas (New Jazz, 1961)
With Buddy Emmons
- Steel Guitar Jazz (Mercury, 1964)
With Art Farmer
- The Aztec Suite (United Artists, 1959)
- Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (Mercury, 1962)
With Curtis Fuller
- The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy, 1959)
With Dizzy Gillespie
- Afro (Norgran, 1954)
- Dizzy and Strings (Norgran, 1954)
- Jazz Recital (Norgran, 1955)
- World Statesman (Norgran, 1956)
- Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957)
- Birks' Works (Verve, 1957)
- Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (Verve, 1957)
- Duets (Verve, 1957) - with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
- The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (Verve, 1957)
- Sonny Side Up (Verve, 1957) – with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
- A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Verve, 1960)
- Perceptions (Verve, 1961)
With Benny Golson
- Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)
- Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961) - also released as Just Jazz!
With Slide Hampton
- Slide Hampton and His Horn of Plenty (Strand, 1959)
With Craig Harris
- Black Bone (Soul Note, 1983)
With Milt Jackson
- For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
- With Budd Johnson
- Let's Swing! (Swingville, 1960)
With Etta Jones
- So Warm (Prestige, 1961)
With Irene Kral
- SteveIreneo! (United Artists, 1959)
With Melba Liston
- Melba Liston and Her 'Bones (MetroJazz, 1958)
With Pat Martino
- Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) (Prestige, 1968)
With Hal McKusick
- Triple Exposure (Prestige, 1957)
With Blue Mitchell
- Smooth as the Wind (Riverside, 1961)
With Hank Mobley
- Peckin' Time (Blue Note, 1958)
With Lee Morgan
- Lee Morgan Sextet (Blue Note, 1957)
- Dizzy Atmosphere (Specialty, 1957) with Al Grey and Billy Mitchell
- Lee Morgan Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957)
- Straight Ahead (Atlantic, 1961)
- Fathead Comes On (Atlantic, 1962)
With Joe Newman
- Soft Swingin' Jazz (Coral, 1957)
- Joe Newman with Woodwinds (Roulette, 1958)
With Pony Poindexter
- Pony's Express (Epic, 1962)
With Jerome Richardson
- Midnight Oil (New Jazz, 1959)
- Roamin' with Richardson (New Jazz, 1959)
With Sonny Stitt
- The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (Roost, 1958)
- A Little Bit of Stitt (Roost, 1959)
- Soul Summit (Prestige, 1962) – with Gene Ammons and Jack McDuff
With Clark Terry
- Everything's Mellow (Moodsville, 1961)
With Mal Waldron
- The Quest (New Jazz, 1961)
With Randy Weston
- Little Niles (United Artists, 1958)
- Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
- Highlife (Colpix, 1963)
With Kai Winding
- Dance to the City Beat (Columbia, 1959)
With Phil Woods
- The Young Bloods (Prestige, 1956) – with Donald Byrd
With Leo Wright
- Blues Shout (Atlantic, 1960)
References
- 1 2 Yanow, Scott. "Charlie Persip: Biography". Allmusic. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ↑ Jazz, All About. "Charli Persip". www.allaboutjazz.com. Retrieved 2017-01-28.
- ↑ http://germansky.org/al/articles/1972%20Al%20Germansky%20Recalls%2025%20Years%20As%20Drum%20Instructor.jpg