Charlie Persip

Charles Lawrence Persip ( born July 26, 1929 in Morristown, New Jersey) is an American jazz drummer.

Life and work

Persip took lessons from Pearl Brackett, played in New Jersey with Billy Ford and studied at the Juilliard School later. In Atlantic City and New York City, he played with Tadd Dameron, Clifford Brown and Benny Golson and in the big bands of Dizzy Gillespie and Harry James. Between 1953 and 1958 he worked for Dizzy Gillespie, with whom he went on tour through Europe, the Middle East and South America, but also for Hal McKusick. Then he played with Zoot Sims, Phil Woods, Harry Edison (1958 /59), Harry James, Quincy Jones, Hank Mobley, George Russell, Dinah Washington, Don Ellis and Gil Evans, but since 1959 also had his own band, the Jazz Statesmen. He played one of her own albums with Freddie Hubbard and Ron Carter.

Increasingly Persip worked as a drum teacher and director of clinics, but also worked with Cannonball Adderley, Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Mary Lou Williams and Gene Ammons. Between 1966 and 1973 he was musical director of the band of Billy Eckstine, then worked for the New York Jazz Repertory Company. In 1980 he founded a band called Super Big Band. He was also involved in recordings of Curtis Fuller, Big Joe Turner, Jerome Richardson, Joe Albany, Ray Charles, Mal Waldron, Randy Weston, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell.

Persip, who teaches at New York New School was 1987 out the textbook " How Not To Play Drums ". His interest as a drummer is particularly directed to transfer the hard bop feeling of small combos to big band context.

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Sources and links

• Martin Kunzler, Jazz Encyclopedia Vol 2 ISBN 3-499-16513-9
• Morton, Richard & Cook, Brian: The Penguin Guide To Jazz On CD, Sixth Edition, London, Penguin, 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6
• Persip about his interests ( german)
• Drummerworld about Persip

• Jazz drummer
• Music teacher
• American musician
• Born in 1929
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