Jerry Dodgion

Jerry Dawson Dodgion ( born August 29, 1932 in Richmond / California) is an American jazz saxophonist.

Dodgion gained his first musical experiences in the early 1950s. In the bands of Rudy Salvini, John Coppola / Chuck Travis and Gerald Wilson and worked with the quartet of Vernon Alley, which he accompanied Billie Holiday 1955 He then belonged to the band of Benny Carter and from 1958 to 1961 the quintet of Red Norvo, Frank Sinatra accompanied on some tours and 1962 to see Benny Goodman on his tour of the Soviet Union, in the documentary Jazz for the Russians - To Russia with Jazz ( 2011). From 1965 to 1979 he was a member of the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, he also worked with Oliver Nelson, Herbie Hancock, Duke Pearson, the Count Basie Orchestra, Marian McPartland and Charles Mingus (Let My Children Hear Music ). In the late 1980s he performed with Dizzy Gillespie from 1992 to 2002 he was a member of the The Carnegie Hall Jazz Band under Jon Faddis.

After countless recordings as a sideman he took in 2004 with his own band, The Joy of Sax ( with saxophonist Frank Wess, Brad Leali, Dan Block and Jay Brandford, pianist Mike LeDonne, bassist Dennis Irwin and drummer Joe Farnsworth ), his first album as a bandleader Jerry Dodgion and The Joy of Sax one.

Jerry Dodgion was twenty years with the drummer Dottie Dodgion (* 1929) married.

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