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✨Charles covered:
👉🏽 The WHAT, WHERE & WHEN of Improv
👉🏽 Melodic, Rhythmic & Sequential use of notes
👉🏽 And LOTS more!
🗣️ WRITES CHARLES:
"Get exposed to a way of looking at musical information that will enhance your improvisation by leaps and bounds!”
😍 WYNTON MARSALIS:
"Charles is the very definition of excellence in our music.
He’s the definitive master on his instrument!
He plays with exceptional harmonic accuracy and sophistication.
He performs free-flowing, melodic and thematically developed solos with unbelievable fire and an unparalleled depth of soul."
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📃 About CHARLES MCPHERSON:
After growing up in Detroit, he studied with the renowned pianist Barry Harris and started playing jazz professionally at age 19.
Charles moved from Detroit to New York in 1959 and performed with Charles Mingus from 1960 to 1972. While performing with Mingus, he collaborated frequently with Barry Harris, Lonnie Hillyer (tp), and George Coleman (ts).
He performed at concerts and festivals with his own groups, consisting of quartets, quintets to full orchestras.
Charles was featured at Lincoln Center showcasing his original compositions 15 years ago, and once again joined Wynton Marsalis and J@LC Orchestra in April 2019, honoring his 80th Birthday where they arranged and performed 7 of Charles’ iconic original compositions.
Charles has toured the U.S., Europe, Japan, Africa and South America with his own groups, as well as with jazz greats Barry Harris, Billy Eckstine, Lionel Hampton, Nat Adderley, Jay McShann, Phil Woods, Wynton Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Randy Brecker, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, and many others.
He has recorded as guest artist with Charlie Mingus, Barry Harris, Art Farmer, Kenny Drew, Toshiko Akiyoshi, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.
Charles has recorded as a leader on Prestige, Fantasy, Mainstream, Discovery, Xanadu, Arabesque, Capri and several other labels in Europe and Japan.
He was the featured alto saxophonist in the Clint Eastwood movie "Bird," a biopic about Charlie Parker and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Don Redman Lifetime Achievement Award and an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from California State University San Marcos.
Charles performed at the NEA Jazz Master’s 2019 performance during Stanley Crouch’s tribute.
Widely recognized as a prolific composer, Charles is now Resident Composer for the San Diego Ballet, where he has written three original suites for chamber music and jazz combos.
Dr. Donnie Norton compiled the entire book of Charles’ compositions for publication.
Throughout his six decades of being an integral performer of the music, Charles has not merely remained true to his Bebop origins but has expanded on them.
Stanley Crouch says in his NY Times article on Charles, "he is a singular voice who has never sacrificed the fluidity of his melody making and is held in high esteem by musicians both long seasoned and young."
Charles is a frequent guest at universities all over the world and also teaches privately.
Many of his former students have gone on to have careers of their own in jazz, and have earned National Jazz Student Awards.
Charles had the honor of being the subject of the Doctoral Dissertation by Ph.D. candidate Dr. Donnie Norton: "The Jazz Saxophone Style of Charles McPherson: An Analysis through Biographical Examination and Solo Transcription."
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