Jazz Articles about Charlie Persip

About Charlie Persip

Album Review

Don Ellis: How Time Passes to Essence Revisited

Read "How Time Passes to Essence Revisited" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
March 24, 2025

Nelle storie del jazz Don Ellis è ricordato principalmente per l'innovativa big band che guidò per un decennio, dalla metà degli anni sessanta. Questa preziosa riedizione ci rammenta i suoi inizi di carriera, quando esplorava nuove soluzioni a partire dalla tromba: accoppia il suo debutto in quartetto (...How Time Passes...) dell'ottobre 1960 con alcuni brani di Essence, risalente al 1962. Il trombettista losangelino aveva appena compiuto 26 anni e registrava il primo album accompagnato dal pianista Jaki Byard, ...

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Sam Rivers Quintet: Zenith

Read "Zenith" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero

by Vincenzo Roggero
March 23, 2020

Probabilmente è questa l'unica data che vede all'opera questo quintetto e sicuramente è questa l'unica registrazione conosciuta. Siamo durante il tour europeo datato ottobre-novembre 1977 nel quale Sam Rivers tiene concerti a capo della Rivbea Orchestra, o suonando in quartetto, in trio, in duo e per l'appunto in quintetto, in sostanza il quartetto stabile dell'epoca con l'aggiunta di un secondo percussionista. Scelta perlomeno curiosa quella operata da Rivers, perchè Charlie Persip era noto più per l'appartenenza ai gruppi di Dizzy ...

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Sam Rivers Quintet: Zenith

by John Sharpe
January 4, 2020

Concertgoers must have been forced back in their seats by the intensity of Sam Rivers opening foray at the 1977 Berlin Jazztage Festival. After an annunciatory tenor saxophone burst, he goes for the jugular with fierce vocalized overblowing atop a churning four piece rhythm section. But if that sounds forbidding, then like the audience, listeners to this historic recording, released as the second installment of NoBusiness Records' estimable Sam Rivers Archive Project, following Emanation (2019), should be enthralled by the ...

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Interview

Charli Persip

by George Kanzler
February 12, 2009

People looking for the magic elixir, the Fountain of Youth, should stop looking and start jazz drumming. Charli Persip, who'll turn 80 in July, will soon join Roy Haynes and Chico Hamilton as fully active octogenarian jazz drummers with busy careers. Persip grew up in Newark, NJ and, after touring with Dizzy Gillespie's small group and State Department Big Band (1953-58), he became one of the most in demand drummers on jazz recordings, especially big band ones, in the late ...

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Album Review

Charli Persip & Supersound: Intrinsic Evolution

Read "Intrinsic Evolution" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
November 10, 2008

Drummer Charli Persip is a musician who can intimate that he's done it all via his rather storied jazz legacy. He's performed with legendary bop pianist, composer, and arranger Tadd Dameron amid stints with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and vocalist Billy Eckstein along with other jazz icons too numerous in scope to cite here. On the band's 2008 and fourth release overall, Intrinsic Evolution, Persip surges forward with self-assurance and is unequivocally adept with the virtues of large ensemble drumming. Persip's ...

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Megaphone

Charli Persip: The View

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2004

By Charli Persip I have been asked on numerous occasions, why do I have, as my main product, a big band. Of course the big band is not my only product, but it is my major pursuit. One of the reasons for having the big band is very simple - I like the sound of the large ensemble. The tonal colors, the harmonic blend and the strength and power of a group of horns ...