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Dennis Mitcheltree
Jazz saxophonist, composer and educator
About Me
Jazz saxophonist and composer Dennis Mitcheltree has a new release with pianist
Johannes Wallmann, “Holding Space”, on Shifting Paradigm Records. Mitcheltree is a
mainstay of the tenor saxophone, based in New York City from 1987-2007 and in Los
Angeles from 2007 to the present.
Dennis has performed and recorded with masters of the jazz world: Clark Terry, Billy
Taylor, George Cables, Bill Holman, Bob Moses, Jim McNeely, Howard Johnson, Gary
Bartz, Kenny Werner, James Williams, Don Sickler, Charli Persip, Ronnie Matthews, Pete
Yellin, Richie Cole, Bill Holman, Pete Christlieb, Doug Webb, Carl Saunders, Joe Labarbera,
John Clayton, Christian Jacob and Bruce Forman along with contemporaries Uri Caine,
Ingrid Jensen, Johannes Wallmann, Andy Milne and David Binney.
Mitcheltree was born and raised in Wisconsin, picking up the oboe and saxophone at age
12. He received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music where he graduated with a
Magna cum Laude degree in Jazz Performance in 1987. He is the Artistic Director for the
American Music Group, widely known for the INFLUENCES series presented at Carnegie
Hall, and an award-winning saxophonist and composer.
A former student of Joe Viola, Billy Pierce, Jim McNeely, George Garzone and Joe Lovano,
Dennis is also a renowned jazz teacher and clinician of jazz improvisation, harmony,
composition and saxophone/woodwinds. He teaches privately and as a guest
artist/clinician/lecturer at universities and jazz education programs worldwide.
