Charlie Persip

Charli Persip (born July 26, 1929) is an American jazz drummer. Born in Morristown, New Jersey as Charles Lawrence Persip, and formerly known as Charlie Persip, he changed his name to Charli Persip in the early 1980s.

Biography
After playing with Tadd Dameron in 1953, Persip gained recognition as a jazz drummer as he toured and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie's big and small bands between 1953 and 1958. He then joined Harry "Sweets" Edison's quintet and later the Harry James Orchestra before forming his own group, the Jazz Statesmen, with Roland Alexander, Freddie Hubbard, and Ron Carter in 1960. Around this time, Persip also recorded with several other formidable jazz musicians, including Lee Morgan, Dinah Washington, Melba Liston, Kenny Dorham, Zoot Sims, Red Garland, Gil Evans, Don Ellis, Eric Dolphy, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Gene Ammons. Persip was also the drummer on the legendary "Eternal Triangle" recording, Sonny Side Up (Verve Records), featuring Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. From 1960 to 1973 he toured as a drummer and conductor with Billy Eckstine.

Along with his performing activities, Persip has earned a reputation as an educator. Since 1974, he has been instructor of drums and music for Jazzmobile, Inc. in New York. He is currently (2008) Associate Professor at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan.

Persip also currently leads Supersound, his jazz big band that was started in the mid-1980s as Superband.

Supersound’s first album was recorded on the Stash label, and was titled Charli Persip and Superband. The group’s second album, Superband 11, and third album, No Dummies Allowed, were recorded on the Soul Note label. Their fourth album is Intrinsic Evolution.

As leader

 * 1960 Charles Persip and the Jazz Statesmen (Bethlehem)
 * 1984 In Case You Missed It (Soul Note)
 * 1987 No Dummies Allowed (Soul Note)
 * 2008 Intrinsic Evolution (CDBY)

As sideman
With Don Ellis With Art Farmer With Curtis Fuller With Dizzy Gillespie With Benny Golson With Craig Harris With Milt Jackson With Etta Jones With Pat Martino With Hal McKusick With Blue Mitchell With Lee Morgan With Sonny Stitt With Mal Waldron With Randy Weston With Phil Woods
 * How Time Passes (Candid, 1960)
 * New Ideas (New Jazz, 1961)
 * The Aztec Suite (United Artists, 1959)
 * Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra (Mercury, 1962)
 * Two Bones (Blue Note, 1958)
 * The Curtis Fuller Jazztet (Savoy, 1959)
 * Afro (Norgran, 1954)
 * Dizzy and Strings (Norgran, 1954)
 * Jazz Recital (Norgran, 1955)
 * World Statesman (Norgran, 1956)
 * Dizzy in Greece (Verve, 1957)
 * Birks' Works (Verve, 1957)
 * Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (Verve, 1957)
 * Duets (Verve, 1957) - with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
 * The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (Verve, 1957)
 * Sonny Side Up (Verve, 1957) - with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt
 * A Portrait of Duke Ellington (Verve, 1960)
 * Perceptions (Verve, 1961)
 * Benny Golson's New York Scene (Contemporary, 1957)
 * Pop + Jazz = Swing (Audio Fidelity, 1961) - also released as Just Jazz!
 * Black Bone (Soul Note, 1983)
 * For Someone I Love (Riverside, 1963)
 * So Warm (Prestige, 1961)
 * Baiyina (The Clear Evidence) (Prestige, 1968)
 * Triple Exposure (Prestige, 1957)
 * Smooth as the Wind (Riverside, 1961)
 * Lee Morgan Sextet (Blue Note, 1957)
 * Lee Morgan Vol. 3 (Blue Note, 1957)
 * The Saxophones of Sonny Stitt (Roost, 1958)
 * A Little Bit of Stitt (Roost, 1959)
 * Soul Summit (Prestige, 1962) - with Gene Ammons and Jack McDuff
 * The Quest (New Jazz, 1961)
 * Little Niles (United Artists, 1958)
 * Uhuru Afrika (Roulette, 1960)
 * Highlife (Colpix, 1963)
 * The Young Bloods (Prestige, 1956) - with Donald Byrd