Charlie Persip
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Charlie Persip (born July 26, 1929) is an American jazz drummer. Born in Morristown, New Jersey as Charles Lawrence Persip, and commonly known as "Charlie," he changed his name to Charli Persip in the early 1980s.
After having performed with Tadd Dameron in 1953, Persip gained recognition for his work with Dizzy Gillespie's big band and small groups, playing drums for Gillespie through 1958. In the 1950s and 1960s, he also performed with many other notable jazz musicians, a small sampling of whom includes instrumentalists Lee Morgan, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Phil Woods, Eric Dolphy, and Archie Shepp, and vocalists Dinah Washington and Billy Eckstine, in whose band he played drums from 1966 through 1973.
In the 1970s, Persip was the main drum instructor at New York's Jazzmobile. He has also led groups of his own, including the Jazz Statesmen in 1959 and, since the 1980s, Superband, with which he has recorded several albums.
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- Feather, Leonard. The Encyclopedia of Jazz (Horizon Press, 1960)
