Artist's albums
From This Moment On!
1997 · album
Siku Ya Bibi
1991 · album
Bluebird
1991 · album
Charles McPherson
2017 · album
The Journey
2015 · album
What Is Love
2010 · album
First Flight Out
2006 · album
Manhattan Nocturne
2006 · album
Live @ the Cellar
2003 · album
Live At The Five Spot
1967 · album
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Biography
A Charlie Parker disciple who brings his own lyricism to the bebop language, Charles McPherson has been a reliable figure in modern mainstream jazz for more than 35 years. He played in the Detroit jazz scene of the mid-'50s, moved to New York in 1959, and within a year was working with Charles Mingus. McPherson and his friend Lonnie Hillyer succeeded Eric Dolphy and Ted Curson as regular members of Mingus' band in 1961 and he worked with the bassist off and on up until 1972. Although he and Hillyer had a short-lived quintet in 1966, McPherson was not a full-time leader until 1972. In 1978, he moved to San Diego, which has been his home ever since and sometimes he uses his son, Chuck McPherson, on drums. Charles McPherson, who helped out on the film Bird by playing some of the parts not taken from Charlie Parker records, has led dates through the years for Prestige (1964-1969), Mainstream, Xanadu, Discovery, and Arabesque. ~ Scott Yanow, Rovi