Charlie Jennison

New Hampshire-based multi-instrumentalist Charlie Jennison started his jazz career in 1961 using at rotary clubs with other regional functions while even now in junior senior high school. Shifting to New Hampshire from Florida, he produced a jazz combo on the School of New Hampshire that he graduated in 1961 using a level in Music Education. Jennison provides examined with such main jazz statistics as Jerry Bergonzi and Charlie Mariano. The determining minute in Jennison’s profession emerged early in his profession when he fulfilled pianist Tom Gallant, a instructor on the Berklee College of Music and an alumnus of Woody Herman’s music group. Jennison used Gallant for a lot more than 30 years. He in addition has distributed the stage or has been around the recording studio room with such significant jazz music artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Pal DeFranco, Alan Dawson, and Marshal Royal. He recalls Gillespie confirming that it had been actually Jonah Jones, not really him, who threw the infamous spitball at Cab Calloway, which resulted in Gillespie’s tumultuous dismissal from Calloway’s music group. Jennison in addition has been on many albums including support vocalists Kathleen Kolman and Leila Percy, aswell as with the brand new Age group Do’ah and trumpet participant Clark Terry. In 1999, Jennison released his initial record for Maine’s Unseen Music label entitled Iridescence, which features Jennison’s tenor and soprano saxophone abilities. Within a quartet structure, the album’s play list is normally made up of ten Jennison originals, which operate the tempo gamut from ballads to quicker paced material. Furthermore to recording tasks and executing in local locations, Jennison currently retains the positioning of trainer of saxophone at New Hampshire’s Phillip Exeter Academy.