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Oral history interview with Charlie Persip

Title
  1. Oral history interview with Charlie Persip / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Warren Smith.
Published by
  1. New York : Schomburg Center in Research in Black Culture, 1994.
Author
  1. Persip, Charlie

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Additional authors
  1. Murray, James Briggs
  2. Smith, Warren, 1934-
  3. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
  4. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.
Description
  1. 2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. The oral history interview with Charlie Persip begins with his childhood and youth in Morristown, New Jersey and Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He graduated high school at 15 and began playing drums professionally at the age of 16 in Newark, New Jersey. As an aspiring jazz musician he would go to jazz clubs in New Jersey and New York. His first early professional influence was touring with the Billy Ford band playing rhythm and blues throughout the segregated South. Although he was playing with rhythm and blues bands at this early stage in career he was also exposed to Bebop. During breaks from touring he would form local bands to play Bebop. He was playing in a club in Newark where comedian Red Foxx was the emcee. He migrated to clubs in New York city and was hired by Tadd Dameron to play in his band. Eventually he was noticed by Dizzy Gillespie who asked him to join his band. After playing with Dizzy Gillespie's big band and quintet he played with various musicians and formed his own band, the Jazz Statesmen. He also began teaching. In the 1970s he formed Supersound, a jazz big band, that eventually became Superband. The interview ends with Persip giving a brief demonstration of drum rhythms and techniques (Disc 2).
Subject
  1. Interviews
  2. Persip, Charlie > Childhood and youth
  3. Foxx, Redd, 1922-1991 > Influence
  4. Persip, Charlie > Interviews
  5. Drum > Methods
  6. Gillespie, Dizzy, 1917-1993 > Influence
  7. Percussion music (Jazz)
  8. Oral histories
  9. United States > Race relations
  10. African American musicians > Interviews
  11. Percussionists > United States > Interviews
  12. Ford, Billy > Influence
  13. Bop (Music)
  14. Nonfiction films
  15. Drum music
  16. Drummers (Musicians) > United States > Interviews
  17. Armstrong, Louis, 1901-1971 > Influence
  18. Johnson, Clarence > Influence
  19. Jazz musicians > United States > Interviews
  20. Dameron, Tadd, 1917-1965 > Influence
Genre/Form
  1. Nonfiction films.
  2. Interviews.
  3. Oral histories.
Call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1133
Credits (note)
  1. Produced and directed by James Briggs Murray.
Funding (note)
  1. The Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project was funded by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.
Terms of use (note)
  1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.
Biography (note)
  1. Charlie Persip, born July 26, 1929, in Morristown, New Jersey, is an American jazz drummer.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of: Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.
Author
  1. Persip, Charlie, interviewee.
Title
  1. Oral history interview with Charlie Persip / Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project ; interview conducted by Warren Smith.
Production
  1. New York : Schomburg Center in Research in Black Culture, 1994.
Country of producing entity
  1. United States.
Type of content
  1. two-dimensional moving image
Type of medium
  1. video
Type of carrier
  1. videodisc
Digital file characteristics
  1. video file DVD
Credits
  1. Produced and directed by James Briggs Murray.
Performer
  1. Interviewer, Warren Smith.
Event
  1. Recorded July 13, 1994 Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
Terms of use
  1. Permission required to cite, quote and reproduce; contact repository for information.
Funding
  1. The Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project was funded by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.
Biography
  1. Charlie Persip, born July 26, 1929, in Morristown, New Jersey, is an American jazz drummer.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of: Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.
Connect to:
  1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound
Added author
  1. Murray, James Briggs, director.
  2. Murray, James Briggs, producer.
  3. Persip, Charlie, performer.
  4. Smith, Warren, 1934- interviewer.
  5. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
  6. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project.
Research call number
  1. Sc Visual DVD-1133
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