Charles McPherson

MatchCharles McPherson
76%Leo Parker
58%Harry Allen
56%Stan Hope
50%Ravi Coltrane
44%Brew Moore
40%Bob Berg
34%Arthur Blythe
34%Eric Reed
29%Lisa Hilton

Biography

24 July 1939, Joplin, Missouri, USA. Often dismissed as a Charlie Parker copyist, McPherson is in fact more than a simple revivalist. While the style in which he plays, bebop, is now outmoded, it is one with which he grew up, and he plays it with fire and conviction. His family moved to Detroit when he was aged nine, and it was at high school, a few years later, that he started playing trumpet and flügelhorn. McPherson took up alto saxophone in his early teens (although he had wanted to... Read more