Charles McPherson

In 2020, the JazzTimes magazine readers' poll named McPherson Artist of the Year, and also selected his album Jazz Dance Suites as Best New Release.

• Name — Charles McPherson • Born — 24 July 1939 • Birthplace — Joplin, Missouri, U.S. • Genre — Jazz • Occupation — Musician • Instrument — Alto saxophone • Years Active — 1960–present • Label — Prestige, Mainstream, Xanadu, Arabesque • Website — charlesmcpherson.com/

• Bebop Revisited! (Prestige, 1965) • Con Alma! (Prestige, 1965) • The Quintet/Live! (Prestige, 1967) • From This Moment On! (Prestige, 1968) • Horizons (Prestige, 1969) • McPherson's Mood (Prestige, 1969) • Charles McPherson (Mainstream, 1971) • Siku Ya Bibi (Day of the Lady) (Mainstream, 1972) • Today's Man (Mainstream, 1973) • Beautiful! (Xanadu, 1975) • Live in Tokyo (Xanadu, 1976) • New Horizons (Xanadu, 1978) • Free Bop! (Xanadu, 1979) • The Prophet (Discovery, 1983) • Follow the Bouncing Ball (Discovery, 1989) • Illusions in Blue (Chazz Jazz, 1990) • First Flight Out (Arabesque, 1994) • Come Play With Me (Arabesque, 1995) • Live at Vartan Jazz (Vartan, 1997) • Manhattan Nocturne (Arabesque, 1998) • But Beautiful (Venus, 2004) • Charles McPherson with Strings (Clarion, 2005) • The Journey (Capri Records, 2015) • Jazz Dance Suites (Chazz Mack, 2020) • Reverence (Smoke Sessions, 2024)

With Barry Harris • Newer Than New (Riverside, 1961) • Bull's Eye! (Prestige, 1968) • Stay Right with It (Milestone, 1978) • Tokyo 1976 (Xanadu, 1980) With Charles Mingus • Mingus (Candid, 1961) • Mingus at Monterey (Jazz Workshop, 1965) • Music Written for Monterey 1965 (Jazz Workshop, 1966) • My Favorite Quintet (Fantasy, 1964) • Let My Children Hear Music (Columbia, 1972) • Charles Mingus and Friends in Concert (Columbia, 1973) • Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Atlantic, 1974) • The Complete Town Hall Concert (United Artists, 1983) • The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus (Mosaic, 1985) • Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife (Columbia, 1988) • Charles Mingus Sextet Paris, TNP October 28th 1970 (Ulysse Musique, 1988) • Live in Chateauvallon, 1972 (France's Concert, 1989) • Charles Mingus in Paris: The Complete America Session (Sunnyside, 2007) • Pithycanthropus Erectus (America, 1971) • Reincarnation of a Lovebird (Prestige, 1974) • Something Like a Bird (Atlantic, 1980) With others • Pepper Adams, Pepper Adams Plays the Compositions of Charlie Mingus (Workshop Jazz, 1964) • Toshiko Akiyoshi, Just Be Bop (Discomate [Japan], 1980) • Ray Appleton, Killer Ray Rides Again (Sharp Nine, 1996) • Jeannie & Jimmy Cheatham, Sweet Baby Blues (Concord Jazz, 1985) • Kenny Drew, For Sure! (Xanadu, 1981) • Clint Eastwood, Eastwood After Hours: Live at Carnegie Hall (Warner Bros., 1997) • Art Farmer, The Many Faces of Art Farmer (Scepter, 1964) • Lionel Hampton, At Newport '78 (Timeless, 1980) • Eddie Jefferson, Come Along with Me (Prestige, 1969) • Eddie Jefferson, There I Go Again (Prestige, 1980) • LaMont Johnson, New York Exile (Masterscores, 1980) • Bobby Jones, Arrival of Bobby Jones (Cobblestone, 1972) • Sam Jones, Cello Again (Xanadu, 1976) • Dave Pike, Bluebird (Timeless, 1989) • Jimmy Raney, The Complete Jimmy Raney in Tokyo (Xanadu, 1988) • Red Rodney, Bird Lives! (Muse, 1974) • Sonny Stitt & Don Patterson, Sonny Stitt/Don Patterson Vol. 2 (Prestige, 1998) • Charles Tolliver, Impact (Strata-East, 1976) • Charlie Parker, Bird (CBS, 1988) • Don Patterson, Boppin' & Burnin (Prestige, 1968) • Don Patterson, Funk You! (Prestige, 1968) • Larry Vuckovich, City Sounds, Village Voices (Palo Alto, 1982) • Larry Vuckovich, Blues for Red (Hothouse, 1985) • Dee Dee Bridgewater, Prelude to a Kiss: The Duke Ellington Album (Phillips, 1996)

Charles McPherson is recorded as composer, saxophonist and musician.