Chip Henderson

Name:	Chip Henderson
Location:	Memphis United States 38120
Contact:	901.409.9250 Send Chip Henderson a message

Additional Info:

(From website www.chiphenderson.net)

Bio:
Chip Henderson has been regularly performing in musical settings ranging from traditional Dixieland to chamber orchestras since making Memphis his home seven years ago. In that time he has performed formally and informally with notable musicians such as Marvin Stamm, Frank Foster, Ernie Watts, Bill Mobley, James Williams, Donald Brown, Mulgrew Miller, Alvin Fielder and George Cartwright. He has also performed with many well-known Memphis area artists such as Charlie Wood, Joyce Cobb and Herman Green.

Aside from performing with various small jazz groups and big bands in the Memphis metropolitan area, he has appeared numerous times with the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta, the IRIS Chamber Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Jackson Symphony (TN), and the University of Memphis Faculty Chamber Ensemble. His ability to double on various stringed instruments has allowed Chip to work with the national touring companies of Chicago, Monty Python's Spam-a-Lot, The Lion King, and High School Musical.

He has studied privately with Charlton Johnson as well as taken part in lessons and master classes with jazz guitar greats Calvin Newborn, Attila Zoller, Peter Leitch, Freddie Bryant and Mark Elf.

Chip currently teaches jazz guitar (class and applied), jazz history, jazz theory and is the director of the University of Memphis Jazz Guitar Ensemble. Along with his teaching duties at the University of Memphis, Chip is also a freelance arranger for Hal Leonard's Jazz Guitar Division and is a regular contributor to Just Jazz Guitar Magazine.

He is a graduate of the University of Memphis with a Bachelor of Music (1997) and a Master of Music (2002) in Jazz Guitar Performance.

Published Works:

Books:
Latin Standards - Hal Leonard's Jazz Guitar Chord Melody Series (HL00699754).
Classical Themes for Guitar Ensemble - Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Ensemble Series (HL00865005).
Jazz Ballads for Jazz Guitar Ensemble - Hal Leonard's Essential Elements Guitar Ensemble Series (HL00865002).

Music:
Twisted Blues (Wes Montgomery) - arrangement for jazz guitar ensemble published by University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press.
Tear It Down (Wes Montgomery) - arrangement for jazz guitar ensemble published by University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press.

Articles/ Transcriptions/ Arrangements:
Just Jazz Guitar Magazine (No. 56, August 2008) - solo guitar arrangement for I Can't Get Started.
Just Jazz Guitar Magazine (No. 53, November 2007) - transcription and commentary of Joe Pass's solo on Days of Wine and Roses.
Just Jazz Guitar Magazine (No. 51, May 2007) - transcription, commentary and analysis of Attila Zoller's solo on Homage To O.P.

Discography:
This Is My Memphis, Memphis Tourism Foundation/ Electric Room (2008) - guitarSix Shooter Night, Ernie Vee, Hailand Music (2006) – acoustic, electric & baritone guitarIn the Steel of the Night, Al Vescovo, Faultline Records (2005) - acoustic guitarThe Memphis Jazz Box, Various Artists, Ice House Records (2004) - acoustic guitarSwing-opoly, The New Memphis Hepcats, (2003) – acoustic guitar & tenor banjo90 Years of Making Music in Memphis, University of Memphis Jazz Faculty, University of Memphis Scheidt School of Music (2003) – tenor banjoLive At The Hi – Tone, The New Memphis Hepcats, Nu-Hafi Records (1999) – electric guitar

Additional Specialisms:

Orchestral Playing, Session Work, Solo Performance, Contemporary Music, Jazz, Improvisation

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