Dennis Mitcheltree Trio

Dennis Mitcheltree, saxophone; Jesse Crawford, bass; Bill McClellan, drums.

Dennis Mitcheltree’s 8th album as a leader, Seeing Red, will be released this fall on the Dengor Music label. Based in Los Angeles since 2007, he makes regular forays to the Bay Area with his working trio and quartet and has enjoyed a great reception by audiences at Mr. Tipples, the Sound Room, Chez Hanny, Meyhouse, the Dawn Club and other regional jazz spots. Here’s recent video (December 2025) of the quartet in New York City:

Dennis has performed and recorded with masters of the jazz world: Clark Terry, Billy Taylor, George Cables, Bill Holman, Bob Moses, Jim McNeely, Howard Johnson, Gary Bartz, Kenny Werner, James Williams, Don Sickler, Charli Persip, Ronnie Matthews, Pete Yellin, Richie Cole, Bill Holman, Pete Christlieb, Doug Webb, Carl Saunders, Joe La Barbera, John Clayton, Christian Jacob and Bruce Forman along with contemporaries Uri Caine, Ingrid Jensen, Johannes Wallmann, Andy Milne and David Binney. He recorded with Janelle Monáe on her 2024 Grammy nominated “Best Album of the Year”, The Age Of Pleasure.

Born and raised in Wisconsin, he picked up the oboe and saxophone at age 12. He received a scholarship from Berklee College of Music where he graduated with a Magna cum Laude degree in Jazz Performance in 1987 and moved to New York City in the same year and spent two decades building his career in New York City.

He is the Artistic Director for the American Music Group, widely known for the INFLUENCES series presented at Carnegie Hall, and an award-winning saxophonist and composer.

A former student of Joe Viola, Billy Pierce, Jim McNeely, George Garzone and Joe Lovano, Dennis is also a renowned jazz teacher and clinician of jazz improvisation, harmony, composition and saxophone/woodwinds. He teaches privately and as a guest artist/clinician/lecturer at universities and jazz education programs worldwide.

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Hear samples of Dennis Mitcheltree’s work on his YouTube channel at this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI8PLXb0o6u3HXe3P2iYqMQ