Jerry Dodgion


Jerry Dodgion is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist.
Dodgion was born in Richmond, California. He played alto sax in middle school and began working locally in the San Francisco area in the 1950s. He played in bands with Rudy Salvini, John Coppola/Chuck Travis and Gerald Wilson and worked with the Vernon Alley Quartet, who accompanied Billie Holiday in 1955. He played with Gerald Wilson from 1953 to 1955, Benny Carter in the 1950s, Red Norvo from 1958 to 1961, Benny Goodman, Oliver Nelson, Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, Herbie Hancock, Duke Pearson, Blue Mitchell, Count Basie, and Marian McPartland. Dodgion was married to drummer Dottie Dodgion for 20 years.
Dodgion had a long career as a sideman, recording up to 2004 only two dates as leader or co-leader: two tracks in 1955 for Fantasy Records with Sonny Clark on piano and an album in 1958 for World Pacific together with Charlie Mariano. Dodgion's first true release as a bandleader arrived in 2004 with an ensemble called The Joy of Sax, featuring saxophonists Frank Wess, Brad Leali, Dan Block and Jay Brandford, pianist Mike LeDonne, bassist Dennis Irwin and percussionist Joe Farnsworth.

Discography

With Louis Armstrong
;With the Count Basie Orchestra
With Randy Brecker
With Ron Carter
With Al Cohn
;With Tadd Dameron
;With Richard Davis
;With Jerry Dodgion Quartet
;With Lou Donaldson
With Benny Green
;With Bobby Hackett
;With Johnny Hammond
  • The Prophet
;With Herbie Hancock
;With Antônio Carlos Jobim
  • Stone Flower
  • Tide
  • Matita Perê
;With J. J. Johnson
  • J.J.!
;With Etta Jones
With Quincy Jones
  • I/We Had a Ball
;With The Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra
;With Yusef Lateef
  • Part of the Search
  • In a Temple Garden
;With Herbie Mann
  • My Kinda Groove
  • Our Mann Flute
;With Marian McPartland
  • Portrait of Marian McPartland
;With Blue Mitchell
  • Boss Horn
  • Heads Up!
;With Wes Montgomery
;With Oliver Nelson
With David "Fathead" Newman
  • Scratch My Back
;With Chico O'Farrill
  • Nine Flags
With Jimmy Owens
  • Headin' Home
;With Duke Pearson
;With Lalo Schifrin
  • Black Widow
;With Shirley Scott
With Jack Sheldon
;With Dinah Shore and Red Norvo
;With Jimmy Smith
;With Jimmy Smith and Wes Montgomery
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With Dakota Staton'
;With Sonny Stitt
;With Cal Tjader
;With Stanley Turrentine
;With Grover Washington, Jr.
;With Gerald Wilson
;With Kai Winding
;With Phil Woods