Dennis Mitcheltree

Jazz saxophonist and composer Dennis Mitcheltree will release his 8th album as a leader, "Seeing Red", Fall 2026.

 A mainstay of the tenor saxophone, based in NYC & LA, he is on Janelle Monáe's 2024 Grammy nominated "The Age Of Pleasure". He 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, Charli Persip, Ronnie Matthews, Pete Yellin, Richie Cole, Bill Holman, Pete Christlieb, Doug Webb, Carl Saunders, Joe Labarbera, John Clayton along with contemporaries Uri Caine, Ingrid Jensen, Andy Milne and David Binney.  He recorded with Janelle Monáe on her 2024 Grammy nominated Best Album of the Year, "The Age Of Pleasure". Mitcheltree was born and raised in Wisconsin, picking 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. 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.