Chip Henderson has been an active performer across a wide range of musical settings—from traditional Dixieland ensembles to chamber orchestras—since the mid-1990s. Throughout his career, he has collaborated both formally and informally with notable artists including Marvin Stamm, Donald Brown, Ron Eschete, Mundell Lowe, Howard Alden, and Peter Bernstein.

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Chip has performed extensively with small jazz groups and big bands in both the Memphis and Nashville metropolitan areas. He has also appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta, IRIS Chamber Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Jackson Symphony (TN), the Knoxville Symphony, Orchestra Kentucky, and the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra. His versatility as a multi-instrumentalist has led to performing locally with the national touring productions of Chicago, Monty Python’s Spamalot, The Lion King, High School Musical, 9 to 5, Shrek: The Musical, The Addams Family, Anything Goes, Motown, and many others.

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Since 2009, Chip has worked as a freelance arranger for Hal Leonard Publishing, contributing fourteen books to the Essential Elements Guitar Ensemble series and two titles to the Jazz Guitar Chord Melody series. In 2016, Alfred Publishing released his transcription book on the soloing style of swing-era guitarist Charlie Christian—a project that led to Chip giving seminars in the U.S., Canada, and South America on Christian’s soloing style, as well as an invitation to perform at Christian’s 2018 induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

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Chip earned his Bachelor (1997) and Master (2002) of Music degrees in Jazz Guitar Performance from the University of Memphis, studying with Gerard Harris, and Charlton Johnson.

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Chip currently teaches jazz guitar for the Jazz Studies program at Middle Tennessee State University (Murfreesboro, TN) and the Fine Arts/Humanities department at Columbia State Community College (Franklin, TN).