Joe Henderson
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Lima OH, United States (1937 – 2001)
Henderson was born in Lima, Ohio on 24th April 1937.
He studied music at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University before playing in Detroit at the beginning of his career. After a two year hitch in the U.S. Army (1960-1962), Henderson arrived in New York, where trumpeter Kenny Dorham provided valuable guidance. Although Henderson’s earliest recordings were marked by a strong hard-bop influence, his playing encompassed not only the bebop tradition, but rhythm and blues, latin, and avant-garde as well. He soon joined Horace Silver’s band and provided a seminal solo on the jukebox hit
Song For My Father. After leaving Silver’s band in 1966, Henderson resumed freelancing and also co-led a big band with Kenny Dorham. Henderson’s arrangements for the band went unrecorded until the release of his album Big Band on Verve Records in 1996.From 1963 to 1968 Joe appeared on nearly thirty albums for Blue Note. The recordings ranged from relatively conservative hard-bop sessions to more avant-garde explorations. He played a prominent role in many landmark recordings: Horace Silver’s swinging and soulful Song For My Father, Herbie Hancock’s dark and densely orchestrated Prisoner, and Andrew Hill’s avant-garde Black Fire. In 1967, there was a notable, but brief, association with Miles Davis’ famous quintet featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, and Tony Williams. Although the band was never recorded, Henderson is reputed to have occasionally stolen the show. Henderson’s adaptability and eclecticism would become even more apparent in the years to follow.
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The State of the Tenor, Volume 1
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Double Rainbow
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Power To The People
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Inner Urge
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heavydiscipline The flute in Multiple is wonderful it's so subtle on the first track but fits perfectly. Gotta love that album art, too.
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GregOfTheOcean @parisblues: are you kidding me? if tobacco is such a problem for you that you have to preach about it in a jazz musician's shoutbox, then you are you are so out of touch that you're beyond help. cigarettes were an integral part of the jazz image back in the days of henderson and many other greats, before its dangers were fully understood. smoking isn't great, but don't bring your censorship in here.
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haunted_diamond "photograph" (double rainbow album) my fav.
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thenearestdoor Inner urge is always on my player. Can't get enough!
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ToothandNail04 ugh shut up
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your point? it's a picture of joe henderson being joe henderson. just because you're against smoking doesn't mean that pictures of people smoking are inappropriate. grow up.
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chriss2732 rip joe
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Wi11s0n Inner Urge album is fantastic. can't get enough of it, uh (2) Tetragon has been played on repeat recently as well. This cat knew how to solo outside the box but still capture some of those classic parker licks. I smile every time I find one.
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