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Other people|Joe HendersonInfobox musical artist| name = Joe Henderson| image = Joe Henderson 2.jpg| caption = Joe Henderson with Neil Swainson| image_size =| landscape =yes| background = non_vocal_instrumentalist| birth_date = Birth date|1937|4|24 Lima, Ohio , United States | death_date = death date and age|2001|6|30|1937|4|24 San Francisco, California , United States| genre = Soul-jazz Mainstream jazz Hard bop Post-bop Jazz fusion | years_active = 1960& ndash;1997| label = Milestone Records|Milestone , Verve Records|Verve , Blue Note Records|Blue Note | associated_acts =| website =| notable_instruments = Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 & ndash; June 30, 2001) was an United States|American jazz tenor saxophone|saxophonist . In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including Blue Note Records|Blue Note .
Biography
Early life
From a very large family with five sisters and nine brothers, Henderson was born in Lima, Ohio , and was encouraged by his parents and older brother James T. to study music. He dedicated his first album to them "for being so understanding and tolerant" during his formative years. Early musical interests included drum s, piano , saxophone and composition. According to Kenny Dorham , two local piano teachers who went to school with Henderson's brothers and sisters, Richard Patterson and Don Hurless, gave him a knowledge of the piano.Original liner notes to Page One (Joe Henderson album)|Page One by Kenny Dorham He was particularly enamored of his brother's record collection. It seems that a hometown drummer, John Jarette, advised Henderson to listen to musicians like Lester Young , Stan Getz , Dexter Gordon and CharlieParker . He also liked Flip Phillips , Lee Konitz and the Jazz at the Philharmonic recordings. However, Parker became his greatest inspiration. His first approach to the saxophone was under the tutelage of Herbert Murphy in high school. In this period of time, he wrote several scores for the school band and rock groups.
By eighteen, Henderson was active on the Detroit jazz scene of the 1950 in music|mid-'50s , playing in jam sessions with visiting New York stars. While attending classes of flute and Double bass|bass at Wayne State University , he further developed his saxophone and compositional skills under the guidance of renowned teacher Larry Teal at the Teal School of Music. In late 1959, he formed his first group. By the time he arrived at Wayne State University , he had transcribed and memorized so many Lester Young solos that his professors believed he had perfect pitch . Classmates Yusef Lateef , Barry Harris and Donald Byrd undoubtedly provided additional inspiration.Mel Martin http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/henderson.html Interview with Joe Henderson published in The Saxophone Journal , March/April 1991. Retrieved on 24 April 2007. He also studied music at Kentucky State College .
Shortly prior to his army induction in 1960, Henderson was commissioned by United Nations Association in Canada|UNAC to write some arrangements for the suite "Swings and Strings", which was later performed by a ten-member orchestra and the local dance band of Jimmy Wilkins.
Early career
He spent two years (1960–1962) in the United States Army|U.S. Army : firstly in Fort Benning , where he even competed in the army talent show and won the first place, then in Fort Belvoir , where he was chosen for a world tour, with a show to entertain soldiers. While in Paris, he met Kenny Drew and Kenny Clarke . Then he was sent to Maryland to conclude his draft. In 1962, he was finally discharged and promptly moved to New York. He first met trumpeter Kenny Dorham , an invaluable guidance for him, at saxophonist Junior Cook 's place. That very evening, they went see Dexter Gordon playing at the Birdland . Henderson was asked by Gordon himself to play something with his rhythm section; needless to say, he happily accepted.
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|R& B , Latin American music|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. His arrangements for the band went unrecorded until the release of Joe Henderson Big Band ( Verve Records|Verve ) in 1996.
Blue Note
From 1963 to 1968, Joe appeared on nearly thirty albums for Blue Note Records|Blue Note , including five released under his name. The recordings ranged from relatively conservative hard-bop sessions ( Page One (Joe Henderson album)|Page One , 1963) to more explorative sessions ( Inner Urge and Mode for Joe , 1966). He played a prominent role in many landmark albums under other leaders for the label including most of Horace Silver 's swinging and soulful Song For My Father , Herbie Hancock 's dark and densely orchestrated The Prisoner (album)|The Prisoner , Lee Morgan 's hit album The Sidewinder and 'out' albums with pianist Andrew Hill ( Black Fire (album)|Black Fire 1963 and Point of Departure (Andrew Hill album)|Point of Departure , 1964) and drummer Pete La Roca ( Basra , 1965).
In 1967, there was a notable, but brief, association with Miles Davis 's quintet featuring Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter , Ron Carter and Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams , although the band was never recorded. Henderson's adaptability and eclecticism would become even more apparent in the years to follow.
Milestone
Signing with Orrin Keepnews 's fledgling Milestone Records|Milestone label in 1967 marked a new phase in Henderson’s career. He co-led the Jazz Communicators with Freddie Hubbard from 1967-1968. Henderson was also featured on Hancock's Fat Albert Rotunda for Warner Bros. It was during this time that Henderson began to experiment with jazz-funk fusion, studio overdubbing, and other electronic effects. Song and album titles like Power To the People , In Pursuit of Blackness , and Black Narcissus reflected his growing political awareness and social consciousness, although the last album was named after the Powell and Pressburger Black Narcissus|film of 1947.
After a brief association with Blood, Sweat & Tears in 1971, Henderson moved to San Francisco and added teaching to his résumé. He continued to record and perform as always, but seemed to be taken for granted by jazz audiences.
Later career and death
Though he occasionally worked with Echoes of an Era , the Griffith Park Band and Chick Corea , Henderson remained primarily a leader throughout the 1980s. An accomplished and prolific composer, he began to focus more on reinterpreting standards and his own earlier compositions. Blue Note attempted to position the artist at the forefront of a resurgent jazz scene in 1986 with the release of the two-volume State of the Tenor recorded at the Village Vanguard in New York City. The albums (with Ron Carter on double bass|bass and Al Foster on Drum kit|drums ) revisited the tenor trio form used by Sonny Rollins in 1957 on his own live Vanguard albums for the same label. Henderson established his basic repertoire for the next seven or eight years, with Thelonious Monk|Monk 's "Ask Me Now" becoming a signature ballad feature.
It was only after the release of An Evening with Joe Henderson , a live trio set (featuring Charlie Haden and Al Foster ) for the Italian independent label Red Records that Henderson underwent a major career change: Verve took notice of him and in the early 1990s signed him. That label adopted a 'songbook' approach to recording him, coupling it with a considerable marketing and publicity campaign, which more successfully positioned Henderson at the forefront of the contemporary jazz scene. His 1992 'comeback' album Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn was a commercial and critical success and followed by tribute albums to Miles Davis , Antonio Carlos Jobim and a rendition of the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess .
On June 30, 2001, Joe Henderson died due to heart failure after a long battle with emphysema.Scott Yanow, Allmusic|class=artist|id=p6716/biography|pure_url=yes Allmusic Biography Retrieved on 25 June 2009.
1994: Live - with Bheki Mseleku , George Mraz , Al Foster
2001: Sunrise in Tokyo: Live in 1971 - with Terumasa Hino , Masabumi Kikuchi
;Other labels
1977: Barcelona ( Enja Records ) - with Wayne Darling , Ed Soph
1979: ''Relaxin' at Camarillo ( Contemporary Records ) with Chick Corea , either Tony Dumas or Richard Davis (double bassist)|Richard Davis on bass, Peter Erskine or Tony Williams (drummer)|Tony Williams drums
1980: Mirror, Mirror ( Pausa Records ) with Chick Corea , Ron Carter , Billy Higgins
1999: Warm Valley ( West Wind Records ) - with Tony Martucci , Tommy Cecil , Louis Scherr
2004: Charlie Haden /Joe Henderson/ Al Foster - The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson (Verve, 1989)
References
Reflist
External links
http://home.ica.net/~blooms/hendersonhome.html The Joe Henderson Discography
http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-essential-joe-henderson "Twelve Essential Joe Henderson Tracks" by S. VictorAaron ( http://www.jazz.com Jazz.com)
http://nyjazzacademy.com/lushlifetranscription.php Joe Henderson "Lush Life" Solo: Transcription and Analysis
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