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Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase

Read "Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi

by Angelo Leonardi
June 15, 2026

La pubblicazione dell'inedito concerto di Joe Henderson al Jazz Showcase di Chicago nel 1978, è un'altra scoperta magistrale della Resonance Records. Oltre due ore e mezza di musica travolgente e inventiva, che vede il sassofonista accompagnato dalla pianista Joanne Brackeen, dal contrabbassista Steve Rodby e dal batterista Danny Spencer. Pubblicato in un triplo vinile o doppio CD, l'album inaugura la collaborazione tra Zev Feldman, il produttore della Resonance Records, e Wayne Segal, il figlio del leggendario proprietario del locale, per ...

Album Review

Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
May 4, 2026

All About Jazz loyalists will most certainly recall the excitement that accompanied the manic energy of the not-too-distant Blue Note release of Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs (2024), pitting saxophonist Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner onstage in the Bronx in 1966. There is a great deal of that same joie de vivre captured here on Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase, Resonance's first release from the Jazz Showcase archive Twelve years down the line, Henderson ...

Album Review

Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Joshua Weiner

by Joshua Weiner
April 19, 2026

After 15 years in the vaults, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase represents the first fruits of “Jazz Detective" producer Zev Feldman's expedition into the tape archives of Chicago club owner Joe Segal. Working with Joe's son Wayne Segal, Feldman and Resonance Records founder George Klabin have prepared a quartet of vinyl sets, recorded live at The Jazz Showcase, for Record Store Day 2026, with CD and digital releases to follow a week later. Joining Joe Henderson's triple LP (or ...

Album Review

Joe Henderson: Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase

Read "Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase" reviewed by Pierre Giroux

by Pierre Giroux
April 18, 2026

Some live recordings capture a set. Others capture a feeling. Joe Henderson's Consonance: Live At The Jazz Showcase, Resonance Records' newly discovered limited edition 3LP Record Store Day release, followed shortly by a 2CD version, is more than just another archival find. It feels vibrant from the very first notes, reminding us how Henderson could turn a club date into a lively conversation. Henderson is a gravitational force here, with his tenor's sound that is warm, muscular, slightly ...

Highly Opinionated

Fantasy Box Set League

by Patrick Burnette
January 30, 2025

Box sets are back, baby! Some of us old timers thought they might be gone for good after the CD crash (remember when Joe Henderson's The Milestone Years was going for twenty-bucks at your local mall?) But companies have realized that for those happy few who continue collecting “physical media," the big-ole stack of music still holds an appeal. In these later days, when the audience for such extravagance is both smaller and crazier than that in the ...

Radio & Podcasts

Terry Gibbs, Joanne Brackeen, Tim Berne

by David Brown
October 17, 2024

This week on the Jazz Continuum we compare two takes on the 1936 tune “I'm An Old Cowhand," one from Jack Teagarden and the other from Sonny Rollins. The vibes will be our focus for this next set with recent releases from Chien Chien Lu and Warren Wolf. Works from living legend Terry Gibbs will follow in celebration of the vibraphonist's upcoming 100th birthday. 1950s piano pieces will follow from Patti Bown, Jutta Hipp and Dorothy Donegan. Our Bud Powell ...

Radio & Podcasts

New Midsummer Releases Plus A Pride Of Jazz Leos

by Mary Foster Conklin
August 9, 2021

This broadcast presents midsummer releases from pianist Bobby West and vocalist Carmela Rappazzo, plus a single of a new collaboration from vocalists Lucy Yeghiazaryan & Vanisha Gould, with birthday shoutouts to a pride of Jazz Leos: Nnenna Freelon, composer Pamela Baskin-Watson, pianists Joanne Brackeen and Shamie Royston, vocalists Camille Bertault, Fay Victor and Luba Mason, among others. Thanks for listening and please support the artists you hear by purchasing their music during this time of pandemic. Playlist Bobby ...