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Joe Henderson: In Pursuit of Blackness / Black is the Color
by Robert Spencer
Rather famously, Joe Henderson released a series of albums for Milestone in the early Seventies that courted popular acceptance in a variety of ways: most notably, he played modal proto-world music with Alice Coltrane and added an electric piano and other frou-frou to his ensembles in order to catch the fusion crowd. Nothing worked, and these albums are generally regarded as inferior both to the series of Blue Notes that preceded them and the Grand-Old-Man Verve releases of the present ...
read moreJoe Henderson: Porgy & Bess
by AAJ Staff
In the early 90's, Joe Henderson “reappeared" as a major star on the jazz scene with a Grammy winning tribute album to Billy Strayhorn. Since then, his new label, Verve, has released a steady stream of well received theme albums by Henderson, and the latest addition to that series is Henderson's attempt at the Gershwins' Porgy & Bess. After the fairly traditional Strayhorn tribute, Henderson enlisted the services of guitarist John Scofield for his tribute to Miles Davis. After a ...
read moreJoe Henderson: The Joe Henderson Big Band
by Joel Roberts
Throughout the 1960s, Joe Henderson was the busiest tenor saxophonist at Blue Note, releasing several outstanding albums as a leader and appearing often as a highly-regarded sideman with most of the label's talented and innovative stable of jazz artists. ( Henderson's ubiquity makes his box set The Blue Note Years probably the best available overview of the label's glory days, offering not just a sampling of his solo efforts, but takes from sessions led by Kenny Dorham, ...
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