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Joe Henderson: Tenor Giant Stood Among the Greats

Source: All About Jazz

Joe Henderson made his initial reputation in the ferment of what might be called Blue Note Records' second classic phase in the early 1960s, when a new generation of young musicians began to extend the basic hard bop framework of the label's seminal 1950s output in more experimental directions. The saxophonist was one of the players at the core of that development, both as a leader and in recordings as a sideman with artists like Kenny ...

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Jazz Saxophonist Joe Henderson Dies At 64

Source: All About Jazz

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN FRANCISCO -- Three-time Grammy winning tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, long one of jazz insiders' best-kept secrets, died Saturday of heart failure following a long bout with emphysema. He was 64.

“His heart just failed on him," said his sister, Phyllis Henderson, from Lima, Ohio, Saturday night.

Henderson stopped playing publicly more than a year ago due to his health problems.

Henderson's lyrical style, often said to be reminiscent of the legendary Stan Getz, brought him ...

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Makanda (Ken) McIntyre: Lyrical Member of the Avant-Garde

Source: All About Jazz

Makanda (Ken) McIntyre was best known for his work with saxophonist Eric Dolphy on the album Looking Ahead in 1960, and if that association led to his being bracketed with Dolphy in terms of style and approach, he was a significant musician in his own right. He played a veritable arsenal of wind instruments, taking in several of the saxophones (with alto as his favoured horn), clarinet, bass clarinet, and the much less usual (in jazz at any rate) oboe ...

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Chico O'Farrill: Prime Mover in Afro-Cuban Jazz

Source: All About Jazz

Chico O'Farrill was one of the main guiding lights in the emergence of Afro-Cuban Jazz in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He arrived in New York from his native Cuba at a point where musicians like Dizzy Gillespie and Machito had begun to forge a distinctive fusion of bebop and Cuban music, dubbed Cubop at the time, and quickly became a key figure in that movement. Ironically, he confessed to a rather low opinion of ...

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John Lee Hooker: Eight Decades of the Hook

Source: All About Jazz

In 1989, blues singer/guitarist John Lee Hooker exploded, again, onto the music scene with an extraordinary recording. The Healer, which might have easily been a denouement in a luminous career, served as a new beginning, marked with a Grammy award for “I'm in the Mood," a re-sculptured duet with singer/slide guitarist Bonnie Raitt. While the record was well received for its all star cast, including Raitt, Carlos Santana, Keith Richards and Canned Heat, critics accused the bluesman of spreading himself ...

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Jazz in the Garden at The Newark Museum

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CHRISTIAN McBRIDE on www.doctormusic.com

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Rocco's Jazz Club to reopen in Hollywood

Source: All About Jazz

Rocco Somazzi, whose jazz club, Rocco's, in Bel-Air was a much-favored hangout until it shut down in December, is surfacing with a new venue in Hollywood. The room, at 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., will be part of a multi-function cafe and performance space. The jazz events will take place late, starting at 10:30 p.m. or later--an hour that is common in night-owl Manhattan but a bit risky for early-rising L.A. The new Rocco's opens July 13 and 14 with a ...

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