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Article: Interview

David Weiss: Writin', Arrangin' and Playin'

Read "David Weiss: Writin', Arrangin' and Playin'" reviewed by R.J. DeLuke


David Weiss has been on the New York scene for a while now, writing and arranging, producing albums, organizing an outstanding octet. He's known for all that. He also plays the trumpet. Quite well, in fact. Although he's played with the likes of Jaki Byard, Frank Foster, Craig Handy, Christian McBride, Jimmy Heath and ...

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News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Henderson

Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Henderson

All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Henderson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Eddie HendersonEddie Henderson was one of the few trumpeters who was strongly influenced by Miles Davis\' work of his early fusion period. He grew up in San Francisco, studied trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Eddie Henderson: The Doctor is In

Read "Eddie Henderson: The Doctor is In" reviewed by Ken Dryden


Now in his late 60s, Eddie Henderson was at one time torn between medicine and jazz; he completed training to be a psychiatrist but chose a performing career. The trumpeter has gone back and forth between fusion and various forms of bop, though he seems to be leaning more toward post-bop in recent years. ...

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Precious Moment

Label: Kind of Blue Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: To Wisdom The Prize; Blue In Green; Around The World In 3/4; Precious Moment; Dear Old Stockholm; Unforgettable; Dance Cadaverous; Wild Flower; Silent Night.

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Article: Album Review

Eddie Henderson Project: Precious Moment

Read "Precious Moment" reviewed by Chris May


It's been a good month for Mwandishi alumni. First Bennie Maupin released the fine acoustic astral jazz set Penumbra, the reed player's first album in eight years. And now trumpeter Eddie Henderson has released a well-titled, poised and gorgeous ballads' set, Precious Moment. A new album from Henderson is almost always excellent news. While by no ...

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Article: Wide Open Jazz and Beyond

Eddie Henderson

Read "Eddie Henderson" reviewed by Peter Madsen


Of course Dr. Eddie Henderson can heal the sick as a Doctor of Medicine and Psychiatry but his greatest gift of healing comes when he picks up his trumpet and plays like an angel or a devil depending on what kind of healing you need. I've known Eddie for over ten years playing together in various ...

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Time & Spaces

Label: Sirocco Music Limited
Released: 2004
Track listing: Water Babies; Spaces; Masqualero; Tender You; Entropy; Summer Knows (Theme from Summer of '42); Angola; Directions.

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Article: Album Review

Eddie Henderson: Time & Spaces

Read "Time & Spaces" reviewed by John Kelman


Long before Wallace Roney became a Miles Davis protege in the late '80s, Eddie Henderson had forgone his training in medicine, falling under the direct and indirect influence of the Prince of Darkness in the late '60s. With groups including Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band from '70 to '72, Henderson forged a voice whose tone may have ...

Album

So What

Label: Eighty-Eights
Released: 2003
Track listing: Prince of Darkness; On Green Dolphin Street; Footprints; Well You Needn

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Article: Album Review

Eddie Henderson: So What

Read "So What" reviewed by Russ Musto


Despite its title, this Miles Davis tribute's focus is not on the classic unit that recorded the track after which the album is named, but on the style and music of the trumpeter's great ‘60s quintet with Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams. Eddie Henderson's mellifluous sound, meticulous choice of notes and atmospheric ...


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