Joe Henderson

Well, I have been digging into, you know, I'm usually working on a transcribed solo at some point, and I'm always at some stages of that.

And I'm right in the middle of a solo by Joe Henderson on the standard, the Cole Porter standard, Night and Day.

It's my first Joe Henderson solo, actually.

and uh it's quite a uh it's quite a difficult i mean it's not the most difficult joe henderson solo but even them not the most the easiest joe henderson solo is still got some things in there that'll really um you know his that'll really you know make you work because his his whole concept of time is a little different than than than a lot of guys and also his use of um of, uh, like, uh, sextuplets and septuplets and all that stuff.

And, and the way he moves around, moves around the saxophone is, uh, it's a, it's a challenge for me anyway, probably not for Joel, but for me, definitely.

Um, so that, and it's, and it's an interesting song because it's, it's, he took the changes to the tune and he kind of reharmonized it and kind of Coltrane-ized it.

So it's great.

It's great, uh, entryway for the world of Joe Henderson, if nothing else.

I was like, he's not that drunk yet, but I mean, it is a possibility, but it's not actually what happened.

But yeah, I mean, he put on, like you say, because he sort of said, what kind of things? And I mentioned, I think I said, like Billy Harper, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane.

And he put on, like you say, that India.

So we kind of sat and it was just, again, like I remember, I mean, it was so... intense.

On piano, Herbie Hancock.

Tenor sax, Joe Henderson.

On bass, Freddie Hubbard.

And you're at a cut from his classic album, Red Clay, also on the CTI label.

Ron Carter bass.

Lenny White on drums.

Joe Henderson on tenor sax.

Freddie Hubbard was a member of the finishing school of jazz, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

yeah the the beat the rhythm of the band there even before david comes in on the sax it just reminds me of my favorite things and i keep expecting to hear the soprano of coltrane come in but it's a it's a great clip dad that that was perfect great way to

start the clips it is a great way to start it off that was song number six there are only six tracks on the album in american uh i'm sorry african drums was written originally by beaver harris who after world war ii got into drums inspired by max roach uh Beaver Harris played for the likes of Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Dexter Gordon, Albert Eiler, Lee Konitz, Thelonious Monk, Russell Budd, Sonny Rollins, McCoy Tyner, Sonny Stitt, Clark Terry, Chet Baker, Doc Cheatham.

who is this guy what instrument did he play he is a drummer

drummer okay

Bassist and composer Ben Allison wrote and performed our theme, featuring Ted Nash on flute and the voiceover by Piang Threadgill.

As today's edition of Mondo Jazz comes to an end, we have reserved a general stretch of time for a beautifully long version of Recordame by Joe Anderson.

As often happens with Anderson's archival releases, which bring previously unreleased live recordings to light, this is an opportunity simply to sit back and bask in the extraordinary range of his improvising.

This version comes from Consonance, a double album documenting a 1978 performance at Chicago's Jazz Showcase with Joanne Bracken on piano, Steve Rodby on bass, and Danny Spencer on drums.

So let's give Joe Henderson and his remarkable quartet the time they deserve.

And that, my friends, will be it for today.

Thank you for listening.

They get the contract signed.

Joe Henderson is done.

You know, Auerbach has said that Henderson is not in great shape heading into camp.

You know, they're kind of...

And I'll be with you up until the hour of 12 o'clock, giving you some of the best jazz on the internet.

Right now, we're going to get into the music of my main man, Mr. Joe Henderson.

This is music from his best CD or album that he ever produced, called Mode for Joe.

and the name of the cup is called black.

Joe Henderson on jazz in the AM on KJAZZ on mycitymymusic.com.

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Thank you.

Oh, boy.

You're listening to Tony Devonport on RaidersBroadcast.com, and I open the show with a couple of great tracks from 1974, Keith Jarrett featuring Jan Garbarek, Ratti Daniel- uh, Danielsson, and Chris Chris- Christensen from "Belonging" and the track "The Windup," then Miles Davis from the great album, "Big Fun," and "Yuffit." Now, the featured artist and album for the show will be a really interesting and nice, um, I suppose, combination of things.

Joe Henderson from "Double Rainbow," the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jobim in 1995 recordings.

So various things on that coming up, but to take us there, firstly, we have Woody Herman's "Big New Herd," followed by Art Blakey.

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Couple of rather rousing tracks there from the late '50s and early '60s.

Woody Herman's "Big New Herd" from At the Monterey Jazz Festival, and the 1959 track "Skylark," followed by Art Blakey from A Night in Tunisia, the classic album from 1960, and his song "So Tired." Now though, to our featured artist and album for the show, Joe Henderson from Double Rainbow, the music of Antonio Carlos Jobim in 1995.

First hear coming up from that now.

He's awesome.

His name is Andy and he plays that like Joe Henderson, Larry Carlton, like Guthrie Govan, like all of those kind of stuff.

And so he got me into like Fusion and he showed me all of those bass players like Chaco Pastorius, Hadrian Farrell, Richard Bona, you know, all the Weather Report stuff.

And when he showed me all those things, I actually thought that a bass couldn't play that fast.