© -Bob Blumenthal/Mosaic Records, copyright protected all rights reserved used with the author’s permission. We wrote to Michael and Bob to ask their permission to feature the initial pages of the booklet notes to give you a taste of what’s on offer here and they kindly consented to allowing us to share the following excerpts with you. You can find out more about Mosaic and related order information for the Henderson 5 CD set by going here. It’s important to keep in mind that these are limited edition sets so when they are gone, they are gone. The finished products are beautifully packaged sets marked by enhanced audio quality, superbly researched and written booklet notes and distinctive black and white photographs of the musicians performing at the original recording dates. Over the years, Blue Note Records, Michael Cuscuna at Mosaic Records and Bob Blumenthal have become an unbeatable team when it comes to licensing, reissuing and annotating the iconic Jazz that Alfred Lion and Frances Wolff produced in the 1950s and 1960s. Bill Kirchner, insert notes to The Joe Henderson Big Band. He is also a composer of substance who has added a sizeable number of pieces to the jazz repertoire.” From the time of his first recordings (1963) until now, Henderson has been a totally distinctive improviser by any and all criteria: melodic inventiveness, harmonic sophistication, rhythmic sureness, a totally personal sound, and arresting powers of communication. “If in the 1990's there is a consensus on anything in jazz, it is that Joe Henderson is one of the music's premier living soloists. Richard Cook and Brian Morton, The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th Ed. His lovely tone, which combines softness and a harsh plangency in a similar way, is another pleasing aspect of his music” He's a thematic musician, working his way round the structure of a composition with methodical intensity, but he's also a masterful licks player, with a seemingly limitless stock of phrases that he can turn to the advantage of any post-bop setting this gives his best improvisations a balance of surprise, immediacy and coherence few other saxophonists can match. “Joe Henderson became one of the surviving jazz icons in the 1990s, and as a consequence his back pages - long neglected by-reissues - were extensively released on CD.
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And by the early 1990's, when he was a respected elder, he made some of his greatest statements on a series of well-produced, nearly theatrical albums for Verve Records.” Henderson's greatest strengths were more traditional: the ballad, the uptempo tune, the standard. He made a series of records for Milestone that used studio echo, Alice Coltrane's harp, violins, wood flutes and other exotic accouterments.īut Mr. He had a clean, expressive upper register and a talent for improvising in semi-abstract harmony, and when the far-out years for jazz arrived in the mid-60's, led by musicians like John Coltrane and Miles Davis, he was well positioned to take part.
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His tenor saxophone sound was shaded, insinuating, full of layers, with quicksilver lines amid careful ballad phrases and short trills. ''Joe had one foot in the present, the other in the future, and he was just a step away from immortality,'' said the saxophonist Benny Golson. He was respected for doing what he enjoys. He made a good living, he owned a house, took care of his medical bills, and his family.
“Dignity is the word for him - intelligent, swinging, hip, modest and worthy are others. Who's playing better on any instrument, more interestingly, more cutting edge yet completely with roots than Joe Henderson? He's my role model in jazz." He's got his own vocabulary, his own phrases, he plays all different ways, like all the great jazz players. He embodies musically all the different elements that come together in his generation.He has one of the most beautiful tones and can get as pretty as Pres or Stan Getz. In Down Beat, the guitarist John Scofield was quoted explaining what's so special: "Joe Henderson is the essence of jazz. © Copyright ® Steven Cerra, copyright protected all rights reserved.
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