The Cookers: Warriors

by AAJ Italy Staff
March 28, 2011

Il progetto Warriors nasce da un'idea del trombettista e arrangiatore David Weiss, fondatore del New Jazz Composers Octet. Ha riunito sette maestri legati alla stagione del jazz anni Sessanta-Settanta, in particolare a quella fusione di hard bop, free e modale ben rappresentata da Coltrane, Woody Shaw, Hubbard e da molta produzione Blue Note. Guerrieri perch�� esponenti di un jazz che non ha seguito le strade pi�� agibili sul piano commerciale e/o dell'apprezzamento critico, col risultato di produrre musica assai durevole, ...

Eddie Henderson: Heritage

by Stuart Broomer
February 17, 2009

Trumpeter Eddie Henderson has been moving in and out of jazz since the '60s, combining parallel careers as a musician and psychiatrist. In that time he's applied his strongly lyrical playing to both acoustic post-bop and fusion settings, but his greatest celebrity has definitely come from his credits on the electric side. In the early '70s he was a charter member of the Herbie Hancock sextet that recorded Mwandishi (Warner Bros., 1970) and that fusion of horns and funk rhythms ...

Eddie Henderson: The Doctor is In

by Ken Dryden
September 9, 2007

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. The Leaders Spirits Alike Double Moon 2007

The Leaders was an occasional all-star gathering during the '80s-90s that ...

Eddie Henderson Project: Precious Moment

by Chris May
June 5, 2006

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 means as retiring a figure as Maupin, Henderson is hardly prolific, and has for years set aside sufficient non-music time to continue a parallel ...

Eddie Henderson

by Peter Madsen
May 30, 2006

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 situations with people like bassist Mario Pavone, drummers Matt Wilson, Steve Johns or Sylivia Cuenca, and often with the Mingus Big Band. I love ...

Eddie Henderson: Time & Spaces

by John Kelman
October 8, 2004

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 been influenced by Davis, but with an adventurous spirit all his own. In the ensuing years, while the spirit of Miles never left him, ...

Eddie Henderson: So What

by Russ Musto
December 12, 2003

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 use of space clearly place him at the apex of the Miles continuum, and his working quartet with pianist Dave Kikoski and bassist Ed ...