Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Carmell Jones (trumpet), Horace Silver (piano), Teddy Smith (bass) and Roger Humphries (drums). From the album Song for My Father (1965).
Joe Henderon was an American tenor saxophonist whose career lasted over forty years. After his military service he moved to New York, where he met Kenny Dorham and Junior Cook. Although in his early albums he played hard bop, he was also able to play bebop, rhythm and blues, Latin music and avant-garde, and joined Horace Silver’s group. After leaving Silver in 1966, he formed a big band with Dorham.
Joe Henderson
From 1963 to 1968 he participated in almost thirty albums, six of them under his name. Later he worked with Freddie Hubbard and then with Herbie Hancock, and experimented with jazz fusion. He remained a leader in the 1980s and focused on reinterpreting standards and his own previous compositions. In 1992 he recorded Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn, which was a huge success, followed by tributes to Miles Davis and Antonio Carlos Jobin, that made him famous. He died in 2001 in San Francisco of a heart attack at the age of 64.
Joe Henderson
The introduction is made by Silver and Jones, and then the other musicians join in to expose the theme. Some Jones drumrolls make up the bridge. Silver starts his solo with a slow rhythm, but adding more animated sections from time to time and using the blues. After that, Henderson makes strange noises with the saxophone before performing his solo, which gets more intense as he goes along. Then Silver plays a soft interlude to give way to the re-exposure of the theme.
