Joe Henderson | Page One – [Blue Note Records, 1963]
Joe Henderson, Page One
This 1963 session was
Henderson’s debut as a leader, and it introduced a strikingly individualistic tenor saxophonist, with a distinctively muscular sound and approach, as well as a talent for finding a personal route through the dominant tenor styles of
Sonny Rollins and
John Coltrane. At the time of the session,
Henderson worked regularly in a quintet with the veteran trumpeter
Kenny Dorham, and the two enjoyed a special chemistry apparent on several
Blue Note recordings under their individual names. One unusual facet is the hard-bop take on the then emerging bossa nova, apparent in the first recording of
Dorham’s now standard “
Blue Bossa,” on which Henderson’s thoughtful construction is apparent, and the saxophonist’s own coiling Latin tune, “
Recorda Me.” Pianist
McCoy Tyner, bassist
Butch Warren, and drummer
Pete LaRoca provide more than solid support for a date that’s as often reflective as it is forceful. —
Stuart Broomer
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