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| 1. | Teeter Totter
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| 2. | Pedro's Time
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| 3. | Our Thing
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| 4. | Back Road
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| 5. | Escapade
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| 6. | Teeter Totter
Alternate Take
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Jazz
Recorded at the Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on September 9, 1963
Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone); Kenny Dorham (trumpet); Andrew Hill (piano); Eddie Khan (bass); Pete La Roca (drums)
Producer: Alfred Lion.
Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna.
Originally released on Blue Note (4152). Includes liner notes by Leonard Feather and Bob Blumenthal.
Digitally remastered using 24-bit technology by Rudy Van Gelder (2000, Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey).
This is part of the Blue Note Rudy Van Gelder Editions series.
The partnership of Joe Henderson and Kenny Dorham yielded a handful of fine sessions for Blue Note in the early '60s. Among them, OUR THING stands as a particularly excellent testament to their combined brilliance. Henderson's second date as a leader, OUR THING is part of a triumvirate that includes his first Blue Note date, PAGE ONE, and Dorham's UNA MAS, representing the best of the pair's recorded output of the period. Also sitting in on the session is the eclectic pianist Andrew Hill, who would use Henderson and Dorham on his own landmark date POINT OF DEPARTURE.
Henderson and Dorham split the writing duties on this disc, with Henderson's bopping "Teeter Tottter" included in two takes. Dorham's reflective "Pedro's Time" is reminiscent of the pastel-colored Latin pieces included on the aforementioned UNA MAS. In contrast, Henderson's blazing title track includes some of the disc's most virtuoso performances. However, the most substantial track is Dorham's beautifully crafted "Escapade," a darkly lit, introspective melody with a melancholy groove that shows how hard bop could still retain its tender side while reflecting the turmoil of the times.
Joe Henderson
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Apr 24, 1937 in Lima, Ohio
Died: Jun 30, 2001 in San Francisco, CA
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Ballads, Bossa Nova, Fusion, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Post-Bop, Soul-Jazz
Joe Henderson is proof that jazz can sell without watering down the music; it just takes creative marketing. Although his sound and style were virtually unchanged from the mid-'60s, Joe Henderson's signing with Verve in 1992 was treated as a major news event by the label (even though he had already recorded many memorable sessions for other companies). His Verve recordings had easy-to-market themes (tributes to Billy Strayhorn, Miles Davis, and Antonio Carlos Jobim) and, as a result, he became a national celebrity and a constant poll winner while still sounding the same as when he was in obscurity in the 1970s.
The general feeling is that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving jazz musician. After studying at Kentucky State College and Wayne State University, Joe Henderson played locally in Detroit before spending time in the military (1960-1962). He played briefly with Jack McDuff and then gained recognition for his work with Kenny Dorham (1962-1963), a veteran bop trumpeter who championed him and helped Henderson get signed to Blue Note. Henderson appeared on many Blue Note sessions both as a leader and as a sideman, spent 1964-1966 with Horace Silver's Quintet, and during 1969-1970 was in Herbie Hancock's band. From the start, he had a very distinctive sound and style which, although influenced a bit by both Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, also contained a lot of brand new phrases and ideas. Henderson had long been able to improvise in both inside and outside settings, from hard bop to freeform. In the 1970s, he recorded frequently for Milestone and lived in San Francisco, but was somewhat taken for granted. The second half of the 1980s found him continuing his freelancing and teaching while recording for Blue Note, but it was when he hooked up with Verve that he suddenly became famous. Virtually all of his recordings are currently in print on CD, including a massive collection of his neglected (but generally rewarding) Milestone dates. On June 30, 2001, Joe Henderson passed away due to heart failure after a long battle with emphysema.
---Scott Yanow, All Music Guide |
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