{"id":2566,"date":"2011-04-24T18:48:31","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T01:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2011-04-26T10:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-26T17:12:48","slug":"weekend-extra-joe-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/04\/weekend-extra-joe-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Joe Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just pointed out that this is the birthday of Joe Henderson (1937-2001). The <i>Rifftides<\/i> time clock says that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m punched out for the holiday, but to post a remembrance of Joe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sneaking past the security guards and putting up<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Joe-Henderson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Joe-Henderson.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Joe Henderson\" width=\"130\" height=\"104\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2568\" \/><\/a> this remarkable performance of a piece associated nearly as closely with Henderson as with the man who wrote it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/03\/why-kenny-dorham\/\"target=\"_blank\">Kenny Dorham<\/a>. The initial recording of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blue Bossa\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was in 1963 with Dorham on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPage-One-Joe-Henderson%2Fdp%2FB00000IL25&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"target=\"_blank\"><em>Page One<\/em><\/a>, Henderson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s debut as a leader. It was one of a remarkable series of Blue Note albums they made together. Perhaps it is not out of the question to imagine that during this 1994 performance in Munich, Henderson was thinking of his old pal. He is the only soloist, soaring on the support he gets from bassist George Mraz, drummer Al Foster and pianist Bheki Mseluku and ending with a quixotic coda&#151;two of them, in fact.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lKEEVECH58Q?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend just pointed out that this is the birthday of Joe Henderson (1937-2001). The Rifftides time clock says that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m punched out for the holiday, but to post a remembrance of Joe I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sneaking past the security guards and putting up this remarkable performance of a piece associated nearly as closely with Henderson as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}