Joe Henderson

tenor saxophone, flute · 1937–2001 · Lima (Ohio)

Tenor saxophonist born in Lima (Ohio), Joe Henderson took part between 1963 and 1968 in nearly thirty Blue Note albums, including Horace Silver's Song for My Father and Lee Morgan's The Sidewinder. Settled in San Francisco in the early 1970s, he regained a large audience in the 1990s with his Verve albums, starting with Lush Life (1992).

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Styles

• Hard bop
• Modal

Landmark tracks

• Blue Bossa (1963)
• Recorda Me (1963)

Sources

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