Eddie Henderson (musician)

Eddie Henderson (born October 26, 1940) is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.

Eddie Henderson
Eddie Henderson in 2017
Eddie Henderson in 2017
Background information
Birth nameEdward Jackson Henderson
Born (1940-10-26) October 26, 1940
New York, U.S.
GenresJazz
Occupation(s)Musician
Instrument(s)Trumpet
Years active1970–present
Labels

Family influence and early music history

Henderson was born in New York City on October 26, 1940.[1] At the age of nine he was given an informal lesson by Louis Armstrong, and he continued to study the instrument as a teenager in San Francisco, where he grew up, after his family moved there in 1954, at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.[1][2]

Henderson was influenced by the early fusion work of jazz musician Miles Davis, who was a friend of his parents.[2] They met in 1957 when Henderson was aged seventeen.[1]

After completing his medical education, Henderson went back to the Bay area for his medical internship and residency.[1] It was a week-long gig with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band that led to a three-year job, lasting from 1970 to 1973.[1] In addition to the three albums recorded by the group under Hancock's name, Henderson recorded his first two albums, Realization (1972) and Inside Out (1973), with Hancock and the Mwandishi group.[1]

After leaving Hancock, the trumpeter worked extensively with Pharoah Sanders, Mike Nock, Norman Connors, and Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers,[1] returning to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1975 where he joined the Latin-jazz group Azteca and fronted his own bands.[1] While he gained some recognition for his work with the Herbie Hancock Sextet (1970–1973), his own records were considered too "commercial".[3]

Medical career

After three years in the Air Force, Henderson enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating with a B.S. in zoology in 1964.[1] He then studied medicine at Howard University in Washington D.C., graduating in 1968.[1] Though he undertook his residency in psychiatry, he practiced general medicine.[4]

Personal life

Eddie Henderson is married to Natsuko Henderson. His daughter, Cava Menzies, is a musician and educator. Both his wife and daughter contribute compositions to his albums. [5]

UK success

Henderson's only UK hit was the single "Prance On" recorded for Capitol which reached No. 44 in the UK Singles Chart in November 1978.[6]

Discography

As leader
  • Realization (Capricorn, 1973)
  • Inside Out (Capricorn, 1974) – recorded in 1973
  • Sunburst (Blue Note, 1975)
  • Heritage (Blue Note, 1976)
  • Comin' Through (Capitol, 1977)
  • Mahal (Capitol, 1978)
  • Runnin' to Your Love (Capitol, 1979)
  • Phantoms (SteepleChase, 1989)
  • Think On Me (SteepleChase, 1990) – recorded in 1989
  • Colors of Manhattan with Laurent De Wilde (Gazebo, 1990)
  • Flight of Mind (SteepleChase, 1991)
  • Manhattan in Blue (Videoarts, 1994)
  • Inspiration (Milestone, 1995) – recorded in 1994
  • Tribute to Lee Morgan with Joe Lovano, Cedar Walton, Grover Washington Jr. (NYC, 1995) – recorded in 1994
  • Dark Shadows (Milestone, 1996)
  • Dreams of Gershwin (Videoarts, 1998)
  • Reemergence (Sharp Nine, 1999)
  • Oasis (Sirocco, 2001)
  • So What (Eighty-Eight's, 2002)
  • Time & Spaces (Sirocco, 2004)
  • Echoes (Marge, 2004)
  • Precious Moment (Kind of Blue, 2006)
  • For All We Know (Furthermore, 2010)
  • Collective Portrait (Smoke Sessions, 2015)
  • Be Cool (Smoke Sessions, 2018)
  • Shuffle and Deal (Smoke Sessions, 2020)

As sideman

References
  1. Colin Larkin, ed. (1992). The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music (First ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 1128. ISBN 0-85112-939-0.
  2. R. J. DeLuke "Eddie Henderson: Healing with Music", Allaboutjazz.com
  3. [https://www.allmusic.com/artist/p8733 Biography by Scott Yanow, AllMusic
  4. "Eddie Henderson page at Sharp Nine Records". Archived from the original on 2005-09-20. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
  5. "DownBeat Reviews".
  6. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 250. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
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