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Wayne Henderson (musician)
Wayne Maurice Henderson (September 24, 1939 – April 5, 2014) was an American soul jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group The Jazz Crusaders. Henderson left the group (who by then had changed their name to The Crusaders) in 1976 to pursue a career in producing, but revived The Jazz Crusaders in 1995. In 2007, Henderson took a position with the California College of Music in Pasadena, California. Henderson had suffered from diabetes and died of heart failure at a Culver City hospital on April 5, 2014 at age 74. Discography As leader/co-leader *1968: The Freedom Sounds fest. Wayne Henderson ''People Get Ready'' (Atlantic) *1969: The Freedom Sounds fest. Wayne Henderson ''Soul Sound System'' (Atlantic) *1977: ''At Big Daddies'' (ABC) *1977: ''Big Daddy's Place'' (ABC) *1978: ''Living on a Dream'' (Polydor) *1978: ''Step in to Our Life'' (Polydor)(with Roy Ayers) *1979: ''Emphasized'' (Polydor)(with Roy Ayers) *1980: R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jazz Crusaders At The Lighthouse
''The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse'' is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1962 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 3 stars.Track listing # "Congolese Sermon" (Wayne Henderson) - 6:50 # "Cathy's Dilemma" (Henderson) - 7:07 # "Blues for Ramona" (Stix Hooper) - 7:10 # "Weather Beat" (Joe Sample) - 7:05 # "Scandalizing" (Sample) - 7:12 # "Appointment in Ghana" () - 6:55 # "Penny Blue" (Sample) - 7:31 Bonus track on CD reis ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Powerhouse (The Jazz Crusaders Album)
''Powerhouse'' is a 1969 album by The Jazz Crusaders. It was their fourteenth album produced by Richard Bock for World Pacific Jazz Records. It was the first album in which Joe Sample played on the Fender Rhodes and according to Thom Jurek in his AllMusic review, would mark a turning point for the band. Track listing #" Promises, Promises" - (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) #"Love and Peace" - ( Arthur Adams) #"Hey Jude" - (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) #"Sting Ray" - ( Wayne Henderson) #"Fancy Dance" - (Joe Sample) #" Love is Blue" - ( André Popp, Blackburn, Pierre Cour) #"Cookie Man" - (Wayne Henderson) #"Upstairs" - (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) #"Fire Water" - ( Charles Williams) Personnel * Wayne Henderson – trombone * Wilton Felder – saxophone * Joe Sample – keyboards * Charles "Buster" Williams – bass * Stix Hooper Stix or STIX may refer to: People * Stix Hooper (born 1938), American jazz musician * Gary Stix, American journalist * Thomas H. Stix (1924–200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lighthouse '68
''Lighthouse '68'' is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1967 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 4 stars noting: "Feel is what dictates the material and its execution on this set, without unnecessary attention paid to crowd or recording apparatus. This is one fthe most intimate jazz shows captured on tape during the 1960s. It gives record buyers the sound of a band in full possession of their considerable capabilities, celebrating them in a relaxed environment, playing their own brand of grooved-out '60s jazz". ...
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Uh Huh (The Jazz Crusaders Album)
''Uh Huh'' is the ninth studio album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1967 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 4½ stars; in their review, Scott Yanow said: "Their brand of soulful hard bop (utilizing their distinctive tenor-trombone frontline) is heard throughout at its prime".Track listing # "Blue Monday" (Joe Sample) - 9:45 # "Night Theme" (Stix Hooper) - 7:36 # "Uh Huh" (Wayne Henderson) - 6:20 # "Air Waves" (Sample) - 9:21 # "Ice Water" (Henderson) - 6:41 # "Watts Happening" (Sample) - 5:12Personnel *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Festival Album
''The Festival Album'' is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1966 at Newport Jazz Festival in Rhode Island and Pacific Jazz Festival in California. It was released on the Pacific Jazz label that same year. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 3½ stars noting: "''The Festival Album'' was the only live set by the Jazz Crusaders not recorded at the Lighthouse. As such, it is a compilation of performances recorded at the Pacific Jazz and Newport Festivals in 1966".Track listing # "''Introduction'' - 0:34 # "Tranc ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Lighthouse '66
''Live at the Lighthouse '66'' is a live album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1966 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 4½ stars calling it: "An excellent set of primarily straight-ahead (but soulful) jazz".Track listing # "Aleluia" (Rey Guerra, ) - 6:00 # "Blues Up Tight" (Joe Sample) - 6:43 # " |
Chile Con Soul
''Chile Con Soul'', recorded in 1965 and released on the Pacific Jazz label, is the ninth album by The Jazz Crusaders. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 4 stars; in their review, Lindsay Planer said: "''Chile con Soul'' (1965) is one of the best examples of The Jazz Crusaders at one of the many musical pinnacles in their 30-plus year existence".Track listing # "Agua Dulce (Sweetwater)" (Joe Sample) - 5:25 # "Soul Bourgeoisie" (Hubert Laws) - 7:44 # "Ontem a Note" (Clare Fischer) - 4:19 # "Tough Talk" (Wayne Henderson, Stix Hooper) - 2:38 # "Tacos" (Laws) - 4:08 # "Latin Bit" ( |
The Thing (Jazz Crusaders Album)
''The Thing'' is the eighth album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1965 and released on the Pacific Jazz label. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 3 stars.Track listing # "The Thing" (Joe Sample) - 4:40 # "Sunset in Mountains" (Wayne Henderson) - 5:10 # "While the City Sleeps" (, ) - 3:35 # "White Cobra" (Sample) - 4:45 # "New Time Shuffle" (Sample) - 4 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stretchin' Out (The Jazz Crusaders Album)
''Stretchin' Out'' is the seventh album by The Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1964 (with one track from 1963) and released on the Pacific Jazz label. accessed January 12, 2016 Reception rated the album with 2 stars.Track listing # "Long John" (Wilton Felder) - 4:58 # "Robbin's Nest" (, ) - 5:45 # "You Are Only Sometimes Rain" (Wayne Hender ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les McCann
Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.Feather, Leonard, and Ira Gitler (2007), ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 448. Oxford University Press. Early life Les McCann was born in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. He grew up in a musical family of four, a brother and three sisters with most of McCann's family singing in church choirs. His father was a fan of jazz music and his mother was known to hum opera around the house. As a youth, he played the tuba and drums and performed in his school's marching band. As a pianist McCann, was largely self-taught. He explained he only received piano lessons for a few weeks as a six-year-old before his teacher died. Career During his service in the U.S. Navy, McCann won a singing contest which led to an appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. After leaving the Navy, McCann moved to California and played in his own trio. He declined an offer to work in Cannonball Adderley's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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