Bill Henderson (pianist)

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William Henderson III (right) with Pharoah Sanders (Altes Pfandhaus Köln, 2008)

William Sydney “Bill” Henderson III (* around 1945) is an American jazz , funk and fusion musician ( piano , keyboard ).

Live and act

Henderson played in the mid-1960s in the soul-jazz band The Afro Blues Quintet Plus One with vibraphonist Joe DeAguero and in Los Angeles with Hugh Masekela . In the early 1970s he took part in the recordings of Roy Ayers , Henry Franklin , Harold Land ( A New Shade of Blue ), Bobby Hutcherson , Donald Byrd , Moacir Santos , and the John Carter / Bobby Bradford Quartet ( Secrets , 1973) . In the following decades, Henderson worked mainly with Pharoah Sanders , to be heard on albums such as Shukuru (1981), Oh Lord, Let Me Do No Wrong (1987), Message from Home (1995) or Save Our Children (1998), and also with Eddie Harris , Billy Higgins , George Bohanon and Thomas Tedesco . In 1987 he recorded the album A Prayer Before Dawn (Theresa) with Pharoah Sanders . His album Solo Piano was released in 2000. In 2003 he toured Japan with Sanders, and in 2007 the two performed as a duo at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival . In the field of jazz he was involved in over 40 recording sessions between 1965 and 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed December 19, 2017)
  2. ↑ Solo piano at Allmusic (English)
  3. ↑ The Live Set (ABC)
personal data
SURNAME Henderson, Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henderson, William Sydney III
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz, funk, and fusion musician
DATE OF BIRTH around 1945