Eddie Henderson

Edward Jackson "Eddie" Henderson (born October 26, 1940 in New York City ) is an American trumpeter (also flugelhorn ) of modern jazz , who is also active as a doctor and psychiatrist.

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Henderson, whose mother was the dance partner of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the Cotton Club review and whose father ran a band, grew up in a household where musicians like Louis Armstrong , Duke Ellington , Fats Waller and Miles Davis frequented. At the age of nine he learned to play the trumpet and studied this instrument and music theory at the conservatory from 1954 to 1957. After a few years in the army, he studied zoology at the University of California from 1961 to 1964 , then medicine at Howard University until 1968 , then he played with John Handy and Philly Joe Jones . From 1970 to 1973 he was a member of the Herbie Hancock sextet , with whom he recorded fusion albums such as "Mwandishi" or "Sextant"; He also played with Miroslav Vitouš ("Infinite Search"), Joe Henderson ("Inside Out"), Pharoah Sanders , Mike Nock and Charles Earland . In 1973 he became a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for six months . He then played with Julian Priester , Elvin Jones , Billy Harper , Kenny Barron , Mulgrew Miller and again and again with Hancock, but was also active as a general practitioner and psychiatrist for a time (roughly between 1975 and 1985 in San Francisco ) . Since the mid-1990s he has been leading his own groups again, with which he regularly presents his own records. He also played with Richard Davis , McCoy Tyner , Bertha Hope , Gary Bartz and the Mingus Big Band . Since 2007 he has been working with the all-star formation The Cookers .

Wolf Kampmann (Ed.), With the assistance of Ekkehard Jost : Reclams Jazzlexikon . Reclam, Stuttgart 2003, ISBN 3-15-010528-5 .
Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .

personal data
SURNAME	Henderson, Eddie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Henderson, Edward Jackson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American jazz trumpeter and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 26, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	new York