Ernie Henry

Fats Navarro , Charlie Rouse , Ernie Henry and Tadd Dameron . Photo: William P. Gottlieb .

Ernie Henry (born September 3, 1926 in Brooklyn , New York City , † December 29, 1957 in New York ) was an American alto saxophonist .

Live and act

Ernie Henry played at the beginning of his career around 1947 for Tadd Dameron , 1948/49 for Dizzy Gillespie and from 1950 to 1951 for Illinois Jacquet . After he had retired from the jazz scene for a few years, Henry then worked with Thelonious Monk on his Brilliant Corners session in 1956 and again with Gillespie in 1957.

His Charlie Parker- influenced performance can be heard on records by Tadd Dameron, Kenny Dorham , Gillespie, Matthew Gee , Howard McGhee and Fats Navarro , Monk and James Moody . He also recorded three albums under his own name in 1956/57, on which Kenny Dorham, Kenny Drew , Wynton Kelly , Wilbur Ware , Art Taylor and Philly Joe Jones played.

Selected discography

• Presenting Ernie Henry ( OJC , 1956)
• Seven Standards and a Blues (OJC, 1957)
• Last Chorus (OJC, 1956–57) with Lee Morgan , Benny Golson , Cecil Payne , Melba Liston , Thelonious Monk, Oscar Pettiford , Paul Chambers , Max Roach

literature

• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide of Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
• Bielefeld Catalog Jazz 2001.