Page One

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Page One
Studio album by Joe Henderson

Publication
(s)

1963

Label (s) Blue note

Format (s)

LP, CD

Genre (s)

jazz

Title (number)

6th

running time

41:54

occupation

production

Alfred Lion

Studio (s)

Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs , New Jersey

chronology
- Page One Our Thing
(1963)

Page One is a jazz album by Joe Henderson . It was recorded at Englewood Cliffs on June 3, 1963 and released on Blue Note Records in 1963 .

The album

Page One was the debut album by tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, who had only come to New York in late summer 1962 after his discharge from the US Army. The trumpeter Kenny Dorham introduced him to the local jazz scene and made him a member of his quintet. In April 1963, the Blue Note album Una Mas with Henderson, Butch Warren , Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams was created under Dorham's direction . On June 3, 1963, the musicians went into the studio in a similar line-up with drummer Pete LaRoca and pianist McCoy Tyner , which was not listed on the LP cover at the time for reasons of contract.

Since the June session under Henderson's direction was very successful, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff preferred to publish the material and brought Page One first to the market; it became - not least because of the title "Blue Bossa" - one of the label's most successful albums and is now one of the classic albums of this era. In total, the Dorham / Henderson quintet recorded five albums.

The best- known tracks on the album were the two bossa nova compositions Dorhams and Hendersons, the title track “Blue Bossa” and “Recorda Me” (Portuguese for “think of me”), which the saxophonist wrote in 1955 after finishing high school. "Recorda Me" combines the flowing bossa nova feeling with jazz techniques, wrote Kenny Dorham in the liner notes . Henderson resumed this connection on his 1995 Jobim album Double Rainbow . "Jinrikisha", also a Henderson composition, is named after a demonic Chinese card and is played by the band at a medium tempo. Tyner uses sparing chordal accents.

Joe Henderson

In “La Mesha” Henderson “explored melody in a dramatic way; within the phrases of the melody it reveals powerful solos, a kind of mélange of theme and variations, ”wrote Zan Stewart. Henderson's blues “Out of the Night”, written as early as 1957, “uses phrases with long notes and a sense of space by building up tension that is only released with the faster, denser passages.” Stewart also emphasizes the ease of Tyner's piano playing , compared to the intensity of his later work. The piece ends with a short solo Tyners and a unison presentation of the theme by the two winds. Dorham's song "Blue Bossa" became one of Joe Henderson's most recognizable tracks and a jazz standard interpreted by musicians such as Jay Jay Johnson , Kenny Burrell , Tommy Flanagan , Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin, as well as Ray Brown and Ernestine Anderson .

Rating of the album

McCoy Tyner (1973)

Richard Cook and Brian Morton wrote in 2001 in their appraisal of the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz , which they awarded the highest rating of four stars: Joe Henderson is always in the middle of a great solo. He is a thematic player who works his way through the structures of the compositions with methodical intensity; but he's also a masterful licks player who has a seemingly endless supply of phrases to use to meet the challenge of any post-bop session. This gives his best improvisations the balance between surprise, immediacy and coherence that few saxophonists have. With the album Page One everything, even the thrown blues homestretch, is expressively executed. Tyner, Warren and LaRoca were a rhythm group that seldom played with each other, but harmonized very well here, as the (otherwise) incalculable Dorham does.

The titles

  • Joe Henderson / Kenny Dorham Quintet - Page One (Blue Note BLP 4140 and BST 84140)
  1. "Blue Bossa" (Kenny Dorham) - 8:03
  2. "La Mesha" (Dorham) - 9:10
  3. "Homestretch" - 4:15
  4. "Recorda Me" - 6:03
  5. "Jinrikisha" - 7:24
  6. "Out of the Night" - 7:23

All other compositions are by Joe Henderson. The liner notes to the original album Kenny Dorham wrote.

Discographic notes

The album was reissued in 2003 as part of The Rudy Van Gelder Edition series, with new liner notes from Bob Blumenthal .

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1962 appeared according to All Music Guide on Capitol Records the album You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To by Joe Henderson; however, the discographies on Henderson ( http://www.Jazzdisco.org and http://www.jazzdiscography.com ) make no mention of this album. See All Music Guide
  2. ↑ Tyner was with Impulse at the time ! Records under contract; on the front cover it said "Joe Henderson - Page One - Kenny Dorham, Butch Warren, Pete LaRoca / etc".
  3. ↑ cit. after Zan Stewart, liner notes.