tenor sax Archives - JAZZ IMPRESSIONS

Joe Henderson – Jinrikisha

All roads lead to Joe here on Jazz Impressions, as we segue from Pete La Roca’s Basra (1965) to another Blue Note debut as leader, which also features La Roca on drums: Joe Henderson’s Page One (1963).

Joe Henderson – Power To The People

From two great tenor sax players to another, today’s post focusses on Joe Henderson’s politically titled track ‘Power To The People’ from his album of the same name, released on Milestone in 1969. Mainly compromised of Henderson originals, this album was the first in a string of political albums Henderson released in the late 60s and early 70s which were inspired by an increased awareness of black issues and the Black Power movement which reached its peak at the beginning of the 70s.

Archie Shepp – Le Matin des Noire

1965 was a busy year for the young Bobby Hutcherson, releasing his first album as leader (Blue Note’s Dialogue) and joining the Archie Shepp Quartet, a group at the vanguard of the “New Thing”. Free jazz relinquished the restrictions of song form in order to better express oneself musically, and for Shepp, politically.

Joe Henderson – Fire

The same year as Pharoah Sanders’ Elevation (1974), saxophonist Joe Henderson enlisted that record’s violinist (Michael White) and percussionist (Kenneth Nash) for an ambitious, conceptual collaboration with the great Alice Coltrane.

Pharoah Sanders – Greeting To Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner)

To mark the recent passing of pianist McCoy Tyner, the subject of our last post, the track for today is ‘Greeting To Saud (Brother McCoy Tyner)’ from the live album Elevation by tenor saxophonist Pharoah Sanders, released in 1974 on Impulse! records.