Archived concerts
Eddie Henderson Quartet
Pizza Express Dean Street
20:30, 24 October 2011
- Address
- 10 Dean Street, Soho, London W1D 3RW
- Telephone
- 0845 6027 017
- Website
- Visit website
- Tickets
- £17.50
- Performers
- Eddie Henderson, Trumpet
- Tim Lapthorn, Piano
- Arnie Somogyi, Bass
- Stephen Keogh, Drums
Eddie Henderson is one of today's top and most original jazz trumpet players. Born in New York City in 1940, his father sang with the Charioteers, and his mother danced as one of the Brown twins at the Cotton club. Louis Armstrong gave Eddie his first few trumpet lessons at the age of nine. Eddie moved with his family to San Francisco when he was 14 years old. He studied at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1954 to '56. Around 1956, Miles Davis was guest at Eddie Henderson's home during a Black Hawk Jazz Club gig and was impressed with Eddie's ability to perform his famous "Sketches of Spain" without a fluff but encouraged Henderson to seek his own originality.
Eddie first got worldwide recognition for his jazz-trumpet playing from the popular recordings he made with Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi group during the early '70s. other jazz perfomers he has played with include Pharoah Sanders, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Max Roach, Jackie McClean, Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson etc. Eddie has been on the faculty at Juillard school of music since 2007.
Other jazz performers Eddie has played with include Pharoah Sanders, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Max Roach, Jackie McClean, Dexter Gordon, Roy Haynes, Joe Henderson etc.
