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99% positive that Joe's in all three of these clips, but no soloing from Joe (again, drat! ). Thad Jones & Mel Lewis - The Groove Merchant (1968) Thad Jones & Mel Lewis - Once Around (1968) and this clip is entirely different than the first one (different concert)... "Groove Merchant" - Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra 1969 Edit: Joe is positively ID'ed in the last clip, as is the entire reed section.

OK, this doesn't fit my "pre-1975" goal, but here's footage of 8(!) tunes by Joe, from 1977. I think this group never recorded either, come to think of it... Steve Erquiaga - guitar; Ratzo Harris - bass; Mike Hyman - drums >>>> Joe Henderson Quartet Part (1 of 8) 1977 <<<< This link goes to a Youtube play-list that should automatically play all 8 tunes in sequence.

Here's some footage (from the same Youtube user), from I'm guessing 1973(?) - though still no solo from Joe ( ). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWUKVBjXUWE Can anybody find ANY other "pre-1975"-era Joe Henderson footage??

Saw a used CD in the classical section years ago in Kansas City, with this composer's name on the spine... Franz Schuberth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qywMA_vrvsc Alternate upload of the same footage: horace silver 5 antibes feat. joe henderson roger humphries No solo from Joe ( ), but is there any other footage from this gig out there?? But it does include a great solo from Carmell Jones!! - and footage of him is not easy to find.

Holly crap, Andrew Hill in 1956!

Actually, a ton of interesting photos there. Did a search on Larry Young, and this came up! - certainly one I'd not seen before... "Larry Young on TV special with The Tony Williams Lifetime from Jazzhouse Montmartre Copenhagen, Denmark, June 1971." Edit: in case the image doesn't come through, here's another link.

From the article... Not sure, but I think there's a good chance that April 27th discussion may turn up here: http://press.org/news-multimedia/video.

Never a more fitting composer to get the 'multiple image' treatment.

That Greg Osby disc (Symbols of Light) is fantastic, one of my two or three favorite Osby discs - well worth checking out.

Swedish or Norwegian?

Since the books are all already sold, just give another update stating that the "bboks" are also all sold, and that should about cover it.

Most memorable, roughly in chronological order: Either/Orchestra (my very first ever jazz concert, circa 1990, in a club in my college town of 35,000) Sun Ra Arkestra 3 or 4 times (including once with Sun Ra at The Cubby Bear in Chicago in 1991, getting to meet June Tyson and other Arkestra members between sets -- and then hearing the Arkestra (sans Ra) 2 or 3 times in Kansas City in the late 90's) Joe Henderson (twice!) Dave Holland Quintet (twice) Jackie McLean Bobby Hutcherson Greg Osby with Jason Moran (3 times) Herbie Hancock & Wayne Shorter (that dreaded 'duo' tour), then later Herbie w/ Gary Thomas (much better! - and Thomas is a favorite), and Wayne's current quartet (OMG!) Brad Meldau (trio once, and also solo recently) Chick Corea playing his own piano concert (with the Kansas City symphony) John Hicks in Bobby Watson's group in Kansas City once Andrew Hill! Sam Rivers! Grachan Moncur playing recently, backed by those AMAZING Mark Masters octet charts (heaven!) Billy Harper & Eddie Henderson on the same gig. I'm sure I'm forgetting a few others of importance, but those are the first ones that come to mind.

Just noticed a link to the score in the Youtube description. HERE (pdf). My favorite is the "Pierrot Lunaire" quote.

Oh, 200, maybe 300? - I'm just guessing. That includes a ton of local musicians. My interest dates back about 20 years, and I'm sure I've been to 15 or 20 gigs per year most years since about 1994. Oh, hell, I just remembered that my very first year in Kansas City -- I practically LIVED at this one jazz club in Westport (The Drum Room, circa 1994-96). I must have seen 300 gigs alone over that two-year period (before they closed). Seriously. I was in there practically every night of the week, even if only for an hour sometime in the evening (though often longer). They had pool tables, and I could play and listen to live jazz at the same time -- I was in heaven!! So you'd better up my estimate to at least 400.

Totally!! Missed this thread the first time around, but glad I stumbled on it today. Total riot.

Oh yeah? My link (I'm thinking, if only they could silence the shoes too.)

I can't remember if it was ASCAP or BMI, but 20-ish years ago I worked about half-time, on-air at a top-40 FM station in my college town (in the middle of nowhere, IL). Once or twice a year, for a full week, we had to log every single piece of music played on-air (everything, including music beds, everything). (With the permission of the MD, since he was signing off on all the logs), I religiously played Sun Ra under all my weather forcasts (often tunes off the "Other Voices, Other Blues" Horo double-LP I had) -- simply to log some Sun Ra, in the vague hopes I could push a couple dollars his way (and more so, just to make the ASCAP or BMI people have to look up some Sun Ra). True story.

I spent about 5-minutes spinning a copy of Monuments in a used record store here in DC on Sunday. Dropped the needle on all of the tracks on side one, and I couldn't bring myself to flip the disc. The 'rap' Jim mentioned way up earlier in this thread, is the 2nd Youtube clip down below...

On several of those early Blue Mitchel Blue Note dates, often Junior sounds like an absolute dead ringer for Joe (or the other way around, if you prefer). And I don't say it as a criticism; Cook is one of the things I like best about those Mitchel BN dates. PS: More footage from the same source, which is now a commercially available DVD!

I'm sure probably several of you have seen this before, but this Youtube clip was entirely new to me until just a few minutes ago... Duke Ellington Meets Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite

I love those late, late 60's / early 70's Mal trio things that just dig in with an off-kilter riff, and almost never give up (until they finally do). Just love 'em!

It's not tons of space in all of Joe's solos, but I seem to remember he pepper's a fair number of his solos with space here and there (for longer than you might have been expecting) amid what is otherwise (arguably) a flurry of notes. Or at least that's how I remember hearing Joe's playing. But, he's definitely not a "minimalistic" continuously. Although, come to think of it, he is rather fond of taking a small cell and repeating it over and over in a sort of "minimalistic" way -- so I think he fits in that regard too (in the "classical music" sense/definition of Minimalism).

I think Joe Henderson used a fair bit of space in his solos, at times. What do you guys think? - should Joe be included here? - or am I just being spacey? Oh, and Miles -- no doubts there.

My mother was a huge fan of Dark Shadows -- which she only saw because, when I was born (in early 1969), she was out of the workforce for about 5 years (when it ran) until I was in school. I remember seeing it in reruns about 15 years later (mid-80's), maybe on PBS come to think of it, and her going out of her way to watch it then (I think it ran practically at Midnight, or no earlier than 11pm at least). Not sure if I'll go see the movie, but I do have an urge to see some of the original episodes again.