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Occupation

Page One is a jazz album by Joe Henderson, recorded in Englewood Cliffs on June 3, 1963, published in 1963 on Blue Note Records.

The album

Page One was the debut album of tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, who had come in late summer 1962, after his discharge from the U.S. Army to New York. The trumpeter Kenny Dorham introduced him to the local jazz scene and made ​​him a member of his quintet. In April 1963 Dorhams line was the Blue Note album Una Mas with Henderson, Butch Warren, Herbie Hancock and Tony Williams. On 3 June 1963, the musicians went in a similar occupation with drummer Pete Laroca and pianist McCoy Tyner into the studio, which was not listed in the contract on the grounds that time LP cover

Since the June session was very successful under Henderson's leadership, Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff moved before the publication of the material and brought first Page One on the market; it was - not least by the title " Blue Bossa " - the most successful albums of the label and is now one of the classic albums of that era. Overall, the Dorham / Henderson Quintet recorded five albums.

The best-known title of the album were the two bossa nova compositions Dorhams and Henderson, the title track " Blue Bossa " and " Recorda Me" ( Portuguese " remember me " ), the saxophonist wrote in 1955 after the end of his high school years. " Recorda Me " connect the fluidity of the bossa nova feel with jazz techniques, Kenny Dorham wrote in the liner notes. On his Jobim album Double Rainbow 1995 Henderson took this connection again. " Auto Rickshaw ", also a Henderson composition, is named after a demonic Chinese map and is played by the band in the mid- tempo. Tyner is economical chordal accents.

In " La Mesha " explored Henderson " in a dramatic way the melody; within the phrases of the melody he reveals powerful solos, a sort of blend of theme and variations on this, " Zan Stewart wrote. Henderson's Blues " Out of the Night ", originally written in 1957, "used phrases with extensive notes and a keen sense of space by building up tension that is mined only with the faster, denser passages. " Stewart also emphasizes the ease of piano game Tyner compared with the intensity of his later work. The piece ends with a short solo Tyner and a unison presentation of the topic by the two blowers. Dorhams title " Blue Bossa " became one of the most famous titles Joe Henderson and a jazz standard, the learned interpretations by musicians such as Jay Jay Johnson, Kenny Burrell, Tommy Flanagan, Chick Corea and Bobby McFerrin as well as Ray Brown and Ernestine Anderson.

Album Review

Richard Cook and Brian Morton wrote in 2001 in its assessment of the album in the Penguin Guide to Jazz, they distinguished the highest rating of four stars: Joe Henderson is always in the middle of a great solo. He is a themed player who worked with methodical intensity by the structures of the compositions; but he is also a masterful licks player who Concerning operative over a seemingly endless supply of phrases with which he met the challenge of any post -bop session. This gives his best improvisations the balance between surprise, immediacy and consistency, have the few saxophonists. In the album Page One is simply everything, even running the thrown Blues Home Stretch expressive. Tyner, Warren and Laroca were a rhythm section, although they rarely played together, but here very good décor in as (otherwise ) do also the incalculable Dorham.

The title

  • Joe Henderson / Kenny Dorham Quintet - Page One ( Blue Note BLP 4140 and BST 84140 )

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

Disco Graphical Notes

The album was reissued in 2003 in the series The Rudy Van Gelder Edition, with new liner notes by Bob Blumenthal.

Swell

  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD 6th edition. ISBN 0-14-051521-6
  • Bob Blumenthal: liner notes reissue 2006
  • Kenny Dorham, original liner notes in 1963.
  • Zan Stewart, liner notes of the Blue Note album Joe Henderson - Ballads & Blues ( 1997).
Record label Genre Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey Antônio Carlos Jobim Jazzstandard Richard Cook (journalist) Capitol Records Impulse! Records
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