Henderson's majestic, regal and calibrated sound, with the addition of a good half-hour of unreleased material from the same session

This re-release also contains three bonus tracks that were not on the original An Evening With release: Visa, which reveals his bebop roots and mastery of the idiom, All the Things You Are that belongs among the album highlights, and Tenor Madness, also known as Royal Roost, Rue Chapel or Sportin Crowd. Their appearance here means we have the complete Joe Henderson Genoa Jazz Festival concert of June 7, 1987 for the first time on one album. The concert – and the recording of it – went exceptionally well. Henderson has been described as «one of the great chord change players of jazz history», and this aspect of his playing, that had its roots in bebop and Sonny Rollins’ approach to improvisation, is very apparent in the repertoire of songs he chose to play that night, each piece with interesting chord changes beginning with Thelonious Monk’s Ask Me Now. Although Henderson’s style grew out of Rollins’ sense of phrasing, rhythmically Henderson was a lot looser and built on Rollins’s style to create his own approach to improvisation.

Track Listing

• Ask Me Now
• Serenity
• Beatrice
• Invitation
• All The Things You Are
• Rue Chaptal / Royal Roost
• Visa

Additional Details

Label: Red Records

Genre: Jazz

Run Time: 79 mins

Release Date: 06/02/23

UPC: 8054154650262