Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
Released - 1975
Recording and Session Information
Wally Heider Recording, San Francisco, CA, March & April, 1975
Eddie Henderson, trumpet, flugelhorn, cornet; Julian Priester, trombone; Bennie Maupin, tenor sax, saxello, bass clarinet; Bobby Hutcherson, marimba #3; George Duke, electric piano, Clavinet, synthesizer; Buster Williams, bass #6; Alphonso Johnson, electric bass #1-5,7; Harvey Mason, drums #1-5,7; Billy Hart, drums #6.
15725 Sunburst
15726 The Kumquat Kids
15727 Galaxy
15728 Explodition
15729 Involuntary Bliss
15730 We End In A Dream
15731 Hip Scotch
Track Listing
| Side One | ||
| Title | Author | Recording Date |
| Explodition | G. Duke | March/April 1975 |
| The Kumquat Kids | A. Johnson | March/April 1975 |
| Sunburst | E. Henderson | March/April 1975 |
| Side Two | ||
| Involuntary Bliss | A. Johnson | March/April 1975 |
| Hop Scotch | H. Mason | March/April 1975 |
| Galaxy | E. Henderson | March/April 1975 |
| We End In A Dream | B. Maupin | March/April 1975 |
Liner Notes
CD Reissue Liner Notes
Eddie Henderson is an accomplished man. He was born into a show business family in New York City on October 26, 1940. His father had sung with the leading gospel group The Charioteers and his mother and his aunt had been dancers at the Cotton Club. Eddie started playing trumpet at the age of nine and even received some private lessons from such family friends as Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis. When his family moved to San Francisco in 1954, the teenager began studying trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory. He also became an accomplished figure skater and was the first black to compete in the National Figure Skating Championships.
Because of a stint in the Air Force, Eddie did not start college until 1961. During the next seven years, he earned degrees in zoology and medicine, moonlighting all the while as u trumpeter with John Handy, Philly Joe Jones and others. He has divided most of his adult life into medicine and psychiatry by day and music by night.
Henderson's first big break in the music world came in 1970 when Herbie Hancock formed a sextet that included Bennie Maupin, Julian Priester, Buster Williams and Billy Hurt. They are represented by three albums (Mwandishi, Crossings and Sextant) which typify what the band was about. Hancock focused on free playing, various rhythms and unusual, rich textures and instrumental blends. In live performance, the sextet could play a single piece for 40 minutes, with explosive solos and uncanny interplay In 1973, after disbanding, they reunited for two albums (Realization and Inside Out) under Eddie's leadership on the Capricorn label.
After a half year with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Eddie Henderson resettled in San Francisco to establish himself there in medicine and music. In 1975 the opportunity to sign with Blue Note came along; Sunburst was his label debut. Although the Hancock sextet had a profound influence on Henderson's own projects (witness the presence of Priester and Maupin throughout this album with Williams and Hart on one tune), the electrified early '70s work of Miles Davis also had a strong impact. The result is music that is no less interesting than Herbie's group, but one that produces music with more focus and a stronger groove (Hancock himself made the same directional change in 1973 after disbanding this group to form Headhunters).
Subsequent albums for Blue Note and Capitol in the late '70s moved even further toward a fusion with R&B. But in the '80s, Eddie shifted back toward his first love, acoustic hard bop, and eventually relocated in New York City.
Regardless of style, idiom or setting, Eddie Henderson has always played fresh, brilliant ideas with beautiful control, technique and tone.
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