Genres: Big Band, Swing, Early Jazz Active: 30's, 40's, 50's Born: December 18, 1897 in Cuthbert, GA
Bennie Moten, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Tommy Dorsey, Erskine Hawkins, Jimmie Lunceford, Muhal Richard Abrams, Sun Ra, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet, Joe Robichaux, Benson Orchestra of Chicago, Lonnie Johnson, Teddy Bunn, Clarence Williams' Blue Five, Charlie Johnson Alberta Hunter, Robert "Sax" Crowder, The New Orleans Feetwarmers, Sonny White, Sun Ra, Sam Wooding & His Orchestra, John Kirby, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Gil Evans, Bobby Henderson, Glenn Miller, Vince Guaraldi, Billy Strayhorn, Charlie Barnet, LaVern Baker, Louis Prima, Jimmy Dorsey, Art Blakey |  |
Fletcher Henderson was very important to early jazz as leader of the first great jazz big band, as an arranger and composer in the 1930s, and as a masterful talent scout. Between 1923-1939, quite an all-star cast of top young black jazz musicians passed through his orchestra, including trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Joe Smith, Tommy Ladnier, Rex Stewart, Bobby Stark, Cootie Williams, Red Allen, and Roy Eldridge; trombonists Charlie Green, Benny Morton, Jimmy Harrison, Sandy Williams, J.C. Higginbottham, and Dickie Wells; clarinetist Buster Bailey; tenors Coleman Hawkins (1924-1934), Ben Webster, Lester Young (whose brief stint was not recorded), and Chu Berry; altoists Benny Carter, Russell Procope, and Hilton Jefferson; bassists John Kirby and Israel Crosby; drummers Kaiser Marshall, Walter Johnson, and Sid Catlett; guest pianist Fats Waller; and such arrangers as Don Redman, Benny Carter, Edgar Sampson, and Fletcher's younger brother Horace Henderson.
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Release: March 23, 2007
Label: Absord
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Release: January 13, 2005
Label: Ginkgo, Our World
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