◇ image via WikipediaEddie Henderson
Eddie Henderson is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Those roots explain a lot about how Eddie Henderson arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Gary Bartz, Ronnie Foster, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes, Alphonse Mouzon and Freddie Hubbard, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Patrice Rushen, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around Eddie Henderson, reaching back through Miles Davis and forward to Patrice Rushen. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Eddie Henderson is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player. He came to prominence in the early 1970s as a member of pianist Herbie Hancock's Mwandishi band, going on to lead his own electric/fusion groups through the decade. Henderson earned his medical degree and worked a parallel career as a psychiatrist and musician, turning back to acoustic jazz by the 1990s.
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Eddie Henderson connections
Eddie Henderson grew out of Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong, shares an orbit with Gary Bartz, Ronnie Foster, Lonnie Liston Smith & The Cosmic Echoes and Alphonse Mouzon, went on to shape Patrice Rushen. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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