Joe Henderson Quintet
The Lighthouse
Hermosa Beach,
Los Angeles, California, U.S.A. (1977?)
Jazz Alive recorded broadcast
performance quality: A
recording quality: A
source: FM broadcast master reel
lineage: Sansui 8 reciever > reel deck (a very good one) > Maxell UD 7" reel @ 3 3/4 ips > soundforge 4.5 > FLAC 6
Joe Henderson- tenor sax
George Cables- piano
Steve Erquiaga- guitar
Ratso Harris- bass
Michael Hyman- drums
comments:
It's 2 songs, each about half an hour. Nat Adderley and his group were the second half of this
broadcast. I didn't get all of that, and only the Joe Henderson performance is included in here.
but I got all of this (except a few words of the radio announcer introduction in the beginning).
It's all recorded on one side of 7" reel. I don't know the exact date since the reel ran out
before the credits at the end of the program. If anyone else out there recorded this program,
maybe they could let us know date (and/or the song titles?) The performance and sound quality
of this is very nice. I haven't played this reel in decades. Reels are such a pain in the neck
to play, I almost never play them, except to digitize. This is the 1st digital transfer or
upload of this recording, which I found while piecing together the 78 NYE Rassaan Roland Kirk
Memorial Jazz Fest broadcast, which also has some of Joe Henderson's saxwork in it. (This is
much better recording quality than the 1st set of that is from my source.)
I'm pretty sure this is 1977 because that was when I first heard of "Jazz Alive", a weekly
concert series of jazz from many places carried on U.S.A National Public Radio. This was one
of the first few recordings I made from it, and Billy Taylor (a jazz pianist) started hosting
this series, I believe in 1978. The radio host for this concert is Leonard Feather. I only have
a few of those shows.
Do not sell this recording.
Trade freely and losslessly.
Keep National Public Radio Public.
