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When I finally saw Joe live....

Posted by D Harvey (M) on March 28, 2021 at 07:44:28

In Reply to: Joe Henderson.... posted by andy evans on March 28, 2021 at 01:09:13:

....I was amazed to hear how soft and gentle his sound actually was. His sound is quite variable and yes, mostly "hard" on the 60's BN sides, but I suspect this is the product of BN's house sonics more than anything else. His real sound, at least by the time I heard him, was more like what you hear on his Lush Life album--almost a whisper of a sound. The State of the Tenor records capture this sound pretty well too, as do some of the 70's era sides I've heard. In the video here I hear all of the above. The sound is more on the hard side when he's overblowing the horn, but there's a lot of the softer sound in evidence too.

I'm curious what our resident saxmen might have to say....did Joe consciously change his approach at some point or was he sonically misrepresented more than other tenor players typically were on record? The small sound I heard in concert would seem to foster that kind of thing, and the super close-up, almost unreal recorded sound on Lush Life seems to me a hint as to why that may be.

Whatever the case, I've never ever been prone to avoiding listening to Joe Henderson. :-)

dh

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