Be Cool, by Eddie Henderson

Be Cool

by Eddie Henderson

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1.	Smoke Screen 04:37	info	buy track
2.	Be Cool 05:01	info	buy track
3.	After You've Gone 07:04	info	buy track
4.	Loft Funk 06:59	info	buy track
5.	Fran Dance 06:25	info	buy track
6.	The Moontrane 05:26	lyrics	buy track
"The Moontrane" Woody Shaw - composer Eddie Henderson - trumpet Donald Harrison - alto saxophone Kenny Barron - piano Essiet Essiet - bass Mike Clark - drums
7.	Naima 07:07	info	buy track
8.	The Sand Castle Head Hunter 06:44	info	buy track
9.	Nightride 08:17	info	buy track
10.	Toys 06:37	info	buy track
11.	Easy Living 05:44	info	buy track
12.	Dla Juzi 06:55	info	buy track

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"With its sweet mix ballads and bop, BE COOL proves to be, for the moment, Henderson's best."
-- Mike Jurkovic, All About Jazz, 7 July 2018

"A textbook on how a band should, and could sound if everyone is on the right page and attitude...This album is a timeless work of art. Hang it up on your wall!"
-- George W. Harris, Jazz Weekly, 21 May 2018

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Before he walks out the door on his way to a gig, Eddie Henderson always gets two words of advice from his wife: be cool. The legendary trumpeter has taken that mantra to heart with his album "Be Cool," which shows just how hot cool can get.

Of course, if you're going to be cool it helps to surround yourself with the coolest of the cool, and Henderson has done just that: his smokin' quintet also features saxophonist Donald Harrison, pianist Kenny Barron, bassist Essiet Essiet, and drummer Mike Clark. Together, the band conjures smoldering funk, lush ballads, broad-shouldered swing, and bristling bop -- in all, a prismatic display of the many facets of cool.

Henderson asks the same of his sidemen; hence, Barron's uncharacteristically funky "Smoke Screen," which opens the album on a lively note. "Usually you don't hear Kenny playing funky like that," Henderson says. "He's a consummate pianist and a consummate trio player, but he really rose to the occasion on this Horace Silver-type tune."

From now on, Eddie Henderson has a ready response whenever his wife chimes in with her regular reminder. With scintillating interpersonal chemistry, tasteful but captivating soloing, and a stellar melodic sense, one spin of this album is enough to prove that Henderson has taken the words "Be Cool" deeply to heart.

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released May 4, 2018

Eddie Henderson - trumpet
Donald Harrison - alto saxophone
Kenny Barron - piano
Essiet Essiet - bass
Mike Clark - drums

Recorded Live on October 31, 2017
at Sear Sound Studio C, New York City

Produced by Paul Stache
Associate Producer: Damon Smith
Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Christopher Allen
Studio Assistant: Grant Valentine
Photography by Jimmy and Dena Katz
Performance photo by Natsuko Henderson
Liner Notes by Nate Chinen
Design by Damon Smith and Paul Stache

Kenny Barron appears courtesy of Impulse!

Executive Producers: Frank Christopher & Paul Stache

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Eddie Henderson New York, New York

Eddie Henderson is an iconic jazz trumpeter who balanced careers in medicine and music before Herbie Hancock, Art Blakey, Pharoah Sanders and others tipped the scales for music. He plays with a hauntingly beautiful sound and is a master melodicist. His five-decade-plus career includes classic fusion recordings from the 1970s, as well as many electrifying acoustic dates in more recent decades. ... more

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