if there's 80 minutes of extra music, I haven't said anything except for the following: due to his years of putting in the good work at Mosaic and BN. after all those years, I read this set as Michael Cuscuna's way of saying "mission accomplished, goodbye", he reissues a chunk of prime BN albums - and it turns out that none of it is rare and sought after anymore. No idea about other material of any kind, released or unreleased.įor the moment, that is my expectation as well (JH as a leader + the KDJH Quintet on BN, nothing new.). My conceptual guess is that they're not including sideman dates in general, but putting the Dorhams in there because he and Joe were effectively co-leaders in that period, and because the official # of Joe leader dates would be a bit small to justify a standard Mosaic box set. I didn't ask about the parameters of the set in my email (which was primarily a lobbying attempt for Mark to write the booklet notes, but turns out they've already been done by Bob Blumenthal). but that's a holy grail too far, I'm sure. What would really be awesome would be a rehearsal session or some other recording of the Dorham-Henderson 1966 big band. Dorham's on three of the five Blue Note Henderson albums iirc. The 1963 idea is interesting! Wouldn't be surprised if Mosaic's planning to fold the two Dorham leader dates ( Una Mas and Trompeta Toccata) w/Joe into the set, if it's a Joe Henderson 1963-66 Blue Note box, on the grounds that he and Kenny worked together so much during that period. Or maybe some other subset of his collective work from this period IMHO, that would be a very interesting set based on the artists and titles represented 10 in all. Could there be that much unreleased material or could this be filled with endless alternate takes?Īlso wondering if they might do something like the Complete 1963 Blue Note recordings of Joe Henderson. I have not done the math relative to consolidating multiple LPs onto a single CDs, but even 5 individual CDs doesn't seem to jibe with their current practice. While that might make a nice LP set, in terms of CDs is far short of what has become the more common format of release 7+ CD sets. There are only 5 Joe Henderson albums from 1963 - 1966. (PS: my CD copies of most of these albums are a bit scattered at the moment, or else I’d look for “so-n-so appears courtesy of.” type language in the liners for said albums - in terms of a few of my “date-related” and “who-was-under-contract-to-who” type questions.) What other related questions am I not thinking of? Was Joe still under contract with BN while The Real McCoy was being recorded? The Real McCoy (BN) was recorded in April ‘67 - and The Kicker (MS) in Aug ‘67.
I think of Joe as being one of less than a dozen “quintessential” Blue Note artists - and yet his total time under contract w/ BN was ~4 years, 4.5 years tops. Looking again just now, the span of time between the recording dates of Joe’s five leader-dates for BN was about a week less than 2 years and 8 months (early June ‘63 thru late Jan ‘66). Joe had such a phenomenal record of sideman appearances on BN, were they stingy giving him enough leader-dates? (Or enough promotion?) Was that perhaps in exchange for Herbie appearing on Joe’s Power To The People that same year? (Assuming Herbie was still under contract to BN at the time - the two albums were recorded almost exactly 1 month apart, in April and May ‘69 - Herbie’s album being the one recorded first). Then Joe came back for one (just one) BN session after his first two MS albums - namely The Prisoner (‘69). Some questions. How did Joe come to pull away from Blue Note? / sign with Milestone (MS)? - and why specifically *WHEN* he did? Did he leave BN, and then (after he was no longer under contract to BN), was he then sought after by MS? *OR* - did MS ‘woo’ him away from BN?
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