An Evening with Joe Henderson

1987 live album by Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden & Al Foster

Live album by

Joe Henderson, Charlie Haden & Al Foster

Released

1987

Recorded

July 7, 1987

Venue

Genova Jazz Festival Villa Imperiale, Italy

Genre

Jazz

Length

47:11

Label

Red
RR 215

Producer

Alberto Alberti and Sergio Veschi

Joe Henderson chronology

Akio with Joe Henderson
(1987)

An Evening with Joe Henderson
(1987)

The Standard Joe
(1991)

An Evening with Joe Henderson is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson recorded in Italy in 1987 and released on the Red label.^[1]^[2] It features Henderson in a trio with bassist Charlie Haden and drummer Al Foster.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states "Although Joe Henderson's pianoless trio recordings for Blue Note in 1985 received a fair amount of publicity, this similar date for the Italian Red label has been almost completely overlooked".^[3]

Track listing

Ask Me Now (Thelonious Monk) – 14:23
Serenity (Joe Henderson) – 8:44
Beatrice (Sam Rivers) – 10:44
Invitation (Bronisław Kaper) – 13:20

Three additional tracks from the concert were made available for purchase as digital downloads in 2009 under the title More From An Evening With Joe Henderson. They are as follows:

Visa (Charlie Parker)
Rue Chaptal (also known as "Royal Roost" and "Tenor Madness" (Fats Navarro, Kenny Clarke)
All the Things You Are (Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II)

Personnel

References

^ Red Records discography Archived 2017-04-05 at the Wayback Machine accessed April 4, 2017
^ Joe Henderson discography accessed April 4, 2017
^ ^a ^b Yanow, Scott. An Evening with Joe Henderson – Review at AllMusic. Retrieved April 4, 2017.
^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 689. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.