{"id":1123,"date":"2023-09-16T21:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T21:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smokesessionsrecords.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1123"},"modified":"2023-11-15T20:18:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T20:18:08","slug":"witness-to-history","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/smokesessionsrecords.com\/shop\/albums\/witness-to-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Witness to History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trumpet legend <strong>Dr. Eddie Henderson<\/strong> celebrates the 50<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of his debut album as a leader, 1973\u2019s <em>Realization,<\/em> with the exhilarating new release <strong><em>Witness to History. <\/em><\/strong>The stellar quintet on this album bridges that half-century of music: lifelong collaborator <strong>George Cables <\/strong>returns once again to the piano bench. Henderson\u2019s colleague in The Cookers, alto saxophonist <strong>Donald Harrison<\/strong>, and his more recent collaborator, bassist <strong>Gerald Cannon<\/strong>, have also appeared on the trumpeter\u2019s recent string of releases for Smoke Sessions. They\u2019re joined by legendary drummer <strong>Lenny White<\/strong>, who has reunited with Henderson in the studio for the first time since <em>Realization <\/em>50 years ago).<\/p>\n<p>Henderson is also the subject of an upcoming PBS documentary <em>Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius,<\/em> set to arrive in February 2024 that charts his fascinating life in three disparate endeavors: as a medical doctor, as a pioneering figure skater, and, of course, as a legendary jazz musician.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy first trumpet teacher, way back in 1949, was Louis Armstrong,\u201d recalls Henderson, \u201cFrom that point on, I witnessed the evolution in music through Miles Davis, Freddie Hubbard, Lee Morgan, Booker Little, Woody Shaw, John Coltrane, up to the present. I lived through the turmoil of the \u201960s and \u201970s and the rise of Black Power in this country. So, I have been a witness to history, and inevitably that rubbed off on me musically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Witness To History<\/em> traces Eddie Henderson\u2019s evolution through a remarkable span of time, but it\u2019s abundantly clear that he\u2019s done more than watch from the sidelines as history unfolds. Dr. Henderson has made his own indelible mark on history, and this vital music reveals that he\u2019s far from writing his final chapter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trumpet legend Dr. Eddie Henderson celebrates the 50th anniversary of his debut album as a leader, 1973\u2019s Realization, with the exhilarating new release Witness to History. The stellar quintet on this album bridges that half-century of music: lifelong collaborator George Cables returns once again to the piano bench. 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