Rosa Cafe - Wayne Henderson: Featured on The Very Best of Café Jazz ... celebrating 400 programs : Edition 400 - March 26th, 2006
The story more or less begins in Houston Texas, in the mid 50s. It was during this period that Wayne Henderson played regularly with Wilton Felder, Joe Sample, & Stix Hooper. Hubert Laws & Henry Wilson rounded out the combo, then known as the Modern Jazz Sextet. By 1961, after changing a couple of personnel, the group moved to Los Angeles & began performing as The Jazz Crusaders. They became renowned for their distinctive front line, one that featured the duelling sounds of Henderson's trombone & Felder's tenor sax as well as for their gritty style of hard bop. In 1971, the group dropped jazz from their name. This change signalled a shift of sorts to a more R&B-oriented style ... continue reading.