Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner play ‘Ask Me Now’

One of the first songs I heard with Joe Henderson was ‘Song For My Father’ on the album with Horace Silver.  He plays the second solo on that song.  It starts out simple, builds, and has a good shape to it.

We had it at home and my teacher Todd Clickard also played it at lessons since we worked on that song.  Todd had taken lessons from Joe Henderson years ago in San Francisco and tells me stories aobut it sometimes.

Joe Henderson would take the train and never brougth his saxophone, but instead sat at the piano.  He was an accomplished piano player in addition to being a great saxophonist.  Joe Henderson taught Todd a solo that he played on the song ‘Relaxin at Camarillo’ which I only recently found at a CD store in Boston.  Not the same solo Todd learned though.