Joe Henderson - Take the A Train

Joe Henderson - tenor
Bheki Mseleku - piano
George Mraz - bas
Al Foster - drums

[@RodneyBrown1979]

Joe is one of if not the most under appreciated tenor players in history. This man swings like no other.

[@LedRocker11]

aw man i cant get enough of this tone quality

[@pfaessel1]

My favorite version of this tune...I've heard other artists, including Duke Ellington's versions, which are great, but this tops the list. Such a wealth of ideas...just great!

[@giovannisugonatoli]

i've seen joe with this quartet some years ago in verona. And know him,he was truly a gentleman

[@Bronkeykong]

Joe kills this tune! So many people blow it off as "an easy middle school tune" but Joe reminds us of the mastery of Billy Strayhorn! What an inspiration!

[@SamFromartz]

George Mraz, Al Foster and Joe Henderson -- this really was one of the best trios in jazz at this time. I luckily got to see them on occasion and the playing was at such a consistent high level. This also has the welcome presence of Bheki Mseleku, the South African pianist who fits right in.

[@jacobeid]

As always Joe is on fire. Joe was one of the most underrated tenor players in jazz history. Overshadowed by the greats such as Coltrane and Dex, listening to Henderson provides us with a completely different and unique voice on the tenor saxophone. Really great clip, thank you.

[@wfberan]

Great player, playing a great song...Joe Henderson IS the spirit of jazz music.

[@xnophloglas]

It is necessary and wise to insist that this is the true classic, the classic trumpets. Brings back memories of smoky coffee houses with beatniks and Miles David.

[@mduduma]

I was lucky to get lessons from him in South Africa, he's got a very unique style of playing...oh...and his right hand misses a third finger...you cant tell once you listen to his solos...

[@giovannisugonatoli]

I've seen this quartet in Verona some years ago; i've know mr. Henderson, so cool and gentle man and one of the greatest horn player in all jazz history. What a sound! what a rhythmic conception....!!!!

[@Modes9]

At least he got the recognition he deserved in the '90's (Grammy Awards). Joe Farrell didn't live to see recognition accept from his peers.

[@arthurlevshajazz]

great people.there are no such people here

[@oober349]

Anyone else not realize it was only Al & Joe playing until the rest of the band came in?

[@cerimccoy]

That's a beautiful version!

[@jodi183]

I love Joe Henderson! What a great band, too. George Mraz is an amazing bassist.

[@toughtenor]

If Joe went on soloing for 15 more minutes I'd still be listening breathlesly. Jazz can't get any more swinging and pure then this. effortless quartet rendition of this beautiful Strayhorn composition

[@saxoman1]

absolutely wonderful. But then again, i expect nothing less of Joe Henderson.

[@timkjazz]

Saw Joe in the '90's in the middle of his resurgence at the Homewood Public Library in a small concert room that seated about 50 people, an incredibly intimate setting for an astounding 100 minutes of jazz perfection. Joe is a titan of the saxophone.

[@zinwah]

sublime! I first saw Joe Henderson in 1969 when he was with the great Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band . His originality and elegance was evident then and in everything he did subsequently. And he was a real gentleman and lovely guy.

[@sc2man13]

One of my favorite parts of the video is the moment George Mraz comes in on bass after an amazing sax/drums solo. Mraz is awesome!

[@ckartinguu]

Always when I listen to jazz: “how come they can play like this!?”

[@Choisie09]

@RodneyBrown1979 you are so right - even though I've listened to joe for awhile- I've just recently realized, thanks to youtube, how awesome and so underrated this man is - Joe is now in my top five horn players of all time

[@Jazzsax1991]

damn, a real master.. so much ideas, so straight on the beat, awesome technique, i can't understand what he is playing, i just enjoy!

[@ppcc37]

What a sound...

[@MartinUherek]

Oh how crazy this video is incredible. The players here are all superb form. George Mraz's solo was very good. But all the players did great and the 3 fingered piano player amazed me too.

[@ruidoso74]

yeah.. at the begining of the clip, you can see al foster smiling with the "lesson" this man is giving to the world

[@mymiloz]

The greatest JOE

[@jazzuffe]

So fantastic!

[@cnhianda]

I really liked it. Everyone's listening is why its so quiet.

[@CamTheCat]

My favorite musician.

[@CPez]

That Pianist is SICK!!!! and that's before you think about his fingers!!

[@MarieNoelleP]

Omg!!! Totally smoooking!! All of them! :o)

[@adamrafferty]

This is absolutely masterful. Deep deep deep!!!! Awesome.

[@shama2]

outstanding !! amazing bass solo !!

[@juliolazzagonzalez]

Joe Henderson (Lima, de Ohio, 24 de abril de 1937 - 30 de junio de 2001) fue un instumentista y compositor estadounidense de jazz, especializado en el saxo tenor.

[@Jclx]

My hero.

[@adeduction]

Great film making too! Thanks!

[@jaythomasjazz]

killing video...Joe always has a great "roll" going in his lines!! I'm going to go shed some Sigurd rascher 158 exercises....Joe really knows how to use the best fingerings for playing a saxophone.

[@JorgeTbn]

Jedi power!!

[@tom93wood]

awesum

[@robertabrahamsson]

Very nice!

[@xemnas112358]

OMFG their bassit is amazing i wish i could play mine like that

[@Ifrit699]

That's why we love Al, lolz.

[@bonsnaria]

QUE CHINGON!!!!!!!

[@gjazz22]

JH was the horn player on the first Flora & Airto albums every time he plays he experiments.... thats Jazz!!!!!!

[@jazz1bro]

What a soulful cat first and foremost!

[@christopherslone2683]

Incredible stuff!!! Joe is my favorite tenor player and Mraz one of my favorite bassist! Please say that you have more from this concert you will post.

[@mondosolorzano]

That pianist is is a fucking badass

[@mothwentbad5622]

@balancedaction6 - I don't know if it's still up, but Duke Ellington plays a sort of piano-solo-with-backup version of this that's pretty tight and clever.

[@BennyMax37]

Molto bella questa versione di Take the "A" train con un Henderson cool-bop. Ottimo. Un plauso particolarea te per questa scelta.Bsax

[@musicianproducer]

lol 1:29 twinkle twinkle little star lol. great solo, yeah to michelle check out wayne shorter,and michael brecker as well

[@klubbechitown]

Beautiful vid. Al Foster is amazing and very underrated. Look at his large china cymbal above his hihat... he might play it only once a song.

[@littlebones18]

Baddest motherfuckers in the land.

[@jiyujizai]

🌸🌱❤️😀

[@sonnystitt123]

lol. just helping out there is much great jazz out there and what better teacher is there than the masters themselves. if you need any albums or songs to be recommended i have tons of them. =)

[@LCohenSax]

geez what a monster

[@jamesopera123]

@TripleOctaveMusic Actually he is using a modified vintage Selmer Soloist (D facing I believe)

[@sonnystitt123]

check out benny carter, art pepper, phil woods, and especially kenny garrett. these are all great people to start listening to and learning from them

[@bwanna23]

Very hip interpretation.

[@bobbyshabangu]

i always talk of south africans who are underrated check out bheki mseleku on the piano he's got only 3fingers on his right hand but listen to the way he's improvising

[@lberry2]

haha man your right, he does look Just like bill russell!!!

[@pinomass]

Usually, Take the A train is played by a sax alto, but I like very much this version. Great Joe!!

[@jiyujizai]

🌱💙🌼🙄

[@jgyn]

Al Foster,,,,

[@bluedrache]

Did anyone else notice that no one had their eyes open at any point during the entire performance? (Except the drummer?)

[@zqa12swx]

1:51 sick....

[@tenorfreek]

Explain, it's quite a bold remark.

[@Jamescornelison]

how bout it for how outrageously high al foster has his cymbals

[@Listen4u2b]

@balancedaction6 YES AND YES OH YES AGAIN

[@TheMonkeyTookMyHat]

WOW George Mraz has low action... his strings are pretty much touching the fingerboard.

[@justherb666]

@tenorfreek Bheki is missing the tops of two fingers on his right hand.

[@onatto]

@RodneyBrown1979 You're right, but I don't really think that he's as under appreciated as Harold Land or Hank Mobley.

[@bearishwearish]

it is when a trumpet grows legs and arms and can begin to play itself, after this stage however it is more proper to call the trumpet a "words time machine" and not a classic trumpet. Although 17th & 18th century literature would argue that the only true "words time machine" trumpet is a classic trumpet. Haven't you ever heard of miles david?

[@DavidMinerMusic]

:-)

[@djjjamin]

anita oday aged pretty well

[@vanderbiltsax]

Whenever I see George Mraz, I think, hey - what's Al Gore doing playing the bass?

[@ruidoso74]

well.. i´m a working tenor/soprano player, i must say that my favorite alto player is Cannonbal Adderley, check him out, and of course charlie parker.. get his "omnibook" if you can. kenny garrett is another one

[@Poguesong]

@RodneyBrown1979 *****

[@AlGrubis]

Miles David? Did he do that classic album 'King of Blues'?

[@clarmad]

He did call his live double album recorded at the Vanguard "The State of the Tenor." I don't think he underrated himself. Perhaps he was thinking of Sonny, whom he never surpassed. And I love Joe (though the dissonant triplets get to be a bit much after awhile).

[@johnvalentine3456]

You don't think the record company maybe thought of that title? Joe had already made a couple more records by the time "the State..." came out and probably had nothing to do with that title.

[@ruidoso74]

chek out some dexter gordon too..

[@XxSaxCannon921xX]

Joe Henderson killed it. Love his intro to the whole rhythm section coming in. Bheki Mseleku looks like Cannonball Adderley from the side. George Mraz should not have been on that stage. Al Foster was killin'.

[@johnvalentine3456]

Wrong about Mraz. Joe loved him, told me so himself. I do agree that Mraz's tone was not a round, wooden sound like we might prefer, but a fantastic musician nonetheless.

[@andifyouhadtwocoats]

@kthesuperior thanks you, my daling. whatt is a "job troll"? and actally I come to like this music. I has a nice gay touch to it!!!!!!!!!!! Warmest regards your truley Rab Hines

[@bahbuhbih]

who is playing trumpet?... eeexactly

[@PepperWilliams_songcovers]

One of my top ten tenor players. 1. John Coltrane 2. Dexter Gordon 3. Sonny Rollins 4. Charles Lloyd 5. Joe Henderson 6.Sonny Stitt 7. Hank Mobley 8. Stanley Turrentine 9. Gene Ammons 10. Charlie Rouse

[@danrosati3779]

You have GREAT taste, man!!!!

[@mambojazz1]

Hank Mobley OVER Turrentine?! WHAT?! lol

[@mambojazz1]

Dexter OVER Sonny Rollins?! I forgive that one lol. No Bird in there....must be just for tenor. I 100% agree Coltrane is number one!!!!

[@davideferrari9017]

mambojazz1 and no Wayne Shorter or Mike Brecker at least.. Trane sure owns the first place, and I agree with you that Rollins is way more complete and astonishing than Dex, in my opinion Sonny stands just after John.. Turrentine is really underrated, he played in a really tasty way, probably more interesting than Mobley.. They're all real beasts anyway

[@mlevy001]

Glad to see Jug on your list!

[@Jazzman555]

why would you compare two players like that. Sonny Rollins and Joe Henderson both have unique aproaches to the saxophone how could u say that one is better.

[@AlGrubis]

Isn't this guy on sax also in the Jedi council. Talented dude!

[@JCloyd-ys1fm]

Love it, but the bass solo was too long.

[@tenorfreek]

You're worng there. George Mraz isn't black. He is from Prague. His officlal name is Jiri Mraz. I think the Georges M'Raz you are talking about is another person.

[@llzllz7522]

No Johnny Griffrin ?? are you kidding me ?

[@clarmad]

Zoot Sims. Just sayin'

[@armandopace8559]

Ahahahahahah Bill Russel on tenor sax

[@mambojazz1]

Armando Pace I dont get it?? This is Joe Henderson one of the greatest saxophonists of all time.

[@johnvalentine3456]

I think he means Joe looks like a smaller version of the great basketball player, Bill Russel, which is kind of true. And you are correct, Joe was the greatest!!! @@mambojazz1

[@bearishwearish]

mraz is the closest you can get to scott.