Wayne Henderson

Wayne Henderson’s trombone teamed up with Wilton Felder’s tenor in the Jazz Crusaders to provide the group its trademark sound. An excellent hard bop soloist who afterwards in his profession thought we would become an R&B manufacturer instead, Henderson initial played frequently with Felder, Joe Test, and Stix Hooper in Houston in the middle-’50s. By enough time they transferred to LA and started documenting in 1961, these were referred to as the Jazz Crusaders. After many information for Pacific Jazz, the group in 1971 transformed its name towards the Crusaders. With Henderson’s decision to give up the music group in 1975, the Crusaders dropped significant amounts of their originality. In the middle-’90s, Henderson and Felder acquired a nostalgic reunion with an enlarged group for the recording over the Par label. Henderson passed away of heart failing in Culver Town, California in Apr 2014; he was 74 years of age.