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1LP Vinyl – B0022980-01

Henderson’s illustrious recording life began in the early ‘60s with Blue Note. He launched as a leader in 1963 with his Blue Note debut, Page One, a remarkable quintet session featuring trumpeter Kenny Dorham, his collaborator, who contributed two originals to the six-track album as well as penned the liner notes where he claimed the “goateed astronaut of the tenor sax” was “one of the most musical young saxophonists to show since Charlie Parker.” It was high praise that Henderson fully exhibited on Page One, which included the stellar rhythm section of bassist Butch Warren, drummer Pete LaRoca and pianist McCoy Tyner, who is referred to as “etc.” on the album cover since he had just signed a contractual record deal with Impulse!.