Eddie Henderson is one of the few trumpeters who is strongly influenced by Miles Davis' work of his early fusion period. He grew up in San Francisco, studied trumpet at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, but was trained to be a doctor when he permanently chose music. Henderson worked with Max Roach, Elvin Jones, McCoy Tyner, Benny Golson, Herbie Hancock and Joe Henderson, in addition to his own group. He gained some recognition for his work with the Herbie Hancock Sextet (1970-1973), although his own records (which utilized electronics) tended to be commercial. After Hancock broke up his group, Henderson worked with Art Blakey and Mike Nock, recorded with Charles Earland, and later, in the 1970s, led a rock-oriented group. In the '90s, he returned to playing acoustic hard bop while also working as a psychiatrist. He was on the faculty at Juilliard school of music 2007 to 2016 and has been on the faculty at Oberlin College since 2014, and promoted to full professor in 2023.

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