The Al Henderson Quintet will be performing at The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar Thursday, November 20th & Friday, November 21st, 2014
The quintet features Al Henderson (bass), Alex Dean (saxes, bass clarinet), Pat LaBarbera (saxes), Richard Whiteman (piano), and Joe Iannuzzi (drums)
The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar
194 Queen West, Toronto
416.598.2475
The Al Henderson Quintet will be performing at The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar Friday, March 7, 2014
The quintet features Al Henderson (bass), Alex Dean (saxes, bass clarinet), Pat LaBarbera (saxes), Richard Whiteman (piano), and Barry Romberg (drums)
The Rex Jazz & Blues Bar
194 Queen West, Toronto
416.598.2475
Thursday, October 4, 2012 – 7:30 p.m.
Al Henderson leads his quintet including Alex Dean (saxes, bass clarinet), Pat LaBarbera (saxes), pianist Richard Whiteman, and drummer Barry Romberg in a faculty concert at York University. The band will be performing compositions from his newly released Taiga CD along with several world premieres of recent compositions inspired by the poetry of three-time U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Click here for more information.
Box Office: 416-736-5888 | Box Office click here
Location: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto
General: Admission: $15.00
Cornerstone Records Inc. is pleased to announce the release of Al Henderson’s fifth recording Taiga (CRST 138CD). Recorded in 2011 at the Canterbury Sound studio in Toronto, the recording features his regular quintet with Alex Dean (saxes, bass clarinet), Pat LaBarbera (saxes, narration), pianist Richard Whiteman and drummer Barry Romberg. The recording also documents the quintet with special guest artists, baritone saxophonist David Mott appears on three tracks while noted cellists Matt Brubeck and Mark Chambers, first heard with the septet on Regeneration (CRST CD132) return for three others. Icicles, a piece inspired by the American poet Robert Pinsky gives a preview of a series of pieces inspired by Pinsky’s poems to be performed and recorded at a later date.
This recording was made possible with the generous assistance of the Ontario Arts Council. The Ontario Arts Council is an agency of the Government of Ontario.
Available through Cornerstone Records Inc. (Click here http://www.cornerstonerecordsinc.com/pages/ordering.html) and soon through iTunes.
Featuring Kevin Turcotte (trumpet), Kelly Jefferson (saxophone) along with Time Warp co-founders and co-leaders Al Henderson (bass) and Barry Elmes (drums).
The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar
194 Queen Street West, Toronto
416-598-2475
www.therex.ca/
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The Gallery Studio Café
2877 Lake Shore Boulevard West (east of Islington Avenue)
416-253-0285
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Please join the Al Henderson / Kirk MacDonald Duo Thursday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m. in celebration of Black History Month for an evening of wonderful music and commentary on jazz history. Al and Kirk will venture from their duo format of performing jazz standards and their original compositions by performing important compositions from Great Jazz Musicians and will comment on their historical context.
Al has more than thirty years of experience teaching and performing jazz and is an Assistant Professor at York University. His areas of research include jazz composition, performance and theory with a special interest in jazz history. Al directs the York University Jazz Orchestra with Ron Westray, the Oscar Peterson Chair in Jazz Performance endowed by the Government of Ontario in 2009. Al arranges many of the orchestra’s pieces drawing on the rich history of jazz composers and performers from Coleman Hawkins and Duke Ellington to Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins.
Kirk also has numerous years of experience teaching and performing and is part of the full-time faculty at Humber College, just west of The Gallery Studio Café on the Lake Shore. Kirk, a previous JUNO award winner has just received yet another 2011 JUNO nomination for his CD “Songbook Vol. 2″. For more information, please check out www.kirkmacdonald.com
The Gallery Studio Café
2877 Lake Shore Boulevard West (east of Islington Avenue)
416-253-0285
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Please join the Al Henderson Quintet performing new works and old favourites in Toronto’s best known jazz bar, The Rex Hotel. Featuring saxophonists Alex Dean and Pat LaBarbera, pianist Richard Whiteman, bassist Al Henderson and drummer Barry Romberg.
The Rex Hotel Jazz & Blues Bar\
194 Queen Street West, Toronto
416-598-2475 www.therex.ca/
Thursdays starting at 7:30 p.m.
The Gallery
York University Department of Music Faculty Concert
2010 Juno nominee, Professor Alan Henderson leads his regular quintet adding Professor David Mott on baritone saxophone for a concert of all new arrangements of original Henderson compositions.
Featuring saxophonists Alex Dean and Pat LaBarbera, baritone saxophonist David Mott, pianist Richard Whiteman, bassist Al Henderson and drummer Barry Romberg.
Box Office: 416-736-5888 | www.yorku.ca/perform/boxoffice
Location: Tribute Communities Recital Hall, Accolade East Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto
General Admission: $15.00
Mary Henderson
Alan Henderson (music scores) and Mary Henderson (photo)