The Milestone Years

The Milestone Years Artist: Joe Henderson
Label: Milestone
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 8


UPC: 025218441322
EAN: 0025218441322
ASIN: B000000XRM


Release Date: 1994-09-01

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Listmania:

  1. JAZZ 4 UR AZZ!!

Tracks:

  1. Mamacita
  2. The Kicker
  3. Chelsea Bridge
  4. If
  5. Nardis
  6. Without Song
  7. Mo' Joe
  8. O Amor Em Paz (Once I Loved)
  9. Tetragon
  10. First Trip
  11. I've Got You Under My Skin
  12. Invitation
  13. R.J.
  14. Waltz For Zweetie

Tracks:

  1. The Bead Game
  2. You Don't Know What Love Is
  3. Unilateral
  4. The Scavenger
  5. But Not For Me
  6. Power To The People
  7. Afro-Centric
  8. Black Narcissus
  9. Isotope
  10. Opus One-Point -Five
  11. Lazy Afternoon
  12. Foresight And Afterthought

Tracks:

  1. Caribbean Fire Dance
  2. Recorda-Me
  3. A Shade Of Jade
  4. Isotope
  5. 'Round Midnight
  6. Mode For Joe
  7. If Your Not A Part Of The Solution Your Part Of The Problem
  8. Blue Bossa
  9. Closing Theme

Tracks:

  1. Gazelle
  2. Invitation
  3. Mind Over Matter
  4. No Me Esqueca
  5. A Shade Of Jade
  6. 'Round Midnight
  7. Out 'N' In
  8. Blue Bossa

Tracks:

  1. Junk Blues
  2. Terra Firma
  3. Vis-A-Vis
  4. Foregone Conclusion
  5. Black Is The Color (Of My True Love's Mind)
  6. Current Events
  7. Tress-Cun-Deo-La
  8. Turned Around
  9. Song For Sinners

Tracks:

  1. Me Among Others
  2. Bwaata
  3. Tres Palabras
  4. All Things Considered
  5. Canyon Lady
  6. Las Palmas
  7. In The Begining There Was Africa...
  8. Air

Tracks:

  1. Water
  2. Fire
  3. Earth
  4. Butterfly Dreams
  5. Light As A Feather
  6. Love Reborn
  7. Summer Night
  8. Black Narcissus
  9. Hindsight And Forethought
  10. Power To The People

Tracks:

  1. The Other Side Of Right
  2. Good Morning, Heartache
  3. Amoeba
  4. Gazelle
  5. My Cherie Amour
  6. Old Slippers
  7. Immaculate Deception
  8. Solution
  9. Black Miracle
  10. Black Narcissus
  11. What Can I Say?
  12. Windows

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars A must for fans, but handle with care!.......2000-01-12

Take the star rating with a grain of salt; this box contains much of the best and some of the worst Henderson ever. - THE KICKER (Disc 1, tracks 1-8), an excellent recording (although is doesn't match the astounding quality of his best Blue Note albums), is easily surpassed by TETRAGON (Disc 1, tracks 9-14 / Disc 2, track 1) - similar, but more exciting and fully satisfying. - The LIGHTHOUSE concert with Woody Shaw on trumpet (Disc 3) is a revelation. The tunes range from old warhorses like 'Blue Bossa' to the almost-fusion 'If You're Not Part Of The Solution...'; superb playing by all involved, and the omnipresent and somewhat anticlimactic electric piano does no harm to the intensity of most of the music. - The IN JAPAN session (Disc 4, tracks 6-8 / Disc 5, track 1) is even better. The VERY Japanese rhythm section (if you know what I mean) provides for a hard driving background for some of Henderson's most outside and most inspired playing; 'Out 'n In' (the title says it all) and especially the scorching 'Junk Blues' scream for the replay button, and there's an interesting version of 'Round Midnight' which reaches a short climax in the middle of the performance. - On IN PURSUIT OF BLACKNESS (Disc 4, tracks 1-5) Henderson flirts with jazz rock again (he doesn't completely cross the line yet), but his hypnotic solos always make up for the change of pace. - BLACK IS THE COLOR (Disc 5, tracks 2-6) and MULTIPLE (Disc 5, tracks 7-9 / Disc 6, tracks 1-2), both featuring Jack de Johnette on drums, mark the real beginning of Henderson's fusion phase. The tunes are less challenging than before, but Henderson sounds absolutely comfortable with them, adapting his playing to the more simple chord changes (by using many arpeggios) but never really surrendering his familiar style. A glance at commercialization, yes, but, apart from some oddities (like some strange, pseudo-experimental soundscapes on BITC), very listenable and never lacking a spark of genius. - The tracks with Flora Purim (Disc 7, tracks 4-7 / Disc 8, tracks 10-12) are a different matter: If you like this kind of music, you'll love these tunes, but Henderson just acts as a session musician here (one of the highest order, though). - The rest of the program ranges from so-so (CANYON LADY: Disc 6, tracks 3-7) or kind of weird but rewarding (ELEMENTS, the encounter with Alice Coltrane: Disc 6, track 8 / Disc 7, tracks 1-3) to utterly unlistenable (BLACK MIRACLE: Disc 8, tracks 4-9). Henderson is let down by his rhythm sections (which were obviously not selected for their suitability but for marketing reasons) more and more; he's arguably the most adaptable saxophonist around, but even he cannot cope with a situation when he has to (?) play with uninspired or incompatible fellow musicians. - - All in all, about one or two of the CDs are seriously flawed, but the first and better half of the material is nothing short of breathtaking; much of the best stuff can't be found anywhere else, and for me much of the jazz rock was a very pleasant surprise. You'll have to decide by yourself whether you want to invest in a highly priced but somewhat uneven collection like this one, but if you want to hear the real apexes of Joe Henderson's output, it comes close to a necessity, at least for the time being.

5 out of 5 stars Great box set includes all of Joe's Milestone recordings.......1999-11-02

Any fan of tenor great Joe Henderson should enjoy this large box set that collects all of Joe's recordings (1967-1976) for the Milestone label. The music is more wide-ranging in style than his earlier work for Blue Note (mostly 1960s) and his later work on Verve (mostly 1990s). Treasures abound: Chelsea Bridge, Nardis, Isotope, Canyon Lady, live material with Woody Shaw, another live date in Japan, and much more. The collected works of Joe Henderson over the last 35 years are a national musical treasure.

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