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The Art of Living: The Funk Surgeon

Like any good scat tune, Eddie Henderson’s musical journey has followed a meandering path, and has led him to become a fixture in today’s jazz scene. On the night of his performance for Live at Halekulani’s Lewers Lounge, trumpeter Eddie Henderson, dressed in a dapper suit and penny loafers, is the epitome of cool. Though he’s a man of 75 years, Henderson has got the chops of someone far his junior. This makes sense, considering that he’s been honing his craft since he was 9 years old, when legendary singer and composer Louis Armstrong first taught him to make a sound on the trumpet while backstage at the Apollo Theater. Interactions with such esteemed musicians as Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, and Count Basie were hallmarks of young Eddie’s life. His mother was one of the dancers at Harlem’s original Cotton Club Revue, which featured the most prominent jazz musicians in its heyday in the 1920s and 1930s; his father sang with Billy Williams and The Charioteers, one of the most popular American gospel and harmony groups in the early 1940s. But it wasn’t until Henderson was 17, when he heard Miles Davis perform live, that he knew he wanted to play music for the rest of his life. “I’ve always loved music, but for me, that’s when the lights came on,” he says. “I heard that sound, and I was like, ‘I didn’t know you could do that with a horn.’” For more, visit http://halekulaniliving.tv/