{"id":4306,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/bill-henderson-live-at-the-kennedy-center\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"bill-henderson-live-at-the-kennedy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"Bill Henderson &#8211; Live at the Kennedy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\"><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:16px\"><strong>Live at the Kennedy Center<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong>Bill Henderson<\/strong><\/font><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"1\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:12px\"><br \/>(Web-Only Jazz &#8211; 2006)<br \/> by Mark Ruffin<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/div>\n<p>  <font size=\"2\" style=\"font- face:verdana; font- size:14px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  In the late 50s and early 60s Bill Henderson lived in the shadow of the late Joe Williams. Then the Chicago-born singer moved to L.A. and became a prolific <i>character actor<\/i>, appearing in over 50 movies and almost as many TV series.  Some folks might remember him as gym teacher <i>Chet Kinkaid&#8217;s<\/i> neighbor on one of the early Bill Cosby shows. Some may know him from his very funny role in &#8220;White Men Can&#8217;t Jump.&#8221; But, while he never became a star as an actor, this record proved that he should have become a star as a singer.  <\/p>\n<p>  At 80 years old, <i>Live at the Kennedy Center<\/i> is a stirring comeback for one of the most underrated singers in jazz history.  Of course his acting skills come in handy when he quips lines like &#8220;if this goes badly, my name is John Hendricks&#8221;, but it is his vocal style that makes this performance work. Whether he&#8217;s singing standards, or Ellington tunes (of which there are a lot) or just singing a blues tune like BB&#8217;s &#8220;Never Make Your Move Too Soon&#8221; this guy has all the power, intonation and pizzazz of any male jazz singer alive.<\/font>                          <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live at the Kennedy Center Bill Henderson(Web-Only Jazz &#8211; 2006)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}