EDDIE HENDERSON — Realization (review)

EDDIE HENDERSON — Realization album cover Album · 1973 · Fusion Buy this album from MMA partners
5/5 ·
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Realization is the first of two Eddie Henderson albums that were recorded by the Mwandishi band, known from Herbie Hancock's highly acclaimed early 70s albums. Only the drummer got substituted. The music is very similar to that on Crossings and Sextant , and features very elaborate psychedelic jazz fusion.

The main difference with the albums released under Hancock’s name is the focus on Henderson’s trumpet playing. Clearly influenced by Miles Davis, Henderson blows our breath away with his emotional strikes and stabs on the instrument, expressing pain as easily as joy or sodaness. The rhythm section provides a very involved and engaging backbone, that, just like the Hancock albums, borders on funk but is still too complex and stubborn to groove as easily as later and more accessible mid 70s fusion albums.

Talking about gems, this one takes the cake. And best of all it’s easy and cheap to get as it is paired with Henderson’s other Mwandishi album Realization on one CD that I bough for a mere 6.55£. Easily my best bargain in years.
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