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Eddie Henderson Project

Precious Moment

Kind of Blue 10008

Another of Kind of Blue's impeccably recorded, flawlessly performed sets from a master craftsman, this time operating on trumpet and flugelhorn: Eddie Henderson.

Refined, elegant, polished, poised are the adjectives that come to mind as the modern-jazz classics (by the likes of Wayne Shorter, Bill Evans and Larry Willis, as well as Henderson's wife Natsuko) slip by, Henderson's burnished, ringing tone effortlessly addressing all the tunes' subtleties, and blending beautifully with Kevin Hays's luminously delicate piano.

With virtuoso bassist Ed Howard and the prince of embellishing (rather than briskly propulsive) drummers, Billy Hart, also on hand, this is a peach of an album, assured, intensely listenable yet (like most Kind of Blue albums, which seem to specialise in putting musicians at their ease and coaxing their very best from them) supremely relaxed; Henderson has seldom sounded better.