Wayne Maurice Henderson / 1939 ++ 2014 / RIP

b. Wayne Maurice Henderson, 24th September 1939, Houston, Texas, U.S.A.

d. 5th April 2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

The trombonist and composer, Wayne Henderson, has died. Wayne was 74.
Wayne passed away in Los Angeles on the 5th of April 2014.
In 1961, Wayne co-founded the jazz group, The Jazz Crusaders.
He left the group in 1975 to pursue a career in producing, setting up his own company At Home Productions.
At Home produced a prolific portfolio of Soul and Fusion based material by the likes of Ronnie Laws, The L.A. Boppers, Bobby Lyle, Pleasure, Side Effect, David Oliver, The McCrary's, Gabor Szabo, Allspice, Narada Michael Walden, Chico Hamilton, Hilary, Smoke, Michael White and Arthur Adams, amongst others.
He also recorded two successful duet albums with the vibraphonist Roy Ayers.
Wayne revived The Jazz Crusaders in 1995.
In 2007, he took a position with the California College of Music in Pasadena, California.