Joe Henderson’s Death – Cause and Date

The saxophonist Joe Henderson died at the age of 64. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Saxophonist who played the memorable solo on Horace Silver’s “Song for My Father,” and worked with the greatest artists of his day.

He was born in Lima, Ohio to a large family with nine brothers and five sisters.

Joe Henderson, one of the great jazz saxophonists and a composer who wrote a handful of tunes known by almost every jazz student, died on Saturday in San Francisco. He was 64 and lived in San Francisco. The cause was heart failure after a long struggle with emphysema, The Associated Press reported.

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