Bobby Henderson

This under-recorded pianist is best known for a pair of sides under his own name, both originally releases from Vanguard in the second half of the '50s. Much of his career was spent playing solo in various venues that engaged pianists and although he did also work as an accompanist to vocalists and a sidemen in combos, many of these collaborations seemed to have not involved recording. A good example is his relationship with the great singer Billie Holiday; although he played behind her with great regularity circa 1933, it was a period where she used one set of musicians at pe...