The Jazz Crusaders ~ KEEP THAT SAME OLD FEELING HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY⋆⭒˚｡⋆ 🎺🎧 🎶 😇🕊💫☁️🌈🙏 Wayne Maurice Henderson #WayneHenderson (born September 24, 1939 in Houston, Texas – April 5, 2014) was an American soul jazz and hard bop trombonist and record producer, known for his work in the genres of jazz fusion and soul jazz. In 1961, he co-founded the soul jazz/hard bop group #TheJazzCrusaders. Henderson left the group (who by then had changed their name to #TheCrusaders ) in 1976 to pursue

Remembering the great Joe Sample on his birthday (Feb 1, 1939 – Sep 12, 2014). Joe could play the funkiest of tunes to the most sublime piano. In high school in the 1950s, Sample teamed up with friends saxophonist Wilton Felder and drummer "Stix" Hooper to form a group called the Swingsters. While studying piano at Texas Southern University, Sample met and added trombonist Wayne Henderson and several other players to the Swingsters, which became the Modern Jazz Sextet and then the Jazz Crusaders