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Compositions by Al Henderson


The following is a listing of jazz compositions by Al Henderson. A number of these have also been arranged for jazz orchestra. Many have been performed in club and concert settings by jazz artists and ensembles such as Time Warp, Al Henderson Quartet / Quintet / Septet, Richard Whiteman Trio, Pan-Galactic Bop Quartet, Shox Johnson and the Jive Bombers, Don Pullen/Jane Bunnett and the Alex Dean Quintet.  A large number have been performed on radio and television broadcasts. Seventy-seven  compositions appear on commercially available recordings.

All works published by Cornerstone Records Inc. or Alan Henderson.
Recordings of compositions are listed below the title.

2008

  • A Song For Ruth
  • Final Confrontation [Regeneration Suite (for Raymond and Sachi Moriyama) Part IV]
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • Palacio

    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • Yes, We Have No Animals

2007

  • A Quiet Moment
  • In Search of a Soul

    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • Taiga
  • Conflict [Regeneration Suite (for Raymond and Sachi Moriyama) Part I11]
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132
  • Croaking Raven

2006

  • Thin Men

2005

  • Dream Eagles
  • Recovery [Regeneration Suite (for Raymond and Sachi Moriyama) Part V)
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132
  • Spirit Owl
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • Still Waiting
  • The Treehouse [Regeneration Suite (for Raymond and Sachi Moriyama) Part I/VI)

    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.

2004

  • Back Alley Beat
  • On The Case
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • The Fat Man Cometh

2003

  • Antics
  • L & M
  • Metropolis
  • Darkening Clouds [Regeneration Suite (for Raymond and Sachi Moriyama) Part III]
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • Waiting for Spring
    Fathers and Sons / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 124.

2002

  • Dos Canciones
  • Gridlock

    Warp IX / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 119.
  • Sandy Cove
  • Sierra Nevada
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.

2001

  • But Now It’s Over
    Regeneration / Al Henderson Septet. Cornerstone CRST CD 132.
  • Obscure

    Fathers and Sons / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 124.
  • ‘Round the Bay
  • Twillingate Harbour

2000

  • Cruise Control
  • Demolition Drive
  • Fathers and Sons

    Fathers and Sons / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 124.
  • Happy Adventure
  • Headin’ Out
  • In Transit
  • Millenium Jump
    Fathers and Sons / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 124.
  • Who Can Tell

1999

  • Turk Works
  • 1998Another Time, Another Place
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Jury Duty
  • Relay

    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Rue St. Denis
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Urban Landscape
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.

1997

  • Above the Clouds
  • J.G.
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.

1996

  • Project B
    Rhythms, Riffs and Rhymes / Various Artists. York Fine Arts YFA 00496.

1995

  • Don Quixote
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Strange Doings
  • Strategy
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Test Run
  • The Traveller's Song
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.

1994

  • A Continental Mood
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Lost Promises
  • The Kraken Wakes
  • Traffic
  • Unfinished Business
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Wilbur Ware

    Warp IX / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 119.
    Return of the Fat Man/ Time Warp & The Illustrated Men. DVD / Video.

1993

  • Caracas Suite [Part I: Las Mercedes; Part II: El Libertador; Part III: Chacaito]
    There and Back / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 101.
  • Catalyst
    There and Back / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 101.
  • Chasm
    There and Back / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 101.
  • Conundrum
  • Mingus

    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • The Beggars' Promenade
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • Time for Trevor
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.

1992

  • Andalusian Landscape

    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • Fire and Ice
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.

1991

  • Ambiguity
  • Darwin's Ghost
    Fathers and Sons / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 124.
  • Ellingtonia
    • Part I: Bubber, Cootie and Tricky Sam
    • Part II: Harry and the Rabbit
    • Part III: Barney Bigard
    • Part IV: The Ellington Stomp
    There and Back / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 101.
  • 15th Street
    Jazz Notes / Various Artists - Time Warp. CBC Variety Recordings VRCD 1018.
  • Level One
  • Mary's Tune
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103..
  • R.W.
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
    Avenue Rhodes, Richard Whiteman Cornerstone CRST CD111.
  • Something for Slim
  • There Will Be Time

1990

  • Something to Remember
  • The Jazz Room

1989

  • A Little Out of Control
    Time Warp Live at George's Jazz Room / Time Warp. Unity UTY 118 CD.
  • Antigua
  • Coincidence
    Time Warp Live at George's Jazz Room / Time Warp. Unity UTY 118 CD.
  • Enigma
  • Gander Day Blues
  • Ikenge

    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Savannah

    Time Warp Live at George's Jazz Room / Time Warp. Unity UTY 118 CD.
    Savannah / Time Warp. Video.
  • The Planiverse
  • Watch Your Step
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.

1988

  • Anagram
  • A Portrait of Billy Strayhorn
    Time Warp Live at George's Jazz Room / Time Warp. Unity UTY 118 CD.
  • A Portrait of Eddie Vinson

    There and Back / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 101.
  • Blue Saxophones

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
  • Cross Purposes
  • Dilemma
  • Late Night Final
  • Main Street
    New York Duets / Jane Bunnett / Don Pullen, Music and Arts CD-629.
  • Oblique
  • Out of Bounds
  • There and Back
  • Vanishing Point

1987

  • Against the Grain
  • Cat and Mouse
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • Chain Reaction

    There and Back / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 101.
  • City Life
  • Dinosaur Dig
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • Double Trouble
  • Down and Out
  • Eccentricity
  • Eight Ball
  • Endangered Species
  • Hangin' Around
  • Hard Times
  • Mousetrap
  • Offhand
  • Still a Dream
  • The Senator
  • Urban Nightmare
  • Wait and See

1986

  • (Pour Me) Another Drink   [aka After Hours]
  • Blues Warp
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.
  • Checkpoint
  • Duke's Time
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.
  • Hadronic Interactions
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • Mass Confusion
  • Off Centre
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.
  • One Way
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
  • Pterodactyls
  • Quantum Leap

    Time Warp Live at George's Jazz Room / Time Warp. Unity UTY 118 CD.
  • Quarks
  • Short Circuit
  • Zot
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.

1985

  • Baalim
    Warp IX / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 119.
  • Fallout Blues
  • Muddy's Blues

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Down to Earth / Time Warp. GRMM C-001.
  • Nightwing
    Down to Earth / Time Warp. GRMM C-001.
  • Perihelion
  • Random Access
  • Robert Johnson's Blues

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.
  • Rush Hour
  • The Ivory Coast
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.

1984

  • Basement Blues
  • Behind the Walls
  • Clunker

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Down to Earth / Time Warp. GRMM C-001.
  • Cogs
  • Collations
  • Del Drops In
  • P.G.B.T.
  • Splinter
  • Togo:  Klo Mayondi
  • Too Much Left Unsaid

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.
  • Underground

    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.

1983

  • Blues for Basses
    Urban Landscape / Al Henderson Quintet. Cornerstone CRST CD 108.
  • Courtney's Song
  • Crocodile Tears
  • Got It and Gone
  • If We'd Never Dreamed
  • Le Jazze
  • Stellar Run
  • Tardon
    Off Center / Time Warp. Parkwood #111.
  • The Galaxies But Grains of Sand
  • The Martian Jump
  • Warp Five

1982

  • Algorithm
  • Asteroid Alley
    Asteroid Alley / 1Time Warp. C-Note 831041.
  • Birds
  • Blue October
  • Breakaway
  • Drum, Phil
  • I'm From Saturn, How About You?
  • Jim on Jupiter
    Asteroid Alley / 1Time Warp. C-Note 831041.
  • Marcus M.
    Avenue Rhodes, Richard Whiteman Cornerstone CRST CD111.
  • Night Shift
  • Nima na Kombo
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Asteroid Alley / 1Time Warp. C-Note 831041.
  • Pan-Galactic Burnout
  • Saturn Saturday Night

1981

  • Collision Course
  • Crankcase
    Time Warp / Time Warp. C-Note 821039.
  • Monk in Space
    Dinosaur Dig / Al Henderson Quartet. Cornerstone CRST CD 103.
  • Ngosa
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Time Warp / Time Warp. C-Note 821039.
  • Nommo

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Kaitlyn's Waltz / 1Alex Dean. Unity UTY 139 CD.
    Asteroid Alley / 1Time Warp. C-Note 831041.
  • Positron
    Time Warp / Time Warp. C-Note 821039.
  • Tachyon
  • Time Will Tell
  • We Will Never Know
  • What Now (where do we go from here)

1980

  • Barry's Medium Bounce
  • Bobbi's Tune
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Time Warp / Time Warp. C-Note 821039.
    New View / York University Jazz Sextet. York University Records YUR01.
  • Fall Exits
  • Flight
  • Puck's Theme
    New View / York University Jazz Sextet. York University Records YUR01.
  • Simple Samba
  • Slipstream
  • Streamed-line
  • Theme for Oscar Pettiford
  • The Musicians' Bar
    New View / York University Jazz Sextet. York University Records YUR01.

1979

  • Backlash
    Down to Earth / Time Warp. GRMM C-001.
  • Forty Years From Today (Do You Remember?)
  • Lauren's Song
  • Line Drive
  • Losing Streak
  • Queer Motions
  • Sometimes It's Easy
  • Strange Rhapsody

1978

  • Changeling
  • Down Barbados
  • In the Shadows
  • Syntax
  • The Huckster
    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Down to Earth / Time Warp. GRMM C-001.
  • Theme for Eric Dolphy
    Warp IX / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST CD 119.

1977

  • Crocus
  • Lofsky's Line

1976

  • Anthem
  • Kirke
  • Sociology
  • When I Think of You

1975

  • Chrysalis
  • I Don't Care (If You Hate Me)
  • Theme for Coleman  Hawkins

    The Time Warp Collection / Time Warp. Cornerstone CRST   CD105-2.
    Asteroid Alley / 1Time Warp. C-Note 831041.
    Return of the Brocaded Adventurer / Shox Johnson and the Jive Bombers. C-Note 801029.
    The Canadian Stage Band Festival - Winnipeg '78, / York University Jazz Combo. CBC LM 461.
  • You Got To

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