Tony Adamo - SONIC HENDERSON lyrics

SONIC Henderson /Lyrics by Tony Adamo/1/5/15 JOE HENDERSON'S PROLIFIC OUTPUT AS EITHER A SIDEMAN OR LEADER/ IS SHEAR SONIC VOLATILITY OF MUSIC COMING FROM HIS TENOR THINKIN MIND/ NO HALF STEPPIN HERE BRO/JOE'S INSIDE-OUTSIDE APPROACH GOT YOUR BACK TO EVERY SIDE HE PLAYED ON/ TO THE LIVE SHOWS WE DUG HIM AT/ HE BLEW HIS TENOR HORN UP TO AND LET HIS PLAYING SPILL OVER INTO HARD BOP/ HENDERSON WAS ALWAYS DIGGIN INTO THE HOT-N-KOOL VOCABULARY OF JAZZ TO COME UP WITH NOTES THAT AREN'T ALWAYS OBVIOUS BUT ALWAYS FIT/ HE WAS A BRILLIANT COMPOSER AND ATMOSPHERICAL MASTER CREATING THE SPACE FOR THE LISTENER TO DRIFT INTO AND CREATE THEIR OWN SOMETHIN ELSE WORLD OF MUSIC IN DIGGIN HENDERSON'S JAZZ CHOPS/ JUST COOK-N-BURN BABY/ ALWAYS STICKING TO HIS UNDILUTED APPROACH TO HIS TENOR HORN PLAYIN FROM FIRST POPIN ON THE JAZZ RECORDING SCENE WITH HORACE SILVER,LEE MORGAN, AND McCoy TYNER/ JOE EVENTUALLY CAME TO SIT ON ONE OF THE PRESTIGE RECORDING CHAIRS AT BLUE NOTE RECORDS/ AS A TALENTED WELL TRAVELED AND VALUABLE NU HIP VOICE AS A BLUE NOTE SIDEMAN TO THE MANY BLUE NOTE RECORDING STARS OF THE DAY/ JOE'S PHRASING AND MODULATION ARE FLAWLESS/ HIS FLOATING THOUGHT PROVOKING SOUND'S THAT WERE AT TIME'S HARD LIQUOR JAZZ MIXED WITH MAD SEX MUSIC/ SET THE STAGE FOR THE JAZZ AFICIONADO'S TO DIG THE DEEP GROOVE IN JOE'S RHYTHMIC TEXTURED LAYERING ON HIS SPEED RUNNING TO HIS FLAME THROWING ICE HOT SCALES THAT BURNED THROUGH THE ORGANIC JAZZ ORCHESTRATION IN HIS SOUND ARCHITECTURE/ THAT HYPED UP THE NATURAL THINKIN IN HOOKIN UP THE HIGH VOLTAGE IN HIS HORN TO FRACTURE YOUR HIPSTER THINKIN TO NO END/ JOE HENDERSON BLUE BOSSA LUSH LIFE BLACK NARCISSUS POPSICLE STICK JOE'S SCATING HIS VOCALIZE TO HIS SOUNCLOUD JAZZMIX