{"id":232,"date":"2010-09-19T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/?p=232"},"modified":"2020-03-21T11:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T11:04:02","slug":"fletcher-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/2010\/09\/19\/fletcher-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Fletcher Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/11\/English.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-581 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" title=\"English\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/11\/English.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"21\" height=\"11\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nHolding a BSc degree in Chemical Science from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952) moved to New York to attend Columbia University for a master&#8217;s degree in Chemistry. However, faced with the bad professional prospects of a chemist of black race in the America of the 1920&#8217;s, he turned to develop one of the most influential musical careers in the history of Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>A pianist, composer, arranger and band leader, his orchestra was the first established Big Band settled in New York and, for some, the most important one in history (in open rivalry with Duke Ellington&#8217;s). Henderson&#8217;s work as an arranger (for his own band but also for others&#8217;, notably Benny Goodman&#8217;s) is considered as the main contribution to the development of a coherent style of Jazz orchestration. First order musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter and Coleman Hawkins stood out on their own in Henderson&#8217;s orchestra, set apart form the rest by its powerful combination of arrangements and improvisations. For many critics it was Henderson, and not Benny Goodman, the true King of Swing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/11\/Spanish.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-582 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" title=\"Spanish\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2010\/11\/Spanish.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"21\" height=\"14\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Licenciado en Ciencias Qu\u00edmicas por la Universidad de Atlanta, Georgia, Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952) se traslad\u00f3 a Nueva York para\u00a0 proseguir sus estudios con un master por la Universidad de Columbia. Sin embargo, las malas perspectivas profesionales para un qu\u00edmico de raza negra en la Am\u00e9rica de 1920 le llevaron a desarrollar una carrera musical de enorme influencia en la historia del Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>Pianista, compositor, arreglista y director de orquesta, la suya fue la primera Big Band importante establecida en Nueva York y, para algunos, la m\u00e1s importante de la historia (en abierta competencia con la de Duke Ellington). El trabajo como arreglista de Henderson (para su propia banda pero tambi\u00e9n para otras, especialmente la de Benny Goodman) se considera la principal contribuci\u00f3n al desarrollo de un estilo coherente de orquestaci\u00f3n jazz\u00edstica. En su orquesta, que destac\u00f3 por la poderosa combinaci\u00f3n de arreglos e improvisaci\u00f3n, brillaron m\u00fasicos de la talla de Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Benny Carter y Coleman Hawkins. Para muchos cr\u00edticos Henderson, y no Goodman, fue el aut\u00e9ntico Rey del Swing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Holding a BSc degree in Chemical Science from Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia, Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952) moved to New York to attend Columbia University for a master&#8217;s degree in Chemistry. However, faced with the bad professional prospects of a chemist <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/2010\/09\/19\/fletcher-henderson\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Sigue leyendo &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.icmm.csic.es\/within-experimental-error\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}