Have any of you checked out the book, [b]
Running the Voodoo Down[/B]: The Electric Music of Miles Davis (Backbeat: 2005)? If not, check it out if you are a Michael Henderson fan. There is a whole chapter on one of the world's truly great under the radar bassists. His whole angle is that Henderson was the first non-jazz musician Miles ever hired, and that he gave his funk an authenticity that it did not have before Henderson came aboard.
A surprise is the connection that the author makes between Henderson and Bootsy who cross paths doing studio work in Detroit, and in the influence that James Brown's band had over 1970's Miles Davis. The coolest thing in that chapter is a reference to a James Brown saxophonist during the Bootsy/Catfish era names Robert McCullough. If you remember the single, "Superbad," you know the sax solo was kind of "out." In fact, James Brown is shouting give me some 'Trane (Coltrane.) It is just neat to realize how all great musicians tend to be much more aware of each other than the general population may realize.
