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| | JazzWest: Saxophonist Joe Henderson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, winner of three Grammy awards for his rich, lush recordings, died of heart failure on Saturday night, June 30, after a long battle with emphysema. |
 | | Henderson, best known to jazz fans internationally for his trio of award-winning CDs on the Verve label in the 1990s, recorded 27 albums over the course of his career. |
 | | Henderson won Grammy awards for best instrumental jazz solo in 1992 for his "Lush Life" album, and best jazz instrumentalist in 1993 for the CD "So Near, So Far" and in again in 1996 for "Double Rainbow," his tribute album to jazz great Antonio Carlos Jobim. |
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