Russell Henderson

Biography

Russell Audley Ferdinand "Russ" Henderson (7 January 1924 – 18 August 2015) was a jazz musician on the piano and the steelpan. Originally from Trinidad and Tobago, he settled in England in the 1950s. As Kevin Le Gendre has stated in Jazzwise about Henderson: "Along with the likes of Rupert Nurse he was one of the key musicians to back London-based calypsonians such as the legendary Lord Kitchener during the heyday of the calypso and highlife label Melodisc, and he carried on developing myriad hybrids of jazz, West Indian and Latin music throughout the 1950s and 60s." Henderson is most widely recognised as one of the founding figures of the Notting Hill Carnival in London, United Kingdom.

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