Haywood Henry: The Gentle Monster

Date:	Thursday, May 19, 1983
Label/Number:	Uptown 2713
Personnel:	Haywood Henry (bs, cl) Joe Newman (tp) Hank Jones (p) George Duvivier (b) Ben Riley (d) Don Sickler (arr)
Tracks:	The Gentle Monster / Put Yourself In My Place / Good Morning Heartache / Going Uptown / Blue Sunrise / Hayride Time / You Don’t Know What Love Is / Onion Stew / Stuffy
Location:	Englewood Cliffs
Producer:	Robert E. Sunenblick / Mark Feldman
Liner Notes:
Research Comments:	For this, the Uptown label’s first session, co-producer Mark Feldman remembers “the exact reason we went to Rudy’s. I was talking with Hank Jones – we were possibly going to do the session at this studio in New York City – and I asked him about the piano. And he said, ‘Well, the piano’s not very good. In fact, the pianos are not very good in any of the studios. The two best pianos in studios around the New York area are both at Rudy Van Gelder’s. If you really want a good piano sound, that’s where you go.’”
Status Notes:
Sources:	TL MFL BSB AJ