Forces of Nature

Joe Henderson and McCoy Tyner on fire, Appalachia under water

The only time I interviewed tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, it was over the phone, in the mid-1990s. The tape and the transcript are lost to time, unless there’s a microcassette buried in a box in the basement. Anyway, Joe was out on tour, and I began by asking whether his travels had been disrupted by heavy rainfall and historic flooding in the midwes…