Jason Hainsworth Quintet - featuring Jalen Baker: Joe Henderson & Bobby Hutcherson Tribute - 04-17-2026 at SFJAZZ, San Francisco

Jason Hainsworth Quintet - featuring Jalen Baker: Joe Henderson & Bobby Hutcherson Tribute
04-17-2026 @ 7:00 PM - Joe Henderson Lab at SFJAZZ, San Francisco

The recorded collaboration of jazz legends Joe Henderson and Bobby Hutcherson is celebrated in April, Henderson’s birthday month, by saxophonist Jason Hainsworth’s quintet featuring vibraphonist Jalen Baker. 

A former student of late New Orleans legend Ellis Marsalis, Houston-born saxophonist and composer Jason Hainsworth emerged from the city’s vaunted High School of the Performing and Visual Arts — the same training ground that produced the likes of Beyoncé, Jason Moran, Robert Glasper, Eric Harland, and Kendrick Scott — and is an in-demand bandleader, sideman, and composer/arranger, and educator whose resume includes work with Renee Rosnes and Johnathan Blake.For this Hotplate, Hainsworth’s quintet is joined by rising young vibraphone phenomenon Jalen Baker, a fellow Houstonite who is making major waves for his work with Ulysses Owens Jr., Jeremy Pelt, and Mwenso and the Shakes.   Together, they shine a light on the musical alchemy of Henderson and Hutcherson, who worked together on several seminal Blue Note releases in the 1960s including Hutcherson’s classics The Kicker (1963) and Stick-Up (1966), Henderson’s landmark Mode For Joe (1966), and guitarist Grant Green’s Idle Moments (1963).  

Tickets - https://www.sfjazz.org/tickets/productions/25-26/hotplate-jason-hainsworth-quintet/