Fletcher Henderson has been played on NTS in shows including NTS 10 Curated by My Bloody Valentine , featured first on 19 April 2021. Songs played include Happy As The Day Is Long.

Born James Fletcher Henderson December 18th, 1897, in Cuthbert, Georgia and died December 28th, 1952 due to a stroke.

Fletcher Henderson was very important to early jazz as leader of the first great jazz big band, as an arranger and composer in the 1930s, and as a masterful talent scout. Between 1923-1939, quite an all-star cast of top young black jazz musicians passed through his orchestra, including trumpeters Louis Armstrong, Joe Smith,…