"Moist" Paula Henderson
Most of these pix were taken by Ginny Suss
Influences
Mostly I’m influenced by vocalists such as Diana Ross, Dolly Parton and D’Angelo, but a lot of my favorite saxophone players, who definitely influence me, are friends who I’ve been lucky enough to play with in New York -- James Chance, Tim Otto, Matana Roberts, Stuart Bogie, Martin Perna, Colin Stetson, Micah Gaugh, Avram Fefer and Cedric IM Brooks. Oh, and David Murray. I love King Curtis, Junior Walker and Eddie Harris and John Lurie & The Lounge Lizards. My favorite instrument is trombone. Living in New York influences and inspires me night and day.
This guy on the left is a huge influence -- here we are contorting ourselves at The Cooler, 2001:
Sounds Like
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I played with TV on the Radio on Letterman - felt like the big time!!
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I got the name "Moist" Paula when I formed the band Moisturizer with Moist Gina Rodriguez in 1998. Up until then I had been having fun playing sax with a lot of great bands and musicians in Australia and New York, many of whom I still play with. Since the day my friend Paul Cumming knocked on my door with a tenor sax in his hand saying "this is yours for a month and if you like it you have to come up with $400", I've had many exciting saxophonic adventures, particularly since as a result of what turned out to be an opportune theft I switched to bari, which I've wielded live and/or in the studio with many of my musical heroes including James Chance & The Contortions, Gogol Bordello, TV on the Radio, The Roots, Martin Luther & Cody Chesnutt, Ed Kuepper and many more. Moisturizer is still my main musical squeeze and in New York I continue to play every week with Reverend Vince Anderson & The Love Choir (in our 12th year!); and Burnt Sugar: The Arkestra Chamber, Greg Tate's conducted improvised orchestral organism. At the end of 2006 I quit my part-time secretary job and started a solo saxtronic project, Secretary. I recorded and released my first solo album, Secret Life of Secretary and performed the material in a variety of spaces including a storefront gallery, a theatre, a coffee shop, a cinema, rock clubs and All Tomorrows Parties festival. Then I got lonely and turned it into a collaborative duo called SECRETARY feat. BigBoss. As part of The Hedonistic Horns, I have recorded and performed with Derrin Maxwell, The Dry Yai crew of Sierra Leone, The Bogmen, GanoRyan, Deepa Soul, Wakey Wakey, Looker, Shelley Nicole and many others. And I always want more!
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