Brad Henderson spent 5 years touring abroad with Up With People as a
bandleader, bassist, sound engineer and show manager. Later, Henderson
worked for Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma as the
manager of the NSU Jazz Lab. Brad honed his arranging skills there
while teaching music technology, electric bass and directing various
student jazz groups. He is still active throughout the region as an
adjudicator and clinician. He also served for 5 years as the
director/pianist of the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame. Henderson's
arranging credits include The Tulsa Philharmonic, The Tulsa Signature
Symphony (Sinfonia), the Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra, The Walton
Arts Center, FBC Atlanta and literally hundreds of other churches
around the world. Brad produced the sound track and orchestral
arrangement for Dennis Jernigan's I Salute You. Many of Brad's other
arrangements can be found online at www.praisecharts.com in the Henderson Jazz Series and other series for praise team. 
In fall of 2007, I received an
email from a customer in Poland. He had used some of our charts
and was curious about the chances of PraiseCharts writing arrangements of his
original music. He sent me a few audio demos of worship tunes he had written and
though they were in the Polish language, which I don't speak, I could still
clearly understand his heart and love for God. We swapped emails for several
more months and he began penning translations to each song so I could get a
better grasp on the focus of the tune in question.
One thing led to another, as often happens in these situations and we came up with the idea he should make a CD AND come to Oklahoma to record a English version of that CD. So...last month, Tomasz Jasinski visited the USA for the 1st time. Of all the scenic, historic, vibrant places he could have experienced here in this great country, he stayed in Oklahoma! He stayed in our spare bedroom and we lived life together in the studio, literally for 10 days. Translating songs from Polish to English proved challenging and though his English is wonderfully fluent, we worked several days on phrasing, how could we better say this, that kind of stuff.
Our praise team learned one of his songs while he was here and he led us in that on a Sunday morning. God moved! My friend Steve took Tomasz out for a spin in his little red Miata convertible. We sampled every possible food, things he couldn't get back home, and tried to explain American football. It turns out that not only does Tomasz write great music, he's a wonderful cook as well. What a blast and what a blessing!
As is the case with many worship CD s, not everything we recorded has corporate worship written all over it but I was surprised to find myself drawn into using in our own services several of the 10 tunes we recorded. Check out Blessed Be Breathe Your Spirit and Psalm 18:1 here at PraiseCharts.
Tomasz wrote this about his experience:
"There are some things in life that
make me speechless...Recording experience with Brad was definitely one of them!
If you are looking for outstanding musical skills and affordable recording
service but also for Christ-like heart and character - there's no better place
to go! Thank you Brad! This was my real honor and pleasure to meet you and to
have this project done with you, God bless!" - Tomasz
Jasinski
No, Tomasz, the honor was
ours! - Brad Henderson, Arranger - Praise
Charts