One of the brightest guitarists of his generation, Melvin Henderson has toured extensively in the U.S., Europe and Canada, performing at some of the best national and international Jazz festivals including the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival, Salzburger Jazz Herbst, Markham, Newport and Paetec Jazz Festival as well as at renowned venues such as the Blue Note clubs in New York and Tokyo and the Bee Hive in Boston. Henderson is a member of the Grammy-nominated band Paradigm Shift.