Bobby Henderson (April 16, 1910 – December 9, 1969) was an American jazz musician, who also performed under the name Jody Bolden.
[2][3] Henderson began playing piano at the age of nine, and some years later studied bookkeeping in college.
[4][1] During his career in music, he was known as a warm, kind and gentle person, who lived quietly with his mother.
[6] This did not occur, as Henderson had largely disappeared from music at that time[7] Henderson was briefly engaged to the teenaged Billie Holiday in 1934,[3] whom he met and accompanied at the nightclub Pod's and Jerry's, but on December 1 that year the New York Age announced that he was no longer engaged to her.
[8] Subsequent to the termination of his engagement to Billie Holiday, Henderson went into self-imposed exile for over twenty years.