 This did not occur, given that Henderson had largely disappeared from music at that time

Henderson was briefly engaged to the teenaged Billie Holiday in 1934, 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.Subsequent to the termination of his engagement to Billie Holiday, Henderson went into self-imposed exile for over twenty years.He changed his name to Jody Bolden, in honor of jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden who, suffering from schizophrenia, had died in an asylum in 1931.