Joe Henderson discography

This is the discography for American jazz musician Joe Henderson.

Year indicates (latest) recording date; releases were usually in the same year or at least the following, otherwise noted. Albums without available recording dates are placed at the end of presumed year of recording.[1]

As leader

Year of recording	Album	Notes	Label
1963	Page One	Quintet with Kenny Dorham, McCoy Tyner, Butch Warren and Pete La Roca	Blue Note
1963	Our Thing	Quintet with Kenny Dorham, Andrew Hill, Eddie Khan and Pete La Roca	Blue Note
1964	In 'n Out	Quintet with Kenny Dorham, McCoy Tyner, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones	Blue Note
1964	Inner Urge	Quartet with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw and Elvin Jones	Blue Note
1966	Mode for Joe	Septet with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers	Blue Note
1967	The Kicker	Sextet with Mike Lawrence, Grachan Moncur III, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter and Louis Hayes	Milestone
1967-68	Tetragon	Quartets with Kenny Barron/Don Friedman, Ron Carter and Louis Hayes/Jack DeJohnette	Milestone
1968	Four	Live – Quartet with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb	Verve
1968	Straight, No Chaser	Live – Quartet with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb	Verve
1969	Power to the People	Quartet/Quintet with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Mike Lawrence	Milestone
1970	If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem	Live – Quintet/Sextet with Woody Shaw, George Cables, Ron McClure, Lenny White and Tony Waters. Expanded re-release in 2004 as At the Lighthouse.	Milestone
1970-71	In Pursuit of Blackness	Live – Sextet with Woody Shaw, George Cables, Ron McClure, Lenny White and Tony Waters Studio – Sextet with Curtis Fuller, Pete Yellin, George Cables, Stanley Clarke and Lenny White	Milestone
1971	Joe Henderson in Japan	Live – Quartet with Hideo Ichikawa, Kunimitsu Inaba and Motohiko Hino	Milestone
1972	Black Is the Color	Quintet/Octet with George Cables, David Horowitz, Georg Wadenius, Dave Holland, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette, Airto Moreira, and Ralph MacDonald	Milestone
1973	Multiple	Quintet/Sextet with Larry Willis, James Ulmer, John Thomas, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette and Arthur Jenkins	Milestone
1973	The Elements	Quintet/Septet with Alice Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Kenneth Nash, Baba Duru Oshun and Michael White	Milestone
1973	Canyon Lady	Sextet + Brass Section with Mark Levine, John Heard, Eric Gravatt, Carmelo Garcia, Victor Pantoja, Julian Priester, Luis Gasca, George Duke, Oscar Brashear, John Hunt, Hadley Caliman, Ray Pizzi, Vincent Denham, Nicholas Tenbroek, and Francisco Aguabella	Milestone
1975	Black Miracle	Ensemble with Oscar Brashear, Snooky Young, George Bohanon, Don Waldrop, Hadley Caliman, Dawilli Gonga, Lee Ritenour, Ron Carter, Harvey Mason and Bill Summers	Milestone
1974-75	Black Narcissus	Quintets with Joachim Kühn, Patrick Gleeson, David Friesen/Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Daniel Humair/Jack DeJohnette and Bill Summers	Milestone
1977	Barcelona	Trio with Wayne Darling and Ed Soph	Enja
1979	Relaxin' at Camarillo	Quartets with Chick Corea, Richard Davis/Tony Dumas and Peter Erskine/Tony Williams	Contemporary
1980	Mirror Mirror	Quartet with Chick Corea, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins	MPS
1985	The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2	Live – Trio with Ron Carter and Al Foster	Blue Note
1987	An Evening with Joe Henderson	Live – Trio with Charlie Haden and Al Foster	Red
1987	More from an Evening with Joe Henderson	Live – Trio with Charlie Haden and Al Foster	Red
1991	The Standard Joe	Trio with Rufus Reid and Al Foster	Red
1991	Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn	Quintet with Wynton Marsalis, Stephen Scott, Christian McBride and Gregory Hutchinson	Verve
1993	So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)	Quartet with John Scofield, Dave Holland and Al Foster	Verve
1995	Double Rainbow: The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim	Quartet/Quintet with Eliane Elias/Herbie Hancock, Oscar Castro-Neves, Nico Assumpção/Christian McBride and Paulo Braga/Jack DeJohnette	Verve
1992-96	Big Band	Big Band with Dick Oatts, Pete Yellin, Steve Wilson, Bobby Porcelli, Craig Handy, Rich Perry, Tim Ries, Charles Pillow, Joe Temperley, Gary Smulyan, Freddie Hubbard, Raymond Vega, Idrees Sulieman, Jimmy Owens, Jon Faddis, Lew Soloff, Marcus Belgrave, Nicholas Payton, Tony Kadleck, Michael Mossman, Virgil Jones, Earl Gardner, Byron Stripling, Conrad Herwig, Jimmy Knepper, Robin Eubanks, Keith O'Quinn, Larry Farrell, Kiane Zawadi, David Taylor, Douglas Purviance, Chick Corea, Helio Alves, Ronnie Mathews, Christian McBride, Joe Chambers, Al Foster, Lewis Nash and Paulinho Braga	Verve
1997	Porgy & Bess	Septet with Conrad Herwig, John Scofield, Stefon Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Chaka Khan and Sting	Verve

As sideman

Sortable table

Date	Leading artist	Album	Label	Notes
1963	Kenny Dorham	The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963	Uptown	released 2009
1963	Kenny Dorham	Una Mas	Blue Note
1963	Grant Green	Am I Blue	Blue Note
1963	Antonio Diaz "Chocolaté" Mena	Eso Es Latin Jazz...Man!	Audio Fidelity	Henderson solo on one track
1963	Johnny Coles	Little Johnny C	Blue Note
1963	Blue Mitchell	Step Lightly	Blue Note	released 1980
1963	Grant Green	Idle Moments	Blue Note
1963	Andrew Hill	Black Fire	Blue Note
1963	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	Blue Note
1963	Bobby Hutcherson	The Kicker	Blue Note	released 1999
1964	Freddie Roach	Brown Sugar	Blue Note
1964	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	Blue Note
1964	Grant Green	Solid	Blue Note	released 1979
1964	Kenny Dorham	Trompeta Toccata	Blue Note
1964	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Blue Note
1964	Duke Pearson	Wahoo!	Blue Note
1964	Horace Silver	Live 1964	Emerald
1965	Freddie Hubbard	Blue Spirits	Blue Note
1965	Andrew Hill	Pax	Blue Note	released in part 1975, as a whole 2006
1965	Pete La Roca	Basra	Blue Note
1965	Horace Silver	The Cape Verdean Blues	Blue Note
1965	Lee Morgan	The Rumproller	Blue Note
1965	Larry Young	Unity	Blue Note
1965	Woody Shaw	In the Beginning	Muse	released 1983, expanded re-issue in 1989 as Cassandranite
1966	Nat Adderley	Sayin' Somethin'	Atlantic
1966	Joe Zawinul	Money in the Pocket	Atlantic
1966	Bobby Hutcherson	Stick-Up!	Blue Note
1966	Lee Morgan	Delightfulee	Blue Note
1966	Nat Adderley	Live at Memory Lane	Atlantic
1966	Herbie Hancock	Blow-Up (soundtrack)	MGM
1966	Duke Pearson	Sweet Honey Bee	Blue Note
1966	Roy Ayers	Virgo Vibes	Atlantic
1967	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	Blue Note
1968	Nat Adderley	The Scavenger	Milestone
1969	Herbie Hancock	The Prisoner	Blue Note
1969	George Benson	Tell It Like It Is	A&M/CTI
1969	Miroslav Vitouš	Infinite Search	Embryo	released 1970, aka Mountain in the Clouds 1972
1969	Herbie Hancock	Fat Albert Rotunda	Warner
1970	Mose Allison	Hello There, Universe	Atlantic
1970	Alice Coltrane	Ptah, the El Daoud	Impulse!
1970	Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay	CTI
1970	Freddie Hubbard	Straight Life	CTI
1971	Blue Mitchell	Vital Blue	Mainstream
1971	Luis Gasca	For Those Who Chant	Blue Thumb
1971	Bill Cosby	Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown and the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band	Uni
1972	Bill Evans / George Russell Orchestra	Living Time	Columbia
1973	David Amram	Subway Night	RCA Victor
1973	Babatunde Olatunji	Soul Makossa	Paramount
1973	Ron Carter	All Blues	CTI
1973	Johnny Hammond	Higher Ground	Kudu
1973	Flora Purim	Butterfly Dreams	Milestone
1973	Charles Earland	Leaving This Planet	Prestige
1974	Luis Gasca	Born to Love You	Fantasy
1974	Patrice Rushen	Prelusion	Prestige
1975	Kenny Burrell	Ellington Is Forever, Ellington Is Forever Volume Two	Fantasy
1976	Coke Escovedo	Comin' at Ya!	Mercury
1976	Roy Ayers	Daddy Bug & Friends	Atlantic
1976	Rick Laird	Soft Focus	Timeless Muse
1977	Flora Purim	Encounter	Milestone
1977	Richard Davis	Fancy Free	Galaxy
1977	Richard Davis	Way Out West	Muse	released 1980, from the same 2-day session as Fancy Free
1977	Woody Shaw	Rosewood	Columbia
1978	Freddie Hubbard	Super Blue	Columbia
1979	Roy Haynes	Vistalite	Galaxy
1979	Jerry Rusch	Rush Hour	Jeru/Inner City
1979	Ron Carter	Parade	Milestone
1979	Art Farmer	Yama	CTI
1979	J. J. Johnson	Pinnacles	Milestone
1980	George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band	Live at the "Quartier Latin" Berlin	MPS
1980	Joanne Brackeen	Ancient Dynasty	Tappan Zee
1980	James Leary	Legacy	Blue Collar
1980	(All-Star Band)	Aurex Jazz Festival: Jazz of the 80's	Eastworld
1981	Chick Corea	Live in Montreux	Stretch	released 1994
1981	Freddie Hubbard	A Little Night Music	Fantasy	released 1983
1981	Lenny White	Echoes of an Era	Elektra Musician
1981	Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Lenny White	The Griffith Park Collection	Elektra Musician
1982	Mal Waldron	One Entrance, Many Exits	Palo Alto
1982	Lenny White	The Griffith Park Collection 2: In Concert	Elektra Musician
1982	Lenny White	Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert	Elektra Musician
1983	Dave Friesen	Amber Skies	Palo Alto
1986	Randy Brecker	In the Idiom	Denon
1986	The Paris Reunion Band	For Klook	Gazell
1987	Wynton Marsalis	Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1	Columbia	released 1991
1987	Neil Swainson	49th Parallel	Concord
1987	Akio Sasajima	Akio with Joe Henderson	Muse
1987	Cindy Blackman	Arcane	Muse
1987	George Gruntz Concert Band '87	Happening Now!	HatART
1987	The Paris Reunion Band	Hot Licks	Sonet
1988	Frank Morgan	Reflections	Contemporary
1988	Arnett Cobb, Jimmy Heath, Joe Henderson	Tenor Tribute	Soul Note
1988	The Paris Reunion Band	Jazzbühne Berlin '88	Amiga
1988	Mulgrew Miller	The Countdown	Landmark
1988	Akio Sasajima	Humpty Dumpty	BRC Jam
1988	Jon Ballantyne	Sky Dance	Justin Time
1989	Charlie Haden / Joe Henderson / Al Foster	Tribute to Joe Henderson	Verve	released 2004
1989	Donald Byrd	Getting Down to Business	Landmark
1990	Renee Rosnes	For the Moment	Blue Note
1990	Ernie Wilkins	Kaleido Duke	Birdology
1990	Kevin Hays	El matador	Evidence
1990	Bruce Hornsby	A Night on the Town	BMG	Henderson on two tracks
1991	Donald Byrd	A City Called Heaven	Landmark
1991	Rebecca Coupe Franks	Suite of Armor	Justice
1991	McCoy Tyner	New York Reunion	Chesky
1991	Donald Brown	Cause and Effect	Muse
1991	Valery Ponomarev	Profile	Reservoir
1991	Walter Norris	Sunburst	Concord
1991	Todd Coolman	Lexicon	Double-Time
1991	James Williams	James Williams Meets the Saxophone Masters	DIW/Columbia
1991	Joe Gilman	Treasure Chest	Timeless
1991	Rickie Lee Jones	Pop Pop	Geffen	Henderson on two tracks
1992	Kenny Garrett	Black Hope	Warner Bros.
1992	Bruce Forman	Forman on the Job	Kamei	Henderson on four tracks
1992	Mulgrew Miller	Hand in Hand	Novus
1993	Bheki Mseleku	Timelessness	Verve	Henderson on one track
1994	Kitty Margolis	Evolution	Mad-Kat	Henderson on five tracks
1994	Roy Hargrove	With the Tenors of Our Time	Verve	Henderson on two tracks
1994	James Williams	Up to the Minute Blues	DIW	Henderson on four tracks
1995	Shirley Horn	The Main Ingredient	Verve	Henderson on two tracks
1998	Terence Blanchard	Jazz in Film	Sony

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References

1. Cf. Joe Henderson Discography & Chronology at Jazz Discography. Retrieved November 25, 2012
2. Jazz great Henderson gets musical start in Lima the419 | Our Founders Archived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Machine
3. Original liner notes to Page One by Kenny Dorham
4. Mel Martin, Interview with Joe Henderson Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine, in The Saxophone Journal, March/April 1991. Retrieved April 24, 2007.
5. Scott Yanow, Allmusic Biography Retrieved June 25, 2009.