Artist: Joe Henderson

Title: Mode For Joe (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series)

Format: Vinyl LP

Genre: Jazz

UPC: 602455242563

Release Date: 2024

Record Label: Blue Note Records

Album Tracks

DISC 1:
1. A Shade for Jade
2. Mode for Joe
3. Black

DISC 2:
1. Caribbean Fire Dance
2. Granted
3. Free Wheelin'
4. Black (Alternate Take)

Tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson capped off his run of five sublime 1960s Blue Note leader dates with his 1966 classic Mode for Joe, an album bursting with vigor and vitality that found Henderson expanding his palette with a septet of colorful figures including Lee Morgan on trumpet, Curtis Fuller on trombone, Bobby Hutcherson on vibraphone, Cedar Walton on piano, Ron Carter on bass, and Joe Chambers on drums. The band delivers six powerful performances, playing with white-hot intensity on Henderson's originals "A Shade of Jade," Caribbean Fire Dance," and "Granted," as well as Morgan's swinger "Free Wheelin'." But it's the remarkable title track by Walton that emerges as the standout of the set, a modal masterpiece where the leader summons one of his most transcendent and visceral solo statements.