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.

As leader

Recording date	Title	Notes	Label	Year released
1963-06	Page One	Quintet with Kenny Dorham, McCoy Tyner, Butch Warren and Pete La Roca	Blue Note	1963
1963-09	Our Thing	Quintet with Kenny Dorham, Andrew Hill, Eddie Khan and Pete La Roca	Blue Note	1964
1964-04	In 'n Out	Quintet with Kenny Dorham, McCoy Tyner, Richard Davis and Elvin Jones	Blue Note	1965
1964-11	Inner Urge	Quartet with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw and Elvin Jones	Blue Note	1966
1966-01	Mode for Joe	Septet with Lee Morgan, Curtis Fuller, Bobby Hutcherson, Cedar Walton, Ron Carter and Joe Chambers	Blue Note	1966
1967-08	The Kicker	Sextet with Mike Lawrence, Grachan Moncur III, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter and Louis Hayes	Milestone	1968
1968-04	Four	Live – Quartet with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb	Verve	1994
1968-04	Straight, No Chaser	Live – Quartet with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb	Verve	1996
1967-09, 1968-05	Tetragon	Quartets with Kenny Barron/Don Friedman, Ron Carter and Louis Hayes/Jack DeJohnette	Milestone	1968
1969-05	Power to the People	Quartet/Quintet with Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Mike Lawrence	Milestone	1969
1970-09	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
1970-09	Jazz Patterns	Live – Quintet/Sextet with Woody Shaw, George Cables, Ron McClure, Lenny White and Tony Waters.	Everest	1982
1970-09, 1971-05	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
1971-08	Joe Henderson in Japan	Live – Quartet with Hideo Ichikawa, Kunimitsu Inaba and Motohiko Hino	Milestone	1973
1972-03 or 1972-04	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	1972
1973-01, 1973-02, 1973-04	Multiple	Quintet/Sextet with Larry Willis, James Ulmer, John Thomas, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette and Arthur Jenkins	Milestone	1973
1973-10	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
1973-10	The Elements	Quintet/Septet with Alice Coltrane, Charlie Haden, Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, Kenneth Nash, Baba Duru Oshun and Michael White	Milestone	1974
1975-02	Black Miracle	Ensemble with Oscar Brashear, Snooky Young, George Bohanon, Don Waldrop, Hadley Caliman, Dawilli Gonga (George Duke), Lee Ritenour, Ron Carter, Harvey Mason and Bill Summers	Milestone	1976
1974-10, 1975-04	Black Narcissus	Quintets with Joachim Kühn, Patrick Gleeson, David Friesen/Jean-François Jenny-Clark, Daniel Humair/Jack DeJohnette and Bill Summers	Milestone	1977
1977-06, 1978-11	Barcelona	Trio with Wayne Darling and Ed Soph	Enja	1979
1979-08, 1979-12	Relaxin' at Camarillo	Quartets with Chick Corea, Richard Davis/Tony Dumas and Peter Erskine/Tony Williams	Contemporary	1981
1980-01	Mirror Mirror	Quartet with Chick Corea, Ron Carter and Billy Higgins	MPS	1980
1985-11	The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2	Live – Trio with Ron Carter and Al Foster	Blue Note	1986
1987-07	An Evening with Joe Henderson	Live – Trio with Charlie Haden and Al Foster	Red	1987
1987-07	More from an Evening with Joe Henderson	Live – Trio with Charlie Haden and Al Foster	Red	2009
1991-03	The Standard Joe	Trio with Rufus Reid and Al Foster	Red	1992
1991-09	Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn	Quintet with Wynton Marsalis, Stephen Scott, Christian McBride and Gregory Hutchinson	Verve	1992
1993-10	So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)	Quartet with John Scofield, Dave Holland and Al Foster	Verve	1993
1994-09, 1994-11	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	1995
1992-03, 1996-06	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
1997-05	Porgy & Bess	Septet with Conrad Herwig, John Scofield, Stefon Harris, Tommy Flanagan, Dave Holland, Jack DeJohnette, Chaka Khan and Sting	Verve	1997

As sideman

Sortable table

Year recorded	Leading artist	Album	Label	Year released	Notes
1963	Kenny Dorham	The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963	Uptown	2009
1963	Kenny Dorham	Una Mas	Blue Note	1964
1963	Grant Green	Am I Blue	Blue Note	1964
1963	Antonio Diaz "Chocolaté" Mena	Eso Es Latin Jazz...Man!	Audio Fidelity	1963	1 track solo
1963	Johnny Coles	Little Johnny C	Blue Note	1964
1963	Blue Mitchell	Step Lightly	Blue Note	1980
1963	Grant Green	Idle Moments	Blue Note	1965
1963	Andrew Hill	Black Fire	Blue Note	1964
1963	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	Blue Note	1964
1963	Bobby Hutcherson	The Kicker	Blue Note	1999
1963–64	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Blue Note	1965
1964	Freddie Roach	Brown Sugar	Blue Note	1964
1964	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	Blue Note	1965
1964	Grant Green	Solid	Blue Note	1979
1964	Kenny Dorham	Trompeta Toccata	Blue Note	1965
1964	Duke Pearson	Wahoo!	Blue Note	1965
1964	Horace Silver	Live 1964	Emerald	1984	live
1965	Andrew Hill	Pax	Blue Note	1975	released in part 1975, as a whole 2006
1965	Pete La Roca	Basra	Blue Note	1965
1965	Horace Silver	The Cape Verdean Blues	Blue Note	1966
1965	Lee Morgan	The Rumproller	Blue Note	1966
1965	Larry Young	Unity	Blue Note	1966
1965	Woody Shaw	In the Beginning	Muse	1983	expanded re-issue in 1989 as Cassandranite
1965–66	Freddie Hubbard	Blue Spirits	Blue Note	1967
1966	Nat Adderley	Sayin' Somethin'	Atlantic	1966
1966	Joe Zawinul	Money in the Pocket	Atlantic	1966
1966	Bobby Hutcherson	Stick-Up!	Blue Note	1968
1966	Lee Morgan	Delightfulee	Blue Note	1967
1966	Nat Adderley	Live at Memory Lane	Atlantic	1967	live
1966	Herbie Hancock	Blow-Up (soundtrack)	MGM	1967
1966	Duke Pearson	Sweet Honey Bee	Blue Note	1967
1967	Roy Ayers	Virgo Vibes	Atlantic	1967
1967	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	Blue Note	1967
1968	Nat Adderley	The Scavenger	Milestone	1968
1969	Herbie Hancock	The Prisoner	Blue Note	1969
1969	George Benson	Tell It Like It Is	A&M/CTI	1969
1969	Miroslav Vitouš	Infinite Search	Embryo	1970	aka Mountain in the Clouds 1972
1969	Herbie Hancock	Fat Albert Rotunda	Warner	1969
1969–70	Mose Allison	Hello There, Universe	Atlantic	1970
1970	Alice Coltrane	Ptah, the El Daoud	Impulse!	1970
1970	Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay	CTI	1970
1970	Freddie Hubbard	Straight Life	CTI	1971
1971	Blue Mitchell	Vital Blue	Mainstream	1971
1971	Luis Gasca	For Those Who Chant	Blue Thumb	1972
1971?	Bill Cosby	Bill Cosby Presents Badfoot Brown and the Bunions Bradford Funeral Marching Band	Uni	1971
1972	Bill Evans / George Russell Orchestra	Living Time	Columbia	1972
1973?	David Amram	Subway Night	RCA Victor	1973
1973	Babatunde Olatunji	Soul Makossa	Paramount	1973
1973	Ron Carter	All Blues	CTI	1974
1973	Johnny Hammond	Higher Ground	Kudu	1974
1973	Flora Purim	Butterfly Dreams	Milestone	1973?
1973	Charles Earland	Leaving This Planet	Prestige	1974
1974	Luis Gasca	Born to Love You	Fantasy	1974
1973–74	Patrice Rushen	Prelusion	Prestige	1974
1975	Kenny Burrell	Ellington Is Forever	Fantasy	1975
1975	Kenny Burrell	Ellington Is Forever Volume Two	Fantasy	1977
1975–76	Flora Purim	Encounter	Milestone	1977
1976?	Coke Escovedo	Comin' at Ya!	Mercury	1976
1976	Roy Ayers	Daddy Bug & Friends	Atlantic	1976
1976	Rick Laird	Soft Focus	Timeless	1977	in Netherlands. also from Timeless Muse in U.S..
1977	Richard Davis	Fancy Free	Galaxy	1977
1977	Richard Davis	Way Out West	Muse	1980	from the same 2-day session as Fancy Free
1977	Woody Shaw	Rosewood	Columbia	1978
1977	Roy Haynes	Vistalite	Galaxy	1979
1978	Freddie Hubbard	Super Blue	Columbia	1978
1979?	Jerry Rusch	Rush Hour	Jeru/Inner City	1979
1979	Ron Carter	Parade	Milestone	1980
1979	Art Farmer	Yama	CTI	1979
1979	J. J. Johnson	Pinnacles	Milestone	1980
1979	Joanne Brackeen	Ancient Dynasty	Tappan Zee	1980
1980	George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band	Live at the "Quartier Latin" Berlin	MPS	1981	live
1980	James Leary	Legacy	Blue Collar	1981
1980	V.A.(All-Star Band)	Aurex Jazz Festival '80 - Battle Of The Horns	Eastworld	1980	live
1981	Chick Corea	Live in Montreux	Stretch	1994	live
1981	Freddie Hubbard	A Little Night Music	Fantasy	1983
1981–82	Lenny White	Echoes of an Era	Elektra Musician	1982
1981	Stanley Clarke, Chick Corea, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Lenny White	The Griffith Park Collection	Elektra Musician	1982
1982	Mal Waldron	One Entrance, Many Exits	Palo Alto	1983
1982	Lenny White	The Griffith Park Collection 2: In Concert	Elektra Musician	1983	live
1982	Lenny White	Echoes of an Era 2: The Concert	Elektra Musician	1982	live
1983	Dave Friesen	Amber Skies	Palo Alto	1984
1986	Randy Brecker	In the Idiom	Denon	1987
1986	The Paris Reunion Band	For Klook	Sonet	1987
1987	Wynton Marsalis	Thick in the South: Soul Gestures in Southern Blue, Vol. 1	Columbia	1991
1987	Neil Swainson	49th Parallel	Concord	1989
1987	Akio Sasajima	Akio with Joe Henderson	Muse	1988
1987	Cindy Blackman	Arcane	Muse	1988
1987	George Gruntz Concert Band '87	Happening Now!	HatART	1988
1987	The Paris Reunion Band	Hot Licks	Sonet	1988
1988	Frank Morgan	Reflections	Contemporary	1989
1988	Arnett Cobb, Jimmy Heath, Joe Henderson	Tenor Tribute	Soul Note	1990
1988	The Paris Reunion Band	Jazzbühne Berlin '88	Amiga	1989
1988	Mulgrew Miller	The Countdown	Landmark	1989
1988	Akio Sasajima	Humpty Dumpty	BRC Jam	1990
1988	Jon Ballantyne	Sky Dance	Justin Time	1989
1989	Charlie Haden / Joe Henderson / Al Foster	The Montreal Tapes: Tribute to Joe Henderson	Verve	2004
1989	Donald Byrd	Getting Down to Business	Landmark	1990
1989	Rickie Lee Jones	Pop Pop	Geffen	1991	2 tracks
1989–90	Bruce Hornsby	A Night on the Town	BMG	1990	2 tracks
1990	Renee Rosnes	For the Moment	Blue Note	1990
1990	Ernie Wilkins	Kaleido Duke	Birdology	1994	live
1990	Kevin Hays	El matador	Evidence	1991
1991	Donald Byrd	A City Called Heaven	Landmark	1991
1991?	Rebecca Coupe Franks	Suite of Armor	Justice	1991
1991	McCoy Tyner	New York Reunion	Chesky	1991
1991	Valery Ponomarev	Profile	Reservoir	1991
1991	Walter Norris	Sunburst	Concord	1991
1991	Todd Coolman	Lexicon	Double-Time	1995
1991	James Williams	James Williams Meets the Saxophone Masters	DIW/Columbia	1992
1991	Joe Gilman	Treasure Chest	Timeless	1992
1992?	Donald Brown	Cause and Effect	Muse	1992
1992?	Kenny Garrett	Black Hope	Warner Bros.	1992
1992?	Bruce Forman	Forman on the Job	Kamei	1992	4 tracks
1992	Mulgrew Miller	Hand in Hand	Novus	1993
1993	Bheki Mseleku	Timelessness	Verve	1994	1 track
1994?	Kitty Margolis	Evolution	Mad-Kat	1994	5 tracks
1994	Roy Hargrove	With the Tenors of Our Time	Verve	1994	2 tracks
1994?	James Williams	Up to the Minute Blues	DIW	1994	4 tracks
1995	Shirley Horn	The Main Ingredient	Verve	1996	2 tracks
1998	Terence Blanchard	Jazz in Film	Sony	1999