Blues Farm

Joe Henderson is remembered as a master tenor and composer. Yet bassist Ron Carter says he never once turned up with enough material — always two songs, ten minutes short — and would ask the band to compose on the spot: 'We're making an LP here, come on, Joe.'

Billy Cobham's 1973 solo debut Spectrum was built to showcase fusion virtuosity, but the drum break from its track 'Stratus' went on to become one of the most sampled beats in hip-hop production. A record made for musicians' musicians quietly became load-bearing infrastructure for an entirely different genre.