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Page OnePage OneJoe Henderson · 1963 (1963) was HendersonJoe Hendersonジョー・ヘンダーソン's Blue Note debut. The album introduced 'Recorda Me' and 'Blue Bossa,' two tunes that quickly became standards and thrust Henderson to the center of the scene. McCoy Tyner was simultaneously deep in his Coltrane years.

The Sidewinder (1964) is a Lee Morgan hard-bop date, yet its title track became an unexpected commercial hit on jukeboxes and the charts — a straight-ahead session that boosted Blue Note enough that imitation openers followed for years. Joe Henderson, known as a cerebral tenor, is at the center of it.

McCoy Tyner said of Joe Henderson, his front line on The Real McCoy (1967), that you could tell whose sound it was in one note. That same instantly identifiable tenor turns up in the credits of an R&B album in 1982, a long way from the Blue Note session.

Kenny Dorham died in 1972. Decades later, an unreleased Blue Note tape of his was unearthed and layered with a new rhythm section for the 2021 album Deciphering the Message, giving the performance its first release only after his death.

In 1962-63, Butch Warren was the house bassist behind landmark Blue Note sessions -- Joe Henderson's Page One, Herbie Hancock's Takin' Off among them. Within a few years he vanished from the jazz world entirely, living in obscurity back home in Washington, D.C., and was only rediscovered decades later, not long before his death in 2013.