0 albums as leader and 10 as sideman (1955–1969), each listed chronologically.
Cannonball Adderley With Horace Silver, Paul Chambers, Donald Byrd, Nat Adderley, Jerome Richardson, Kenny Clarke
1955 · Savoy Records
Ernie Wilkins / Frank Wess / Jerome Richardson / Hank Jones / Eddie Jones / Kenny Clarke
1955 · Savoy Records
Trio, The Featuring Hank Jones, Wendell Marshall And Kenny Clarke
1956 · Savoy Records
Michel Legrand - Miles Davis
1959 · Philips
1955 · Julian "Cannonball" Adderley and 2 more
Jerome Richardson worked reed sections across the bebop era — but in 1959 he found himself in a horn section assembled under an arranger's baton, with Miles Davis, already a star bandleader in his own right, sitting in as a sideman.
1955 · Bohemia After Dark
In the 1960s, as a sideman in Horace Silver's band, Joe Henderson said he didn't want to make Silver's music into something other than what Silver had envisioned — he wanted to make it even more exactly what Silver had envisioned. Long before he became known for his own singular voice as a leader, Henderson framed the sideman's job as service, not self-assertion.
— Statement stmt-joe-henderson-on-horace-silver
1969 · The Prisoner
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.
Joe Henderson
