Mode for Joe

Mode for Joe
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 1966
RecordedJanuary 27, 1966
StudioVan Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs
GenreJazz, post-bop, modal jazz
Length49:27 (2003 release)
LabelBlue Note
ProducerAlfred Lion
Joe Henderson chronology
Inner Urge
(1965)
Mode for Joe
(1966)
The Kicker
(1967)

Mode for Joe is the fifth studio album by American jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson, recorded and released in 1966. Featuring Henderson with a larger than usual ensemble consisting of trumpeter Lee Morgan, trombonist Curtis Fuller, vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Joe Chambers, it was Henderson’s last Blue Note recording as leader until the live albums The State of the Tenor, Vols. 1 & 2 almost 20 years later.