(Pre Order) Joe Henderson & Woody Shaw - Jazz Patterns - The 'In' Groove Exclusive LP *

Release Date: June 6, 2025

Available only at The 'In' Groove - Limited to 150 copies!

Remastered, "Lake Erie" Blue Colored Vinyl, Includes New Liner Notes.

“Diamond in the rough” doesn’t begin to describe the number of carats this long-lost jazz treasure wields, nor the depths of its humble origins. Originally released in 1982 on the budget Everest label, Jazz Patterns was all-too-carelessly assembled collection of 1970 live  recordings from saxophonist Joe Henderson’s Quintet, re-titled to give trumpeter Woody Shaw co-billing to capitalize on his subsequent commercial success. A few copies were made, sold for under 5 bucks each, and that was that. But, as Skip Heller’s liner notes (which we’ve added) reveal, what this shoddy little package (it didn’t even have the correct song titles for two of the tracks and misspelled the one it got right) actually contained was, get this, previously unreleased performances from the same September 24-26, 1970 stand at The Lighthouse Café in Hermosa Beach that yielded Henderson’s revered 1970 release If You’re Not Part of the Solution, You’re Part of the Problem! Turns out Milestone label head Orrin Keepnews had turned around and sold these 2-track reference mixes (recorded by Bernie Grundman!) to Everest owner Bernie Solomon, who went ahead and did his usual down-market, take the money and run thing. That’s George Cables on electric piano, Ron McClure on bass, and Lenny White (using a bass drum fashioned from an oil can) on drums, by the way. We’re reissuing this fantastic post-bop find for the first time ever, complete with the aforementioned liner notes, the correct song titles, and a new remastering job by Kevin Chubirka that sounds about a hundred times better than the original.

150 copies pressed in "Lake Erie" Blue Vinyl, exclusive to The 'In' Groove.

Dig you must!

Features:

• First ever US reissue (since release in 1982) / First global reissue since 1983 (Portugal pressing released in 1983)
• Dedicated Color + Effect of choice with The 'In' Groove marketing sticker
  
• Recorded in September 1970, live at The Lighthouse, in Hermosa Beach, California

Musicians:

• Bass – Ron McClure
  
• Drums – Lenny White
  
• Electric Bass – Ron McClure
  
• Electric Piano – George Cables
  
• Flugelhorn – Woody Shaw
  
• Tenor Saxophone – Joe Henderson
  
• Trumpet – Woody Shaw

Tracks:

A1. Invitation

A2. Punjab

B1. Power to the People