Don Was in Detroit - 1966
from Uncompromising Expression: Blue Note, page 19:
One Sunday in !966, I was driving around Detroit with my Mom and playing with the radio in our car. The dial landed on 1440AM just as Joe Henderson’s sax solo from ‘Mode for Joe’ was kicking off….this was my first real exposure to jazz and it totally blew my mind! For a theoretical standpoint, I had no idea what those musicians were doing…nonetheless the music spoke to me on a deep, conversational level. Joe begins his solo with anguished cries that allow you to project your own personal frustrations on them (that particular day, my sources of angst were most… more >>
Richard Havers, Uncompromising Expression: Blue Note (2014), p. 19. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1416504560794 accessed: 12 October, 2024
Listeners
Listening to
hide composersMode for Joe | performed by Joe Henderson |
Experience Information
Date/Time | 1966 |
Medium | broadcast |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |
Notes
The music was probably broadcast from the well-known Blue Note LP Mode for Joe, recorded January 27 1966 at Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA