If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem

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Released November 1970 Artist The Joe Henderson Quintet Producer Orrin Keepnews Genre Jazz		Length 45:15 Release date November 1970 Label Milestone Records

Recorded September 24–26, 1970Lighthouse Café, Hermosa Beach If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem(1970) In Pursuit of Blackness(1971) Similar In Pursuit of Blackness, Black Is the Color, Black Miracle, Joe Henderson in Japan, Black Narcissus

Joe henderson if you re not part of the solution you re part of the problem

If You're Not Part of the Solution, You're Part of the Problem is the eleventh album by American jazz tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson. It was rereleased in 2004 as At the Lighthouse, with an alternative album cover listing the personnel in place of the original title and several extra tracks.

Reception

The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow states that "this live session from the legendary Lighthouse features a particularly strong version of the Joe Henderson Quintet" and contains "excellent remakes of 'Mode for Joe' and 'Blue Bossa' ... and a fine rendition of ''Round Midnight'." The Penguin Guide to Jazz commented that "Henderson and Shaw play some of the leader's choicest compositions in a steaming live showcase, one of the most fondly remembered Henderson albums of the period."