3LP version. Originally recorded and released in 1970, the Joe Henderson Quintet's At The Lighthouse: If You're Not Part Of The Solution, You're Part Of The Problem sees the influential saxophonist performing at the legendary venue in Hermosa Beach, California. Joined by George Cables, Ron McClure, Woody Shaw, Tony Waters and Lenny White, the original album contained 6 live cuts. This 180g 3-LP deluxe edition adds 5 unreleased tracks along with new liner notes from author Eugene Holley Jr. The title is a line from Eldridge Cleaver. The record has no words on it. In November 1970 Milestone printed the phrase in quotation marks on the cover of a club date from Hermosa Beach, and left Henderson's tenor to say the rest.

The music was taped in actual performance at the Lighthouse Cafe on 24, 25 and 26 September 1970 by Bernie Grundman and first issued as MSP 9028, produced and annotated by Orrin Keepnews. Henderson was 33 and at a turning point. The Blue Note run was behind him - Page One, Inner Urge, Mode for Joe - and so was a stint in Herbie Hancock's Sextet; he had finally put together a working band of his own, and it plays electric. Cables is on electric piano throughout, McClure doubles on electric bass, Waters adds congas on three pieces, and the twenty-year-old Lenny White, a year on from Bitches Brew and later of Return to Forever, is on drums. Woody Shaw, Henderson's front-line partner in Horace Silver's quintet five years earlier, takes the trumpet and flugelhorn chair. The quintet toured the US and Canada for another year and never recorded again.

The original six tracks are Henderson's own book played by a different kind of band: Caribbean Fire Dance and Cedar Walton's Mode for Joe from the Blue Note years, Kenny Dorham's Blue Bossa from Page One, a slow, nine-minute reading of Thelonious Monk's 'Round Midnight, the eleven-minute title piece and the brief Closing Theme. These are long, open readings in which Henderson stretches his tenor over modal vamps and Latin rhythms, far from the studio versions of the 1960s. The tunes were written for acoustic quintets; here they sit on Cables's electric piano and White's heavier, more broken time, and both horns respond by playing longer and harder. Holley calls Henderson's sound "solid, like a laser". Shaw, 25 at the time, matches him chorus for chorus. It is also a very well recorded club date: the room is audible, the separation is wide, and listeners have been saying so about the original pressings for years.

The second disc gathers what trickled out later. Recorda Me, A Shade of Jade and Isotope first surfaced on the Milestone Years box; Invitation and Gazelle were used on In Pursuit of Blackness in 1971, and Gazelle was dropped from the 2004 CD for lack of space. Then come the five performances nobody has heard: Shaw's The Moontrane, Henderson's Black Narcissus, White's Olive Oil, and alternate takes of Mode for Joe and the title piece, newly mixed from the original four-track tapes.