Strode Rode is an instrumental jazz tune composed by Sonny Rollins and credited to him alone. It has no lyrics. It was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey, on June 22, 1956, with Rollins on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano, Doug Watkins on bass and Max Roach on drums. The recording was released on the Prestige album Saxophone Colossus in 1957, where it is track 3 on side one, running 5:17. The album was produced by Bob Weinstock and engineered by Rudy Van Gelder. Billboard gave it a Special Merit notice in April 1957, and DownBeat's Ralph J. Gleason gave it five stars. The Library of Congress added the album to the National Recording Registry in 2016.
The tune is known through the Rollins recording and has been performed by many later groups, including the Gary Bartz Quartet and Bruce Cox and the Bridge Quartet. It is recorded in the key of F.
