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Horace Silver: Finger Poppin
by Rex Butters
Horace Silver’s trademark features--often sunny compositions and treacherous, tight arrangements as well as his preferred quintet format and enthusiastic embrace of bop, Latin, blues, and folk melodies--mark him as a mid-century creative wellspring that continues to inform jazz. Along with Art Blakey, Silver helped create what became known as the Blue Note sound. Swing era listeners ...
Horace Silver: Paris Blues: Olympia Theater, Paris, 1962
by C. Michael Bailey
This is the classic Horace Silver Quintet. It existed and recorded here while Miles was between his two great quintets, just before Art Blakey recorded Caravan with Curtis Fuller and Wayne Shorter, and while John Coltrane was assembling his classic quartet. This concert takes place almost half way between Finger Poppin' With the Horace Silver Quintet ...
The Funk Transition
by AAJ Staff
Some time back a student of music, Chris, wrote to me an email, asking a very interesting question: “Why is it that some jazz musicians preferred to adopt funk instead of jazz-rock when the transition took place." There were more sub-queries, but this itself is a calls for a thesis, just as he was writing one. ...
Social Skills
by AAJ Staff
We, as a society, are rapidly losing all of our important social skills. I'm not talking about etiquette things, like which one is the salad fork. I'm talking about the skills needed to have any type of meaningful interaction with our fellow human beings. Things seem to be conspiring to keep us more and more isolated. ...
Dave Douglas: Moving the Music Forward
by David Adler
There aren't many artists who release records two at a time, but trumpeter Dave Douglas has done it already this year with Leap of Faith, a quartet date for Arabesque, and Soul On Soul, a sextet session for RCA Victor which pays tribute to the late pianist and composer Mary Lou Williams. On top of that, ...
Jazz Has A Sense Of Humor
Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 1999
Track listing: Satisfaction Guaranteed;
The Mama Suite Part 1: Not Enough Mama;
The Mama Suite Part 2: Too Much Mama;
The Mama Suite Part 3: Just Right Mama;
Philley Millie;
Ah-Ma-Tell;
I Love Annie's Fanny;
Gloria;
Where Do I Go from Here?.
Retrospective
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Disc One:Safari; Ecaroh; Opus De Funk; Doodlin'; The Preacher; Cool Eyes; Senor Blues; Home Cookin'; Soulville; The Outlaw; Senor Blues (Vocal Version); Swingin' The Samba; Cookin' At The Continental; Juicy Lucy
Disc Two:Sister Sadie; Peace; Blowin' The Blues Away; Strollin'; Nica's Dream; Filthy McNasty; The Tokyo Blues; Sayonara Blues; Silver's Serenade
Disc Three:Song For My Father; Que Pasa; The Cape Verdean Blues; Nutville; The Jody Grind; Mexican Hip Dance; Serenade To A Soul Sister; Psychedelic Sally; It's Time; The Happy Medium; Peace; Old Mother Nature Calls
Disc Four:How Much Does Matter Really Matter; All; In Pursuit Of The 27th Man; Gregory Is Here; Barbara; Adjustment; The Tranquilizer Suite; The Process Of Creation Suite; All In Time; The Soul And It's Expression.
Walkin'
By Miles Davis
Label: Prestige Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Walkin'; Blue 'n' Boogie; Solar, You Don't Know What Love Is; Love Me or Leave Me.
Horace Silver: Jazz Has A Sense Of Humor
by John Sharpe
Listening to any new release by Horace Silver is a lot like hearing your favourite comedian tell a joke for the umpteenth time—you know the punch line, but you laugh anyway! Since he left Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers in 1956, Silver has written and produced a number of classic tunes that have become jazz standards. Over ...
