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Horace Silver: Retrospective
by Douglas Payne
The hugeness of Horace Silver's musical legacy remains unforgivably unavailable. Blue Note Records, to which the pianist and composer gave outlet to his vast and historically significant discography over a full quarter century, is easily to blame for such inexcusable oversight. This four-disc collection, however, attempts to amass Silver's significance in one fell swoop. Designed as ...
Horace Silver: Retrospective
by C. Andrew Hovan
We really don't have many living jazz legends walking around these days, but fortunately we're lucky enough to still have Horace Silver going strong (just check out his new release, Jazz Has a Sense of Humor, if you need proof) and maintaining the jazz tradition that he's so intimately tied to. Over the course of 26 ...
The Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note Editions
by C. Andrew Hovan
As far as jazz goes from the hard bop era, two names are synonymous with their groundbreaking work of the period-Blue Note Records and recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder. Blue Note released a canon of recordings that have been revered by collectors and musicians alike over the years and Van Gelder was the man behind the ...
Horace Silver: A Prescription For The Blues
by Douglas Payne
With A Prescription For The Blues, 69-year-old pianist Horace Silver proves he's writing and playing as well as -- if not better than -- he did over four decades ago. But mere stamina is no reason to appreciate this terrific remedy of first-rate bop-n-blues. The “hard bop grandpop" has assembled a classy all-star lineup, reuniting with ...
Horace Silver Quintet: Six Pieces of Silver
by Joel Roberts
This 1956 recording by the Silver Quintet, featuring Hank Mobley on tenor sax and Donald Byrd on trumpet, is pure hard-bop heaven created by some of the masters of the genre. After spending the previous two years playing piano on some of Miles Davis' classic Prestige and Blue Note albums, and touring with the Art Blakey ...
New York City, Birdland Club, February 21, 1954
By Art Blakey
Label: Giants of Jazz
Released: 1996
Track listing: Split Kick; Once In A While; Quicksilver; A Night In Tunisia; Mayreh; Wee-Dot; If I Had You; The Way You Look Tonight; Now's The Time; Confirmation; (Final:) Lullaby Of Birdland;
