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Best Horace Silver recordings?

downtownrobbrowndowntownrobbrown 446 Posts
edited May 2011 in Strut Central
Your suggestions please. Thanks!

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  • HorseleechHorseleech 3,830 Posts
    He was super consistent so a lot of it depends on what styles you prefer. I couldn't really hang with his later 70's cosmic stuff, though I haven't revisited in years.

    I'm partial to this era:





  • The_Hook_UpThe_Hook_Up 8,182 Posts
    Love me some Horace.
    I find myself listening to "Tokyo Blues" and "at the village gate"(the one with "Filthy McNasty") the most.
  • BlastkidBlastkid 240 Posts
    Yeah there's not much that I would NOT recommend, he is simply my favorite piano player and composer.

    Some of my personal favorites:
    - Serenade To A Soul Sister Lp (Psychedelic Sally, Jungle Juice, title track)
    - Song For My Father (title track & The Natives Are Restless Tonight)
    - Blowing The Blues Away (Sister Sadie)
    - Doin' The Thing At The Village Gate (Very great live session)
    - The Cape Verdian Blues
    - Silver's Serenade
    - You Gotta Take A Little Love
    - Total Response (Won't you open up your senses etc...)

    There's also a late 70s or 80s lp with a hideous cover but that has a killer previously unreleased vocal version of Senor Blues that was recorded in the 60s.
  • FlomotionFlomotion 2,391 Posts
    Blast Kid said:
    Yeah there's not much that I would NOT recommend, he is simply my favorite piano player and composer.

    Some of my personal favorites:
    - Serenade To A Soul Sister Lp (Psychedelic Sally, Jungle Juice, title track)
    - Song For My Father (title track & The Natives Are Restless Tonight)
    - Blowing The Blues Away (Sister Sadie)
    - Doin' The Thing At The Village Gate (Very great live session)
    - The Cape Verdian Blues
    - Silver's Serenade
    - You Gotta Take A Little Love
    - Total Response (Won't you open up your senses etc...)

    There's also a late 70s or 80s lp with a hideous cover but that has a killer previously unreleased vocal version of Senor Blues that was recorded in the 60s.


    Good list - Song For My Father, Total Response and the Village Gate LPs are my top tips.
  • pickwick33pickwick33 8,946 Posts
    As long as there's no vocals, I'd say you were doing alright...
  • markus71markus71 937 Posts
    The Jody Grind is not to be sniffed at either + let's not forget the overlooked In pursuit of the 27th man.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    Did he have a period where he played sax more than piano? Did he play sax?
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,955 Posts
    Pretty much what Horse posted. Also, I love this to bits:



    Horace plays on a few of the cuts too IIRC.
  • SpacechoSpacecho 176 Posts
    I like his 'cosmic' stuff w/Andy Bey, it's a bit kitsch but I dig the righteousness!
  • bigchalzbigchalz 220 Posts
    "let's not forget the overlooked In pursuit of the 27th man."
    exactly,the 27th man album shreds. michael brecker plays such a mean solo on gregory is here. also a nice version of weldon's liberated brother and moacir's kathy. such a good album.
    about cape verdean blues, i didn't realize until recently that Silver is half Cape Verdean(his dad was from there).



    here's a nice version of liberated brother with a bob berg and tom harrell.


    just found another vid from this same tour:



    another great album of his is Spirtualizing the Senses on silveto. this album is from 82 or 83 but don't let that scare you, it most certainly shreds.


    did anyone here ever get to see him play?
  • fishmongerfunkfishmongerfunk 4,154 Posts
    Spacecho said:
    I like his 'cosmic' stuff w/Andy Bey, it's a bit kitsch but I dig the righteousness!

    what is the name of the crumby sounding electric piano he plays on these records?

  • m_dejeanm_dejean Quadratisch. Praktisch. Gut. 2,946 Posts
    crabmongerfunk said:
    what is the name of the crumby sounding electric piano he plays on these records?

    RMI Electra Piano



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMI_Electra_Piano
  • the_dLthe_dL 1,531 Posts
    Jspr said:
    So consistent. Like almost all his output.

    for me i liked his output well into the late 70's and even the early 80's
  • fountain16fountain16 93 Posts
    Even though its not rare or high dollar, 'Total Response' has been a white whale of mine for years.Funkyou! didn't even have a copy when i was at his warehouse a few months ago, which had me further thinking that the record gods were playing with me lol.
    finally got one last week at record exchange here in St.Louis.
  • LoopDreamsLoopDreams 1,195 Posts
    This is a good one from the seventies:

  • ageage 1,131 Posts
    I think (IMO) one of his best recordings on Blue Note and underrated too! His version oy "My One and Only Love" is killer, No Smoking is a stomper, The Back Beat is just a stellar workout, and just the whole lp is a great listen from start to finish

    Horace Silver??? The Stylings Of Silver

    Just in case you are not knowing, here it is digitized for you

    http://www.divshare.com/download/14967519-7ef

    You're welcome btw
  • PATXPATX 2,820 Posts
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