Horace Silver
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the acquisition of more Horace Silver sides is always a cause for celebration for me...the past weekend a got two more and it is all I listen to at home...damn I love this guy's writing and playing...my favorite jazz pianist/composer. You can not be in a bad mood when you listen to him. Plaese for someone to send the Horace Silver Trio 10" it Memphis plaese. Thank you.
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yeah, I thought about that, but I didnt know the Messengers were like that from the get go, but you're probably right.
i don't know why Silver split from Blakey, but my guess would be they each wanted their own leadership. if i remember correctly the 1st Messengers lps were just the collective name of the band, not "Art Blakey and the jazz Messengers."
"The African Queen" and "Pretty Eyes" are unstopable.
Blakey was using the name "Jazz Messengers" in the late forties for a big band he led. I think the Jazz Messengers moniker was his from the get go. Silver was a hard bop pioneer and one of the first to branch out of the blues and gospel and introduce some of the first soul and funk elements in his compositions. Dude was very bad ass!
I hear you on that. I don't mind the vocals on senor blues though.
Not even with Andy & Salome Bey?
To be honest, those psychobabble lyrics that used to appear in the gatefolds of his albums scared me away!!!
Seriously, though, what I've actually heard here & there, as far as Horace Silver vocals, hasn't really impressed me. If the singers don't sink it, then the preachy "self-help" lyrics will. I'd sooner stick with "Filthy McNasty" and "Song For My Father."
One of my favorites by Horace.
I celebrate his entire catalog. Period.