Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu
Album by Horace Silver
Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu | ||||
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Compilation album by Horace Silver | ||||
Released | October 1956 | |||
Recorded | October 9 and 20, 1952 and November 23, 1953 | |||
Studio | WOR Studios, NYC | |||
Genre | Jazz, hard bop | |||
Length | 40:26 | |||
Label | Blue Note BLP 1520 | |||
Producer | Alfred Lion | |||
Horace Silver chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings | [1] |
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | [2] |
Introducing the Horace Silver Trio | |
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Studio album by Horace Silver | |
Released | 1952 |
Recorded | October 9 and 20, 1952 |
Studio | WOR Studios, NYC |
Label | Blue Note BLP 5018 |
Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 | |
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Compilation album by Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey | |
Released | 1953 |
Recorded | November 23, 1953 |
Studio | WOR Studios, NYC |
Label | Blue Note BLP 5034 |
Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu is an album by the Horace Silver Trio featuring drummer Art Blakey and conga player Sabu, recorded on October 9 & 20, 1952 and November 23, 1953 respectively and released on Blue Note in 1956.[3]
Background
The sessions were previously issued on two 10"s, Introducing the Horace Silver Trio (1952) and Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 (1953), respectively.[4] While the original 12" LP omitted four tracks from these earlier 10" LPs, the CD reissue includes all 16 tracks from the original sessions.[5][6]
Track listing
Original release
All tracks are written by Horace Silver except where noted
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Safari" | October 9, 1952 | 2:47 | ||
2. | "Ecaroh" | October 20, 1952 | 3:10 | ||
3. | "Prelude to a Kiss" | Irving Gordon, Irving Mills | Duke Ellington | October 20, 1952 | 2:47 |
4. | "Message from Kenya" | Art Blakey | November 23, 1953 | 2:47 | |
5. | "Horoscope" | October 9, 1952 | 3:47 | ||
6. | "Yeah" | October 20, 1952 | 2:45 |
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "How About You?" | Ralph Freed | Burton Lane | November 23, 1953 | 3:40 |
2. | "I Remember You" | Johnny Mercer | Victor Schertzinger | November 23, 1953 | 3:52 |
3. | "Opus de Funk" | November 23, 1953 | 3:26 | ||
4. | "Nothing but the Soul" | Art Blakey | November 23, 1953 | 4:07 | |
5. | "Silverware" | November 23, 1953 | 2:34 | ||
6. | "Day In, Day Out" | Johnny Mercer | Rube Bloom | November 23, 1953 | 3:00 |
CD reissue
All tracks are written by Horace Silver except where noted
No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Horace-Scope" | October 9, 1952 | 3:47 | ||
2. | "Safari" | October 9, 1952 | 2:47 | ||
3. | "Thou Swell" | Lorenz Hart | Richard Rodgers | October 9, 1952 | 2:52 |
4. | "Quicksilver" | October 20, 1952 | 3:00 | ||
5. | "Ecaroh" | October 20, 1952 | 3:10 | ||
6. | "Yeah" | October 20, 1952 | 2:45 | ||
7. | "Knowledge Box" | October 20, 1952 | 2:46 | ||
8. | "Prelude to a Kiss" | Irving Gordon, Irving Mills | Duke Ellington | October 20, 1952 | 2:47 |
9. | "I Remember You" | Johnny Mercer | Victor Schertzinger | November 23, 1953 | 3:52 |
10. | "Opus de Funk" | November 23, 1953 | 3:26 | ||
11. | "Day In, Day Out" | Johnny Mercer | Rube Bloom | November 23, 1953 | 3:00 |
12. | "Silverware" | November 23, 1953 | 2:34 | ||
13. | "How About You?" | Ralph Freed | Burton Lane | November 23, 1953 | 3:40 |
14. | "Buhaina" | November 23, 1953 | 3:04 | ||
15. | "Message from Kenya" | Art Blakey | November 23, 1953 | 4:30 | |
16. | "Nothing but the Soul" | Art Blakey | November 23, 1953 | 4:07 | |
Total length: | 50:08 |
Introducing the Horace Silver Trio – BLP 5018
No. | Title | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Safari" | October 9, 1952 | |
2. | "Ecaroh" | October 20, 1952 | |
3. | "Prelude to a Kiss" | October 20, 1952 | |
4. | "Thou Swell" | October 9, 1952 |
No. | Title | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Quicksilver" | October 20, 1952 | |
2. | "Horoscope" | October 9, 1952 | |
3. | "Yeah" | October 20, 1952 | |
4. | "Knowledge Box" | October 20, 1952 |
Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 – BLP 5034
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "How About You" |
| November 23, 1953 | |
2. | "I Remember You" |
| November 23, 1953 | |
3. | "Silverware" | Silver | November 23, 1953 | |
4. | "Message from Kenya" | Blakey | November 23, 1953 |
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Date recorded | Length |
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1. | "Opus de Funk" | Silver | November 23, 1953 | |
2. | "Nothing but the Soul" | Blakey | November 23, 1953 | |
3. | "Buhaina" | Silver | November 23, 1953 | |
4. | "Day In, Day Out" |
| November 23, 1953 |
Personnel
Horace Silver Trio
October 9, 1952
- Horace Silver – piano
- Gene Ramey – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
October 20, 1952
- Horace Silver – piano
- Curley Russell – bass
- Art Blakey – drums
November 23, 1953
- Horace Silver – piano (except "Message from Kenya", "Nothing but the Soul")
- Percy Heath – bass (except "Message from Kenya", "Nothing but the Soul")
- Art Blakey – drums
- Sabu – conga ("Message from Kenya")
Technical personnel
- Alfred Lion – production
- Reid Miles, John Hermansader (BLP 5018), Jerome Kuhl (BLP 5034) – design
- Francis Wolff – photography
- Rudy Van Gelder – remastering
- Leonard Feather – liner notes
References
- ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1298. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
- ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
- ^ Yanow, Scott. "Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 1: Spotlight on Drums". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ "Horace Silver Discography Project". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ "Horace Silver Trio". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- ^ "Horace Silver Trio". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
- v
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Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
Note
albums
- New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio) (1952)/Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu (1952–53)
- Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55)
- 6 Pieces of Silver (1956–58)
- The Stylings of Silver (1957)
- Further Explorations (1958)
- Live at Newport '58 (1958)
- Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet (1959)
- Blowin' the Blues Away (1959)
- Horace-Scope (1960)
- Doin' the Thing (1961)
- The Tokyo Blues (1962)
- Silver's Serenade (1963)
- Song for My Father (1963–64)
- The Cape Verdean Blues (1965)
- The Jody Grind (1966)
- Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968)
- You Gotta Take a Little Love (1969)
- That Healin' Feelin', The United States of Mind, Phase 1 (1970)
- Total Response, The United States of Mind,
Phase 2 (1970–71) - All, The United States of Mind, Phase 3 (1972)
- The United States of Mind (compilation of the 3 'Phase' albums, 1970–72)
- In Pursuit of the 27th Man (1972)
- Silver 'n Brass (1975)
- Silver 'n Wood (1975–76)
- Silver 'n Voices (1976)
- Silver 'n Percussion (1977)
- Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres (1978–79)
released
on
other
labels
- Silver's Blue (1956)
- Live 1964 (1964)
- Guides to Growing Up (1981)
- Spiritualizing the Senses (1983)
- There's No Need to Struggle (1983)
- The Continuity of Spirit (1985)
- Music to Ease Your Disease (1988)
- Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991)
- It's Got to Be Funky (1993)
- Pencil Packin' Papa (1994)
- The Hardbop Grandpop (1996)
- A Prescription for the Blues (1997)
- Jazz Has a Sense of Humor (1998)
Blakey/The
Jazz
Messengers
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1954)
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (1954)
- A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (1954)
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955)
- At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1955)
- The Jazz Messengers (1956)
- The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956)
- Originally (1956)
others
- Introducing Nat Adderley (1955)
- Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994)
- Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955)
- Whims of Chambers (Paul Chambers, 1956)
- Bohemia After Dark (Kenny Clarke, 1955)
- Al Cohn's Tones (Al Cohn, 1950)
- Miles Davis, Volume 3 (1954)
- Miles Davis Quartet/Blue Haze/Miles Davis Quintet/
Miles Davis All-Star Sextet/Walkin' (1953/54) - Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins/Bags' Groove (1954)
- Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (Lou Donaldson, 1952)
- Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955)
- The Art Farmer Septet (1953–54)
- When Farmer Met Gryce (Art Farmer/Gigi Gryce, 1955)
- The Complete Roost Recordings (Stan Getz, 1950–51)
- Nica's Tempo (Gigi Gryce, 1955)
- Disorder at the Border (Coleman Hawkins, 1952)
- Milt Jackson Quartet (1955)
- Plenty, Plenty Soul (Milt Jackson, 1957)
- The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (J.J. Johnson, 1955)
- Blowing in from Chicago (Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore, 1957)
- Hank Mobley Quartet (1955)
- Hank Mobley Sextet (1956)
- Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957)
- Hank Mobley Quintet (1957)
- J. R. Monterose (1956)
- Lee Morgan Indeed! (1956)
- Lee Morgan Sextet (1956)
- Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (1957)
- Clark Terry (1955)
singles
- "Opus de Funk" (1953)
- "The Preacher"/"Doodlin'" (1955/54)
- "Señor Blues" (1956)
- "Sister Sadie" (1959)
- "Nica's Dream" (1960)
- "Song for My Father" (1964)