The quintet renditions totally kicked ass!Īnd yeah, that's what I mean - those are some badass tunes on those albums.
He was leading a quintet, and he played several pieces from the new album. I saw Horace live around the time that the last in the Siver And series came out (Silver And Strings - Music of the Spheres). Talk about something that sounds fairly straightforward until you really listen to it, this is it! Edited Septemby JSngry Skip the performance and check out the tune. Since I already have all the albums, I didn't follow the trail.Īnd Paul - when you get a sec, go back to Voices (with Monica Mancini apparently the female lead, which explains any number of things.) & check out "I Will Always Love You". For those people, it's my understanding that the whole series has been blogged somewhere. People who are interested in Horace Silver - Jazz Composer and not just Horace Silver - Purveyor Of Funky Hard Bop (and what is that, about enough people to buy about 2/3 of the promos that would get released?) need to hear these albums.
There's also a lot of that dreaded 70s "recording sound" too, so people who hear "style" over "substance" might well let that be all they need to hear before rendering a negative verdict.īut I tell you this, and will stand by it no matter what - there is plenty of great writing on those albums. Not so hot on Harrell, Berg, or Larry Schnieder, who's on at least one (hold your calls, please, I know they're all great players, just personal preferences at work, nothing more), but they don't mess anyth8ng up either, far from it. I'm with Paul about the tunes - Horace was still growing as a writer and there are some really meaty gems there, some true "lost gems".
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