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Blowin' the Blues Away: The Horace Silver Quintet & Trio.
1969148768New York: Blue Note 1969. Amongst the cream of the hard bop crop signed by Silver Signed cleanly by Horace Silver in full in blue ballpoint on the back cover; this album being a very desirable location for the great pianist's signature as Cook & Morton describe it as "more than any other to exemplify al his virtues as pianist composer and leader" awarding it the full four stars and the accolade of "core collection". This is the 1969 pressing of the original 1959 recording featuring Blue Mitchell trumpet Junior Cook tenor Eugene Taylor bass and Louis Hayes drums. Cook and Morton are unstinting in their praise: "The title-track goes off like a typhoon. The ten-bar ballad 'Peace' is one of Silver's most haunting and most-covered themes. 'Sister Sadie' is a soul-jazz classic which other bandleaders were quick to cover. 'The Baghdad Blues' finds him guying various kinds of jazz exoticism. And he ends the record with another version of one of his most durable pieces 'Melancholy Mood'. It's a typical Blue Note a characteristic Silver session but every part of it is powerful enough to transcend what would become clichés of the idiom; and the band all play superbly". 12-inch vinyl LP Blue Note BLP-4017 / 84017 new plain white inner sleeve original inner also preserved original album cover. Very light shelfwear otherwise very good; disc in excellent condition. Richard Cook & Brian Morton The Penguin Guide to Jazz recordings ninth edition 2008; Discogs website. unknown
Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni750,00 £GB≈ 856,35 €
