The great Horace Silver. That's it. That's the intro. To the music. The Music The Tune: "Strollin'" Recorded: 8-9 July, 1960 at Englewood Cliffs, NJ Personnel: Junior Cook - Tenor SaxBlue Mitchell - TrumpetHorace Silver - PianoEugene Taylor - BassRoy Brooks - Drums By a happy coincidence, the day I finally got around to writing [...]
This is a special post for a couple of reasons. First, it's Horace Silver. Any Horace Silver album is special. The other reason? Keep on reading. To the music! The Music The Tune: "Gregory Is Here"Recorded: 10 November, 1972 at Englewood Cliffs, NJPersonnel: Randy Brecker- Trumpet & FluglehornMichael Brecker- Tenor SaxHorace Silver- PianoBob Cranshaw- Electric [...]
Look out world. After having written a post about an original Blue Note album, here comes my first post about an original Prestige album. Mama I made it. The Music The Tune: "Airegin" Recorded: 29 June, 1954 in Hackensack, NJ Personnel: Miles Davis- Trumpet Sonny Rollins- Tenor Sax Horace Silver- Piano Percy Heath- Bass Kenny [...]
Regular readers of my blog know that while I'm a jazz record collector as well as a jazz fan in general, I'm a huge Paul Desmond/Dave Brubeck fan. HUGE. This passion for their music has resulted in me scouring the internet for rare music, photos, information, anything pertaining to Paul Desmond and Dave Brubeck. I've [...]
The Music Tune: Too Much Sake Recorded: 14 July, 1962 in New Jersey Personnel: Blue Mitchell- Trumpet Junior Cook- Tenor Sax Horace Silver- Piano Gene Taylor- Bass John Harris Jr.- Drums Look out world- here's my first post featuring a Blue Note album! An original (ish) at that? That's right, and it was within my [...]
