Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers

Artist: Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers
Label: Blue Note Records
Category: Music

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Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 724386447821
EAN: 0724386447821
ASIN: B0007M23AQ

Release Date: 2005-03-01

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Tracks:

Room 608
Creepin' In
Stop Time
To Whom It May Concern
Hippy
The Preacher
Hankerin'
Doodlin'

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Customer Reviews:

The Message is loud and clear!.......2006-12-19

This has to be one of my favorite jazz albums of all time. This cup of classic jazz by Horace and the Messengers is filled to the brim with funk, humor, and attitude. If you like Blue Note recordings, or jazz in general, this is a cd you MUST have. You won't regret it!

Silver is Gold!!!.......2006-02-14

This CD got me hooked on Horace Silver and started my journey on exploring all of the great Blue Note artists of the 50's and 60's.

The Preacher and Doodlin' are classic Horace Silver compositions.

Hardbop Masterpiece.......2006-02-13

This is the first Jazz Messengers album which soon would go under the tutelage of Art Blakey. From there (read the book Hardbop Academy) the group would go through many line up changes and launch the careers of musicians from inspired (Wayne Shorter) to derivative (Wynton Marsalis) and many in between. This has to be my favorite Jazz Messengers album because most of the pieces on it would become jazz standards. Adding elements of soul and later funk to bebop to create the sub-genre known as hardbop does not sound like much today but it was an act to take away the idea of jazz as music for purely intellectuals and return it to its roots but still keeping it advancing in a new direction. Ever jazz musician with any degree of awareness would name check this album. But forgot the hyperbole. If you are a fan of classic hardbop, sooner or later you will run into this album and when you do, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy.

Best Silver, Best Blakey.......2005-06-08

The Preacher and Creepin In are insanely snappy, making this my favorite Silver recording. Early in the LP era here, this album always had good sound, now made even better with this reissue. The tunes are very soulful; this is not reminiscent of the pedal-to-the-metal Blakey/Silver albums with Clifford Brown @ Birdland. HS and the JM is much more of a hard-bop/bluesy album, the likes of which Silver seemingly effortlessly produced over the following 15 years after this was released.

One Hell of a debut for one of the greatest jazz groups of.........2005-06-08

all time.

This was recorded late in 1954 and finished in early 1955 and is the first recording to feature what would later be called Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers after pianist Silver left later in 1955. The song Doodlin' was my introduction to this great band when I heard it on the Ken Burns Jazz set (which is a great introduction to jazz) and it kicked many buttocks. Hank Mobley is one of the most underrated saxophonists ever and Kenny Dorham is also underrated. Once Dorham showed up Miles Davis at a club so that's how great Dorham played the trumpet, and Art Blakey is superhuman as always. Silver is one of the best pianists I've ever heard and is right up there with Monk.

This is one of the best reissues I've ever seen since I thought this album was long gone. Now if only Columbia/Legacy could rerelease the Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra recordings.

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