Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers

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

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 077774614023
EAN: 0077774614023
ASIN: B000005H46

Release Date: 1990-10-25

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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:

Disappointing.......2006-03-13

I've been playing jazz piano professionally for over 20 years and Horace Silver is among my favorites. I hadn't heard this album so when Horace wrote about this group in the lastest issue of Jazz Times, I definitely wanted to hear this group. As he writes, the individual musicans, Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley (as well as Siver, Blakey and Watkins) are all surperb, giving clear, sophisticated solos. However, the structure (i.e. the tunes) are flat and uninteresting, and except for "The Preacher" hardly worth recording. Compared to the great "Song for My Father" and "Blowin' the Blues Away" albums, sorry, but this one's a flop!

Horace's most famous classic (5 stars).......2005-06-01

This man deserves it. He was the man behind The Jazz Messenger whom him and the drummer Art Blakey formed back together. This sure is a good album and a must-have for all of those die-hard jazz lovers and music lovers must put down rap for a minute and hear this. This one made a discovery in the world of jazz. If u listen to it, you'll hear a difference. I hope ya'll enjoy this.

This is a must 2 add along w/ my collection of the Dizzy's, Miles's, Bird's, Coltranes', Quincy Jones's, etc. I have around.

A delightful recording.......2002-12-10

Horace Silver and Art Blakey, that great drummer, probably are the real pivots of this excellent band, but the horns also pack a real punch. The music of Silver, and indeed more generally that of the various groups performing as "The Jazz Messengers", was always very "jazzy": strongly rooted in the blues and hard, driving swing. Here "The Preacher" reminds one of negro spirituals, and it is a wonderfully zestful tune and group-performance. The tempo is usually not as frenzied, on a recording like this, as that of various other performers in similar "East Coast" groups of the time, but the music is utterly powerful. The articulation of musical ideas is wonderfully clear, aesthetic, inventive, and ordered - without the extravagant cascades and mere loudness of sound that some other groups produced. Many other jazz pianists, or drummers for that matter, tend towards little more than accompaniment, but Silver and Blakey have plenty of their own to say. All in all, this record is a "gas": a constantly stimulating companion over the years, uplifting and joyful. Very satisfying to own and play regularly. - Joost Daalder

Essential.......2001-01-26

In my collection of jazz records, this one is easily in the top five. Silver's and Blakey's solos are some of the best in jazz history, but there is really nothing worng about this album. It moves and grooves, and swings hard. If you've never really heard of Horace Silver, I would definitely buy this album.

A STRONG 5.......2000-05-06

Horace Silver&The Jazz Messengers Sound Great All the way Through here.THE GREAT DRUMMER Art Blakey Fronted The Messengers.The Music here Never Misses The Beat.Strong Arrangements&Playing.A Must Have.

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