The Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues flac album

Written-By – Horace Silver. Written-By – Horace Silver. From the back cover: This album is dedicated to all of our many fans in Japan and to all of the Japanese people who were so very kind to us while we were making our concert tour there. It is our wish to return again some day soon. While in Japan, I noticed that the Japanese people were very fond of Latin music, which I also am very fond of.

Following a series of concert dates in Tokyo late in 1961 with his quintet, Horace Silver returned to the . with his head full of the Japanese melodies he had heard during his visit, and using those as a springboard, he wrote four new pieces, which he then recorded at sessions held on July 13 and 14, 1962, along with a version. of Ronnell Bright's little known ballad "Cherry Blossom. One would naturally assume the resulting LP would have a Japanese feel, but that really isn't the case. The bottom line is that The Tokyo Blues emerges as a fairly typical Silver set from the era and not as a grandiose fusion experiment welding hard bop to Japanese melodies.

Their Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers album contained Silver's first hit, "The Preacher". After leaving Blakey in 1956, Silver formed his own quintet, with what became the standard small group line-up of tenor saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums. Their public performances and frequent recordings for Blue Note Records increased Silver's popularity, even through changes of personnel. Early in his career, Silver composed contrafacts and blues-based melodies (including "Doodlin'" and "Opus de Funk"). The latter was "a typical Silver creation: advanced in its harmonic structure and general approach but with a catchy tune and finger-snapping beat. His innovative incorporation of gospel and blues sounds into jazz compositions took place while. Horace Silver Quintet – Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet". Retrieved December 19, 2015.

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Filthy McNasty (Live) (20 Bit Mastering). Blue Minor (Rudy Van Gelder 24Bit Mastering). Horace Silver (September 2, 1928 - June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He is known for his distinctive humorous and funky playing style, and for his pioneering contributions to hard bop. Silver was influenced by a wide range of musical styles, notably gospel music, African music, and Latin American music.

The Tokyo Blues is a hard bop music album recording by HORACE SILVER released in 1962 on CD, LP/Vinyl and/or cassette. 1962 The Horace Silver Quintet LP ‎ The Tokyo Blues - Blue Note ‎- BLP 4110.

HORACE SILVER, The Tokyo blues JAPAN Mini LP BLUE NOTE CD w/OBI TOCJ-9068 Condition: Like New. Time left: 1d 4h 57m 42s. Ships to: Worldwide. Horace Silver Quintet album bestography. Higher ranked (23,084th) This album (28,668th) Lower ranked (33,331st) Finger Poppin'The Tokyo BluesHorace-Scope. Listen to The Tokyo Blues on YouTube. The Tokyo Blues track list.