Horace Silver, Hank Mobley..

For Mobley, I second No Room for Squares and especially Soul Station.

If you like Horace Silver and Hank Mobley you may also enjoy Cannonball Adderley, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell, Lou Donaldson, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Jimmy Smith, Stanley Turrentine.... I'd suggest looking for a good Blue Note comp.!

This is a FANTASTIC double-disc Blue Note comp. I listened that thing to death.

Oh yeah, right now I'm listening to The Turnaround- if you've got it, listen to it too!

silver's song for my father is great for many reasons, and the title track was borrowed by steely dan for 'rikki don't lose that number'

Which became song for frasier's father to manhandle in say anything.

i can't really listen to the title track because it's one of those high school jazz 101 tunes (see also watermelon man, work song, chameleon, etc.). blowin' the blues away is a favorite, though.

(see also Green Dolphin Street?)

(sometimes watermelon man is substituted with canteloupe island)

those too

i can't really listen to the title track because it's one of those high school jazz 101 tunes (see also watermelon man, work song, chameleon, etc.). blowin' the blues away is a favorite, though.

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yes to all this

hay dudes do u know c jam blues lol

deej, you should come down to the gr33n m1ll this weekend.

??? when?why?

my brass band is playing there on friday and saturday

Maybe he wants to get your *impressions* or show you some *milestones*- something in that mode.
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In any case, you two better stay out of my town, lest you ready for some *scrapple from the apple*

ha, there is a jam session there on fridays, starts about 1 am. the house drummer is great, but it can get pretty terrible as far as jam sessions go.

dude i havent picked up my trumpet in three years

haha but of course ill come see yall

That didn't stop Art Pepper from meeting with The Rhythm Section, and look how well that turned out.
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Although I think he might have exaggerated a little bit.

Ha, heard "Worksong" today and thought about this thread, thought it might have been missing from Jazz 101 and needing to be added, but it's practically at the top of the list.

just got this over at amazon mp3 - http://www.amazon.com/Monday-Night-At-Birdland/dp/B004ADWELG/ref=sr_1_3?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&qid=1313707708&sr=1-3
pretty great, not sure why it isn't more well known? i guess it isn't on blue note, so there ya go. anyway, good deal! worth it!

second-tier rhythm section?

yeah, maybe. Specs Wright on drums. never heard of him. still, pretty sweet recording/performance. kinda the sound of morgan/mobley coasting, but what a sound.

The "Jazz Messenger" volumes are something i return to time and time again. So too, "Six Pieces of Silver" and "Songs For My Father", however Mobley is absent from the latter.

yeah, was just listening to "six pieces" -- one of my fave 50s hard bop things.

I'm listening at present to a weirdass Blue Note Horace Silver reissue from a couple years ago. It's three early 70s pop/fusion/funk things (That Healin' Feelin', Total Response, All) collected as "United States of Mind." Pretty good, in a Roy Ayers/Gil Scott Heron vein. Not what you think of when you think of Blue Note and Horace Silver.
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Just picked up a copy of Total Fusion. Really enjoying the sound. Reminds me of Bartz's Harlem Bush Music (beyond the obvious Bey connection). Is there anything else in a similar vein I should be checking for?

Actually, I picked up Silver's Blue (part of the Portrait Masters re-issue series) at the Goodwill the other day. I'm super happy with it.

RIP Horace Silver:

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/70-2013/12947-horace-silver-dies-aged-85

I was putting together editorial content for Blue Note's website for a while; almost exactly a year ago, I got Nate Patrin to write up Horace Silver's United States of Mind trilogy. Here's the piece.

Rest in Peace, Horace.

ugh, man, we're losing too many of these jazz greats in the past couple weeks. I guess all of 'em outlived a lot of their peers, but still. RIP. Amazing pianist.

it's strange, I was thinking "it seems like an awful lot of jazz greats have died this year" and then I thought "nah that's probably every year." But I googled 2012 and there really are a lot more this year.

https://twitter.com/blogsupreme/status/412984478781304832

???

Yeah, this too:

https://twitter.com/Sami_Yenigun/status/412986402180063232

I just spoke to Horace Silver's son, who says his father is "eating breakfast and drinking coffee right now"

Ah, same thing. I shoulda clicked through!

haha wtf!

http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/news-mainmenu-139/70-2013/12948-an-apology-to-horace-silver

Glad to hear that the rumors of his passing have been greatly exaggerated.

I'd add "The Cape Verdean Blues" as another solid Silver pick.

yeah i love that one. is he basically retired these days? "latest news" on his website is from 2006.

I've heard that he's been very ill for a long time.

Apologies for leading this off with the Jazzwise link announcing his death, which has now been removed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dSi2qrucYk

The United States of Mind is so, so good.

When Horace met Cecil...

http://www.pescarajazz.com/upload_area/photos/0/1996_Cecil_Taylor_Horace_Silver.jpg

that is a beautiful pic tarfumes but let's not tempt fate w/ ct eh

Been listening to The Jody Grind a lot lately.

RIP

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/06/18/323346744/jazz-pianist-composer-horace-silver-dies-at-85

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUd3gWEaLq0

RIP

Been listening to lots of Horace w/ Blakey and the Messengers lately, and shit, his left hand...you can really hear where Cecil Taylor got a lot of his ideas.

ugh RIP. crazy how deep his career goes. i mean, i was just listening to those early art blakey/clifford brown birdland joints with him. 1952!

Yeah, "Quicksilver"!

I put together a 3 1/2 hour Spotify playlist of his Blue Note stuff (as leader and sideman).

Yeah, his left hand. That thundering comping.

funky w/ a Latin tinge.

RIP

NY Times obit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html?hpw&rref=obituaries

Amazing how consistent those '60s Blue Note albums are. So far haven't gone wrong with any of the ones I've picked up.

yeah, i don't think i've heard all of them, but i definitely haven't come across a bad 50s or 60s record by him. funny, he's probably as good/influential as anyone you'd care to name from that period, but he doesn't get the "genius" tag. must be because he wasn't an egomaniac or remotely "crazy."

Well, I don't think I'd agree that he was as good or influential as anyone from that era, but he definitely had a knack for making really good records, developing a recognizable style and staying with it, and writing great melodies. I guess I don't find him as "interesting" as some of the heavyweights of the era? I kind of feel gross even dissecting this when he just died.

Aw, man, RIP

This is a tune I always loved a lot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPoqMkKLI9g

My way of appreciating music is very far from considerations of influence, so I'm probably not best qualified to speak to that question, but in terms of sheer listening pleasure, I think Silver holds his own with other mid-60s heavyweights.

yeah i guess that's what i meant -- just that silver was never positioned as THE DUDE WHO IS MOVING JAZZ FORWARD, like miles, monk, coltrane, etc. just he made extremely solid music.

I'm listening to the Horace Silver Trio record with Art Blakey right now, and it's both a fantastic record and one where I think he sounds a LOT like Bud Powell.

true, but there are a zillion folks like that. he had a knack, like brubeck and guaraldi, for writing jazz that was extremely tuneful and accessible w/o (at least to a point) really threatening his credibility as a jazzman's jazzman. i mean, my mom is very very very far from a jazzhead but she has a bunch of horace silver records.

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also this is some good shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Nbw2h3KXk

I think his jazz cred is still way, way above Brubeck or Guaraldi fwiw. Brubeck was a non-swingin' motherfucker who didn't even write his most famous tune.

Like no jazz head will knock Horace Silver afaik.

yeah. i guess my only real point is that i like horace silver!
good live thing here: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1864

I like Horace Silver too!

always loved him backing miles davis here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My64gudxXOk

I first discovered Horace Silver while digging into the early catalog of Art Blakey; odd how you can like something, start digging, and find something that you like so much more deeply. That "Spotlight on Drums" album posted above is truly one of the best proper jazz records ever released.

Great interview here: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/a-fireside-chat-with-horace-silver-horace-silver-by-aaj-staff.php

FJ: Impressively, even Cecil Taylor suggests your influence.

HS: I haven't seen Cecil in a long time, but one thing is for sure, if I am playing somewhere and Cecil is anywhere near it, he always shows up and we hang out. I'm very pleased that he likes my stuff.

http://www.pescarajazz.com/upload_area/photos/0/1996_Cecil_Taylor_Horace_Silver.jpg

don't know if this has come up yet but of course

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zIXvAp2zw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm49kE0

Did you figure that out all by yourself?