Music CD - Horace Silver: Blowin' the Blues Away

	Music CD: Blowin' the Blues Away Artist: Horace Silver List Price: $11.98 Our Price: $6.94 Your Save: $ 5.04 ( 42% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
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Tracks: 1. Blowin' The Blues Away 2. The St. Vitus Dance 3. Break City 4. Peace 5. Sister Sadie 6. The Baghdad Blues 7. Melancholy Mood 8. How Did It Happen
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0724349534223 Format: Original recording reissued Label: Blue Note Records Manufacturer: Blue Note Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Blue Note Records Release Date: 1999-03-09 Studio: Blue Note Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Hard Bop "Must Have" Album Comment: This is my favorite Horace Silver album, with The Hardbop Grandpop and several others close behind. This album has some great tunes that really move, such as the title tune, Break City and Sister Sadie. Sister Sadie alone is worth the price of the CD. The "slower" tunes are still inventive and lively, with room for the musicians to stretch out and shine. I also like Silver's better known "Song for my Father" album, but Blowin' The Blues Away is still his best. Give it a listen and if the few short samples don't do it justice, just buy it! Customer Rating: Summary: Not a fan Comment: Some day Horace will have to explain the point behind his incessant "shout chorus" style comping. It's got to be annoying as hell for the soloist. He's a great writer and arranger for horns--that's his strongest suit in my view. The style is unmistakable. Also without him the gospel aspect in jazz may not have introduced. What he needs for his soloing and comping is an editor though. He has always had oodles of ideas--but often he sounds like he's a kid trying to play every corny idea that comes to mind. Perhaps for some listeners that's part of his charm. Customer Rating: Summary: Decent. Comment: At least based on what I've heard of jazz-which is a lot-I don't consider this album to be an essential recording. It is good and at times, very good. Some of these tunes will be immediately recognized by some. The rest are good as well. This album is my first experience with Horace Silver as leader, so perhaps as time goes on and I get a better feel for his music thru other albums I will appreciate this one even more. Good, but not essential. Customer Rating: Summary: Guaranteed to cheer you up Comment: Song for My Father usually gets the nod as Horace Silver's best album in the post-Jazz Messenger days, but for my money there's simply no competition. Blowin' the Blues Away lines up song after song of punchy, upbeat hard bop, with melodies that will stay stuck in your head for days on end and grooves that run three feet into the floor. The feisty front line of Junior Cook and Blue Mitchell are at their most inspired, and every tune is chock-full of Horace's funky, soulful piano playing. Just give "Sister Sadie" a spin and you'll know what I mean. Customer Rating: Summary: Listen To This Album. Comment: Horace Silver, the King of "Hard Bop," and his quintet blow us away on this must-hear album. Each track is outstanding in its own right, but the gems are "St Vitus Dance," "Peace," and of course the Silver standard, "Sister Sadie." Wonderful stuff, folks. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Recorded in 1959, this is an early chronicle of one of the finest bands of the hard-bop genre, pianist Silver's classic quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes. The group already epitomized Silver's own virtues of precision and hard swing, with each soloist committed to direct and concise statements, at all times both emotionally and musically focused. There's effective contrast, too, between Mitchell's subtle turn of phrase and Cook's raw intensity, each filling in Silver's vision of a music that combined the complexity of bop and the immediacy of blues and gospel. This session contains the original recordings of two Silver standards, the serene "Peace" and the joyously funky "Sister Sadie," but the collective impact of the band is just as enduring. The group was so musically close-knit that when Silver disbanded five years later, the rest continued as the Blue Mitchell Quintet, with a young Chick Corea on piano. --Stuart Broomer