Music CD - Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers Tracks: Room 608, Creepin' In, Stop Time, To Whom It May Concern, Hippy, The Preacher, Hankerin', Doodlin'

Music CD: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Artist: Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers

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Tracks:
1. Room 608 2. Creepin' In 3. Stop Time 4. To Whom It May Concern 5. Hippy 6. The Preacher 7. Hankerin' 8. Doodlin'

Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0724386447821
Format: Original recording remastered
Label: Blue Note Records
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Blue Note Records
Release Date: 2005-03-01
Studio: Blue Note Records

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Summary: Horace Silver and the Jazz Mesengers.
Comment: Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
This is the fourth time in 50 years that I have bought this album not counting the countless times I have given it as a gift. It is the definative album of what 50's funk was. You just had to say "Horace Silver" and you defined a whole movement from the 50's. It is really the real beginning of the jazz messengers and a recording that was important in defining the new hard bop movement of the era. Should be a part of every jazz lover's library.

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Summary: The Message is loud and clear!
Comment: This bubbling brew of jazz by Horace and the Messengers is filled to the brim with funk, humor, and attitude. If you like Blue Note, or jazz in general, this is a cd you MUST have. It is certainly one of the greatest jazz recordings of all time with an all star lineup, including Hank Mobley and Art Blakey.

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Summary: Silver is Gold!!!
Comment: 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.

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Summary: Hardbop Masterpiece
Comment: 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.

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Summary: Best Silver, Best Blakey
Comment: 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.

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This is the seminal album that gave birth to the Blue Note Sound, to Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers and to the Horace Silver Quintet. Shifting be-bop into an earthier, more blues-gospel orbit connected with audiences and forged the direction that hard bop would take for years to come. Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Silver, Doug Watkins and Blakey deliver Horace's compositions with panache and solo with heart-felt invention. A classic.

KENNY DORHAM, trumpet; HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax; HORACE SILVER, piano; DOUG WATKINS, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums

Recorded on November 13, 1954 (#1, 2, 3, 8) and February 6, 1955 (all others) at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

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