- 76 min
- 12 tracks
- Columbia
It's Got to Be Funky is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his first release on the Columbia label since Silver's Blue (1956), featuring performances by Silver with Oscar Brashear, Ron Stout, Bob Summers, Bob McChesney, Maurice Spears, Suzette Moriarty, Eddie Harris, Branford Marsalis, Red Holloway, Bob Maize, and Carl Burnett, with vocals by Andy Bey.
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Spare, classical in form, grave and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- character-ledplot-driven
- warmbleak
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Tracks
- 1Funky Bunky7:31
- 2Dufus Rufus5:34
- 3The Lunceford Legacy7:03
- 4The Hillbilly Bebopper5:29
- 5The Walk a Round - Look Up and Down Song5:56
- 6It's Got to Be Funky6:46
- 7Basically Blue6:27
- 8Song for My Father8:34
- 9When You're in Love4:30
- 10Put Me in the Basement7:19
- 11Little Mama7:05
- 12Yo' Mama's Mambo3:37
12 tracks, 76 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Horace Silver
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1993
- Type
- Album
- Format
- CD
- Country
- XE
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