- jazz, hard bop
- 47 min
- 7 tracks
- Epic
Silver's Blue is a studio album by American jazz pianist Horace Silver recorded for the Epic label in 1956 featuring performances by Silver with Joe Gordon, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins, and Kenny Clarke and another session with Donald Byrd and Art Taylor replacing Gordon and Clarke. Silver, Mobley, Watkins, and Byrd all had recently left The Jazz Messengers. These were Silver's first sessions as a leader after leaving the Messengers.
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Classical in form, grave, spare and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- intimateepic
- character-ledplot-driven
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Tracks
- A1Silver’s Blue7:44
- A2To Beat or Not to Beat4:03
- A3How Long Has This Been Going On?4:17
- A4I’ll Know7:24
- B1Shouting Out6:33
- B2Hank’s Tune5:26
- B3The Night Has a Thousand Eyes11:28
7 tracks, 47 minutes.
About the album
- Label
- Epic
- Released
- 1956
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- US
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