Horace Silver: The Trio Sides-1976 Blue Note Two Record Mono & Stereo 12" Record

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1974 Blue Note Reissue Series Two Record Release of Bandleader/Composer/Pianist Horace Silver Entitled the Trio Sides, Original Sessions Produced by Alfred Lion, Reissue Produced by Michael Cuscuna, Engineered by Rudy Van Gelder, Liner Notes by Ran Blake, Origianlly Recorded in New York City & Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey from October 9 of 1952 to March 25 in 1968 - "From the perspective of the 21st century, it is clear that few jazz musicians had a greater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The hard bop style that Silver pioneered in the '50s is now dominant, played not only by holdovers from an earlier generation, but also by fuzzy-cheeked musicians who had yet to be born when the music fell out of critical favor in the '60s and '70s. Silver's earliest musical influence was the Cape Verdean folk music he heard from his Portuguese-born father. Later, after he had begun playing piano and saxophone as a high schooler, Silver came under the spell of blues singers and boogie-woogie pianists, as well as boppers like Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. In 1950, Stan Getz played a concert in Hartford, Connecticut, with a pickup rhythm section that included Silver, drummer Walter Bolden, and bassist Joe Calloway. So impressed was Getz, he hired the whole trio. Silver had been saving his money to move to New York anyway; his hiring by Getz sealed the deal. Silver worked with Getz for a year, then began to freelance around the city with such big-time players as Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Oscar Pettiford. In 1952, he recorded with Lou Donaldson for the Blue Note label; this date led him to his first recordings as a leader. In 1953, he joined forces with Art Blakey to form a cooperative under their joint leadership. The band's first album, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, was a milestone in the development of the genre that came to be known as hard bop. Many of the tunes penned by Silver for that record -- "The Preacher," "Doodlin'," "Room 608" -- became jazz classics. By 1956, Silver had left the Messengers to record on his own. The series of Blue Note albums that followed established him for all time as one of jazz's major composer/pianists. LPs like Blowin' the Blues Away and Song for My Father (both recorded by an ensemble that included Silver's longtime sidemen Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook) featured Silver's harmonically sophisticated and formally distinctive compositions for small jazz ensemble. Silver's piano style -- terse, imaginative, and utterly funky -- became a model for subsequent mainstream pianists to emulate. Some of the most influential horn players of the '50s, '60s, and '70s first attained a measure of prominence with Silver -- musicians like Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Benny Golson, and the Brecker Brothers all played in Silver's band at a point early in their careers. Silver has even affected members of the avant-garde; Cecil Taylor confesses a Silver influence, and trumpeter Dave Douglas played briefly in a Silver combo. Silver recorded exclusively for Blue Note until that label's eclipse in the late '70s, whereupon he started his own label, Silveto. Silver's '80s work was poorly distributed. During that time he began writing lyrics to his compositions, and his work began to display a concern with music's metaphysical powers, as exemplified by album titles like Music to Ease Your Disease and Spiritualizing the Senses. In the '90s, Silver abandoned his label venture and began recording for Columbia. With his re-emergence on a major label, Silver once again received a measure of the attention his contributions deserve. Certainly, no one ever contributed a larger and more vital body of original compositions to the jazz canon. Silver died in New York on June 18, 2014 at the age of 85." - "This double LP includes all of Horace Silver's trio recordings for Blue Note including 14 selections from 1952-3 and nine other performances dating from 1956-68 when he normally recorded with his quintet. Silver, a highly individual composer and pianist whose funky style became very influential by the late '50s, is sometimes overlooked as a keyboard soloist so this hard-to-find set (which includes early versions of "Ecaroh" and "Opus de Funk") sheds new light on his versatile talents. Well worth searching for." - Stunning Personnel for the Various Trios Includes Legendary Composer Horace Silver on Piano, Curly Russell, the Talented Percy Heath, Teddy Kotick or the Brilliant Gene Taylor on Basses and the Great Art Blakey, Louis Hayes or the Amazing Billy Cobham on Drums! - Selections on Record One Are Safari(Mono), Thou Swell(Mono), Horoscope(Mono), Yeah(Mono), Ecaroh(Mono), Prelude to A Kiss(Mono), Quicksilver(Mono), Knowledge Box(Mono), How About You(Mono), I Remember You(Mono), Silverware(Mono), Opus De Funk(Mono), Buhainia(Mono), Day in Day Out(Mono) & Shirl(Mono) - Tracks for Record Two Consist of for Heaven's Sake(Mono), Melancholy Mood(First Version)(Mono), Sweet Stuff(Stereo), Melancholy Mood(Second Version)(Stereo), the St. Vitous Dance(Stereo), Cherry Blossom(Stereo), Lonely Woman(Stereo) and Next Time I Fall in Love(Stereo) - Sealed Copy, Mono & Stereo Recordings, Promotional Cutout, Product Code BN-LA474-H2 - California Residents Add 9.75% Sales Tax - International S & H Extra -