Showing posts with label Horace Silver. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horace Silver. Show all posts

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Horace Silver's Silver In Seattle: Live at the Penthouse issued by Blue Note

Blue Note is releasing a rippin' Horace Silver live recording with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw in Seattle back in 1965. 

Here's the scoop...

The great jazz pianist, composer, and Blue Note legend Horace Silver only released one live album during his lifetime, but his quintets were always among the most reliably thrilling working bands in jazz, delivering high-energy, crowd-pleasing performances of Silver’s indelible compositions to fans around the world. In August 1965, Silver brought a powerhouse line-up to The Penthouse in Seattle with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Teddy Smith on bass, and Roger Humphries on drums. A newly discovered recording of those performances gets its first-ever release with Silver In Seattle: Live at the Penthouse featuring the band delivering uninhibited renditions of Silver classics including “Song For My Father,” “The Cape Verdean Blues,” “The Kicker,” and more. 

Kinda makes you wonder what other amazing, historically important recordings have been collecting dust for decades in the Blue Note vaults. In any case, you can get a copy of Horace Silver's Silver In Seattle via Blue Note directly right here. Check out "The Kicker" and "No Smokin'" below. 

Horace Silver – Silver In Seattle: Live at The Penthouse

Side A:

1. The Kicker

2. Song For My Father

3. The Cape Verdean Blues


Side B:

1. Sayonara Blues

2. Band Introductions

3. No Smokin'



Monday, October 28, 2024

Happy Birthday Andy Bey!

Raising a glass to soulful jazz vocalist Andy Bey with an interview and a couple of stellar performances. 







Sunday, June 25, 2023

Jazz Fest Mixdown: Spinning Jazz with Pete Evans

Listen to two solid hours of 60s and 70s jazz gems selected by DJ Pete Evans right here. Check the track list below. 

Spinning Jazz (from June 18th) with Pete Evans

Horace Silver – Song For My Father

Joe Lee Wilson – Song For My Father

Joy – Martini Sweet

Harold Land – Chocolate Mess

Johnny Lytle – Moon Child

John Patton – Blue John

Teddy Edwards – Sandy

Barry Harris – Sun Dance

Ramsey Lewis – Bold And Black

Reuben Wilson – Hot Rod

Reuben Wilson – Sweet Tooth

Reuben Wilson – Stoned Out Of My Mind

Reuben Wilson – Sugar

Joe Bataan – Triste

Moacir Santos – Sampaguita

Johnny Pacheco – Sugar Frost

Johnny Rivera – Boogaloo Que La Traigo

Houston Person – Crazy Legs

Hank Mobley – 18th Hole

 

Friday, May 26, 2023

Watch Lee Morgan, Andy Bey and Horace Silver on PBS' Soul! in 1972

Instead of Lawrence Welk reruns, PBS should be airing shows like their Soul! special featuring Blue Note jazz greats back in '72.


Sunday, July 10, 2022

Happy Birthday Lee Morgan!

Remembering trumpet titan Lee Morgan on his birthday with a stellar PBS performance alongside Billy Harper from 1972. 


Monday, June 20, 2022

Mulatu Astatke vs. Horace Silver

Mulatu Astatke put his own Ethiopian spin on Horace Silver's "Song For My Father" and called it "Yèkèrmo Sèw"




Tuesday, May 19, 2020

That time Andy Bey joined Horace Silver for "I've Had A Little Talk"

Here's the incomparable Andy Bey with Horace Silver performing "I've Had A Little Talk" – the footage is rough but rare. 


Monday, October 28, 2019

Happy 80th Birthday Andy Bey!

Celebrating Andy Bey's birthday with Dr. Bop's informative 1991 interview – with rare performance clips – covering the years 1962-1974. 





Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Happy Birthday Blue Mitchell

Remembering trumpet great Blue Mitchell with a swingin' performance of Señor Blues accompanying Horace Silver. 

Sunday, February 22, 2015

RIP Clark Terry, 1920-2015

Remembering Clark Terry with "Swahili" from 1954 backed by Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Oscar Pettiford.

Friday, June 20, 2014

One For The Weekend: Horace Silver

Remembering the late jazz piano great Horace Silver with a 1968 performance of Nutville in Denmark.