Horace Silver - The Cape Verdean Blues [Jazz][mp3 256][h33t][schon55]

Horace Silver - The Cape Verdean Blues

Original Release Date: October 1, 1965

Audio CD: March 23, 2004

Format: Original recording remastered

Label: Blue Note Records

Bitrate: 256 kbps



From start to finish this is an exceptionally smooth album. It just rolls along transporting you to a very upbeat and cool place. The beautiful rhythm of Horace's piano, the dexterity and speed of Joe Henderson's tenor and the brilliance of Woody Shaw's trumpet are captivating. I normally find the trombone overbearing and out of place but JJ Johnson is absolutely wonderful on this fabulous album.



Much as I enjoy the Horace's better known albums, this is my favourite.



You will not regret buying this album. ~ Frizzante



To my ears there is such a purity to this recording. Sure, the solos, overall musicianship, and song craft are exceptional, but that this not the thing. This album transcends. It is spiritual and loving and dare I say, in some abstract way very "black" (and by that I mean full of universality and depth of experience). Somehow through the Latin-tinged, blues-infused, deep-swinging celebration, one gets the sense that it's all going to be okay. Celebrate universal love and enjoy! A few years later Horace was singing this kind of thing, but he didn't really need to...it was always "within" the music.



J.J. Johnson adds fantastic depth; not a bad song on the disk; never gets old; easy to get wonderfully lost in beautiful abstract thought whilst listening; his best recording. ~ Pure Joy "classicglobal"



Personel:

J.J. Johnson, trombone

Joe Henderson, tenor sax

Woody Shaw, trumpet

Horace Silver, piano

Bob Cranshaw, bass

Roger Humphries, drums



Horace Silver - The Cape Verdean Blues tracks:

01. The Cape Verdean Blues9

02. The African Queen

03. Pretty Eyes

04. Nutville

05. Bonita

06. Mo' Joe