Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers [Original recording remastered]

Product Description
This is the seminal album that gave birth to the Blue Note Sound, to Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers and to the Horace Silver Quintet. Shifting be-bop into an earthier, more blues-gospel orbit connected with audiences and forged the direction that hard bop would take for years to come. Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Silver, Doug Watkins and Blakey deliver Horace's compositions with panache and solo with heart-felt invention. A classic.

KENNY DORHAM, trumpet; HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax; HORACE SILVER, piano; DOUG WATKINS, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums

Recorded on November 13, 1954 (#1, 2, 3, 8) and February 6, 1955 (all others) at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

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Average customer rating: The Message is loud and clear! Silver is Gold!!! Hardbop Masterpiece Best Silver, Best Blakey One Hell of a debut for one of the greatest jazz groups of..

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Similar Items: Song for My Father Blowin' the Blues Away Moanin' A Night in Tunisia Finger Poppin ASIN: B0007M23AQ Release Date: 2005-03-01

Tracks:

1. Room 608
2. Creepin' In
3. Stop Time
4. To Whom It May Concern
5. Hippy
6. The Preacher
7. Hankerin'
8. Doodlin'

Album Description

This is the seminal album that gave birth to the Blue Note Sound, to Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers and to the Horace Silver Quintet. Shifting be-bop into an earthier, more blues-gospel orbit connected with audiences and forged the direction that hard bop would take for years to come. Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Silver, Doug Watkins and Blakey deliver Horace's compositions with panache and solo with heart-felt invention. A classic.

KENNY DORHAM, trumpet; HANK MOBLEY, tenor sax; HORACE SILVER, piano; DOUG WATKINS, bass; ART BLAKEY, drums

Recorded on November 13, 1954 (#1, 2, 3, 8) and February 6, 1955 (all others) at the Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey

Customer Reviews:

The Message is loud and clear!.......2006-12-20

This bubbling brew of jazz by Horace and the Messengers is filled to the brim with funk, humor, and attitude. If you like Blue Note, or jazz in general, this is a cd you MUST have. It is certainly one of the greatest jazz recordings of all time with an all star lineup, including Hank Mobley and Art Blakey.

Silver is Gold!!!.......2006-02-14

This CD got me hooked on Horace Silver and started my journey on exploring all of the great Blue Note artists of the 50's and 60's.

The Preacher and Doodlin' are classic Horace Silver compositions.

Hardbop Masterpiece.......2006-02-14

This is the first Jazz Messengers album which soon would go under the tutelage of Art Blakey. From there (read the book Hardbop Academy) the group would go through many line up changes and launch the careers of musicians from inspired (Wayne Shorter) to derivative (Wynton Marsalis) and many in between. This has to be my favorite Jazz Messengers album because most of the pieces on it would become jazz standards. Adding elements of soul and later funk to bebop to create the sub-genre known as hardbop does not sound like much today but it was an act to take away the idea of jazz as music for purely intellectuals and return it to its roots but still keeping it advancing in a new direction. Ever jazz musician with any degree of awareness would name check this album. But forgot the hyperbole. If you are a fan of classic hardbop, sooner or later you will run into this album and when you do, do yourself a favor and pick up a copy.

Best Silver, Best Blakey.......2005-06-09

The Preacher and Creepin In are insanely snappy, making this my favorite Silver recording. Early in the LP era here, this album always had good sound, now made even better with this reissue. The tunes are very soulful; this is not reminiscent of the pedal-to-the-metal Blakey/Silver albums with Clifford Brown @ Birdland. HS and the JM is much more of a hard-bop/bluesy album, the likes of which Silver seemingly effortlessly produced over the following 15 years after this was released.

One Hell of a debut for one of the greatest jazz groups of.........2005-06-08

all time.

This was recorded late in 1954 and finished in early 1955 and is the first recording to feature what would later be called Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers after pianist Silver left later in 1955. The song Doodlin' was my introduction to this great band when I heard it on the Ken Burns Jazz set (which is a great introduction to jazz) and it kicked many buttocks. Hank Mobley is one of the most underrated saxophonists ever and Kenny Dorham is also underrated. Once Dorham showed up Miles Davis at a club so that's how great Dorham played the trumpet, and Art Blakey is superhuman as always. Silver is one of the best pianists I've ever heard and is right up there with Monk.

This is one of the best reissues I've ever seen since I thought this album was long gone. Now if only Columbia/Legacy could rerelease the Louis Armstrong and his Orchestra recordings.

Average customer rating: Disappointing Horace's most famous classic (5 stars) A delightful recording Essential A STRONG 5

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers Manufacturer: Blue Note Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Bebop | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cool Struttin' Mingus Ah Um The Sidewinder Out to Lunch Finger Poppin ASIN: B000005H46 Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Room 608
2. Creepin' In
3. Stop Time
4. To Whom It May Concern
5. Hippy
6. The Preacher
7. Hankerin'
8. Doodlin'

Customer Reviews:

Disappointing.......2006-03-14

I've been playing jazz piano professionally for over 20 years and Horace Silver is among my favorites. I hadn't heard this album so when Horace wrote about this group in the lastest issue of Jazz Times, I definitely wanted to hear this group. As he writes, the individual musicans, Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley (as well as Siver, Blakey and Watkins) are all surperb, giving clear, sophisticated solos. However, the structure (i.e. the tunes) are flat and uninteresting, and except for "The Preacher" hardly worth recording. Compared to the great "Song for My Father" and "Blowin' the Blues Away" albums, sorry, but this one's a flop!

Horace's most famous classic (5 stars).......2005-06-02

This man deserves it. He was the man behind The Jazz Messenger whom him and the drummer Art Blakey formed back together. This sure is a good album and a must-have for all of those die-hard jazz lovers and music lovers must put down rap for a minute and hear this. This one made a discovery in the world of jazz. If u listen to it, you'll hear a difference. I hope ya'll enjoy this.

This is a must 2 add along w/ my collection of the Dizzy's, Miles's, Bird's, Coltranes', Quincy Jones's, etc. I have around.

A delightful recording.......2002-12-10

Horace Silver and Art Blakey, that great drummer, probably are the real pivots of this excellent band, but the horns also pack a real punch. The music of Silver, and indeed more generally that of the various groups performing as "The Jazz Messengers", was always very "jazzy": strongly rooted in the blues and hard, driving swing. Here "The Preacher" reminds one of negro spirituals, and it is a wonderfully zestful tune and group-performance. The tempo is usually not as frenzied, on a recording like this, as that of various other performers in similar "East Coast" groups of the time, but the music is utterly powerful. The articulation of musical ideas is wonderfully clear, aesthetic, inventive, and ordered - without the extravagant cascades and mere loudness of sound that some other groups produced. Many other jazz pianists, or drummers for that matter, tend towards little more than accompaniment, but Silver and Blakey have plenty of their own to say. All in all, this record is a "gas": a constantly stimulating companion over the years, uplifting and joyful. Very satisfying to own and play regularly. - Joost Daalder

Essential.......2001-01-26

In my collection of jazz records, this one is easily in the top five. Silver's and Blakey's solos are some of the best in jazz history, but there is really nothing worng about this album. It moves and grooves, and swings hard. If you've never really heard of Horace Silver, I would definitely buy this album.

A STRONG 5.......2000-05-06

Horace Silver&The Jazz Messengers Sound Great All the way Through here.THE GREAT DRUMMER Art Blakey Fronted The Messengers.The Music here Never Misses The Beat.Strong Arrangements&Playing.A Must Have.

Average customer rating: Track listing for this CD

Un Peu de Menage - Jazz vocals from France Voice Messengers Manufacturer: Black & Blue France ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000280M2 Release Date: 2002-07-01

Customer Reviews:

Track listing for this CD.......2005-07-20

Les Voice Messengers - Un Peu de Menage
MFA - Night & Day
Personnel:
Vocals: Dorothee Lerondeau, Marie-Elisabeth Floquet, Cecile Rikato, Cecile Rigazio, Solange Vergara, Olivier Yeni, Marcus Mennesson, Laurent Hay, Marc Weeger, Michel Guilbaud, Pascal Bournier
Piano: Thierry Lalo
Bass: Gilles Naturel
Percussion: Francois Laudet
Guest personnel:
Jean-Lopu Longnon, chant (singer)
Michele Hendricks, chant (singer)
Stan Laferriere, guitar

Tracks:
1. Un peu de menage / Sister Saide (Horace Silver)
2. Nougat-Miel / Yearnin' (Oliver Nelson)
3. Interlude: Creole love call (Duke Ellington)
4. It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing (Duke Ellington)
5. Over the rainbow (Harburg - Harold Arlen)
6. Le chaperon rouge / Tom Cat (Lee Morgan)
7. Etre Funambule / I will say goodbye (Michel Legrand)
8. Donna Lee (Charlie Parker)
9. I let a song go out of my heart (Irving Mills - Henri Nemo - Duke Ellington)
10. Noces de cherie / Le Sucrier Velours (Duke Ellington)
11. Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn)
12. L'autre vie d'artiste (ou: l'audition) / Spanky (Neal Hefti)

Total time 52'39

Average customer rating:

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers Manufacturer: Blue Note ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00076NYE6 Release Date: 1954-11-13

Tracks:

1. Room 608
2. Creepin' In
3. Stop Time
4. To Whom It May Concern
5. Hippy
6. Preacher
7. Hankerin'
8. Doodlin'

Average customer rating:

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers Manufacturer: Blue Note Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00003WG6G Release Date: 2004-04-27

Tracks:

1. Room 608
2. Creepin' In
3. Stop Time
4. To Whom It May Concern
5. Hippy
6. Preacher
7. Hankerin'
8. Doodlin'

Album Description

24 bit digitally remastered Japanese reissue of classic Blue Note album in a miniaturized LP sleeve limited to the initial pressing only, and with the original artwork intact. Contains all eight tracks from the original 1955 issue. 1999 release.

Album Details

24 bit digitally remastered.

Average customer rating:

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers Horace Silver & the Jazz Messengers Manufacturer: Blue Note ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Blue Note Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0006M18WG Release Date: 2005-02-07

Tracks:

1. Room 608
2. Creepin' In
3. Stop Time
4. To Whom It May Concern
5. Hippy
6. Preacher
7. Hankerin'
8. Doodlin'

Album Description

Japanese limited edition 24-bit remastered reissue of 1953 album. Blue Note. 2005.

Album Details

24bit Digitally Remastered Japanese Release in Celebration of Blue Note's 65th Anniversary.

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