Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu

Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2
Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2
Compilation album by Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey
Released	1953
Recorded	November 23, 1953
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC
Label	Blue Note; BLP 5034

Introducing the Horace Silver Trio
Introducing the Horace Silver Trio
Studio album by Horace Silver
Released	1952
Recorded	October 9 and 20, 1952
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC
Label	Blue Note; BLP 5018

Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu
Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu
Compilation album by Horace Silver
Released	October 1956
Recorded	October 9 and 20, 1952 and November 23, 1953
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Length	40:26
Label	Blue Note; BLP 1520
Producer	Alfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	^[2]

Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu is an album by the Horace Silver Trio featuring drummer Art Blakey and conga player Sabu, recorded on October 9 & 20, 1952 and November 23, 1953 respectively and released on Blue Note in 1956.^[3]

Background

The sessions were previously issued on two 10"s, Introducing the Horace Silver Trio (1952) and Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 (1953), respectively.^[4] While the original 12" LP omitted four tracks from these earlier 10" LPs, the CD reissue includes all 16 tracks from the original sessions.^[5]^[6]

Track listing

Original release

All tracks are written by Horace Silver except where noted

Side 1
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Safari"			October 9, 1952	2:47
2.	"Ecaroh"			October 20, 1952	3:10
3.	"Prelude to a Kiss"	Irving Gordon, Irving Mills	Duke Ellington	October 20, 1952	2:47
4.	"Message from Kenya"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	2:47
5.	"Horoscope"			October 9, 1952	3:47
6.	"Yeah"			October 20, 1952	2:45

Side 2
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Date recorded	Length
1.	"How About You?"	Ralph Freed	Burton Lane	November 23, 1953	3:40
2.	"I Remember You"	Johnny Mercer	Victor Schertzinger	November 23, 1953	3:52
3.	"Opus de Funk"			November 23, 1953	3:26
4.	"Nothing but the Soul"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	4:07
5.	"Silverware"			November 23, 1953	2:34
6.	"Day In, Day Out"	Johnny Mercer	Rube Bloom	November 23, 1953	3:00

CD reissue

All tracks are written by Horace Silver except where noted

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Horace-Scope"			October 9, 1952	3:47
2.	"Safari"			October 9, 1952	2:47
3.	"Thou Swell"	Lorenz Hart	Richard Rodgers	October 9, 1952	2:52
4.	"Quicksilver"			October 20, 1952	3:00
5.	"Ecaroh"			October 20, 1952	3:10
6.	"Yeah"			October 20, 1952	2:45
7.	"Knowledge Box"			October 20, 1952	2:46
8.	"Prelude to a Kiss"	Irving Gordon, Irving Mills	Duke Ellington	October 20, 1952	2:47
9.	"I Remember You"	Johnny Mercer	Victor Schertzinger	November 23, 1953	3:52
10.	"Opus de Funk"			November 23, 1953	3:26
11.	"Day In, Day Out"	Johnny Mercer	Rube Bloom	November 23, 1953	3:00
12.	"Silverware"			November 23, 1953	2:34
13.	"How About You?"	Ralph Freed	Burton Lane	November 23, 1953	3:40
14.	"Buhaina"			November 23, 1953	3:04
15.	"Message from Kenya"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	4:30
16.	"Nothing but the Soul"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	4:07
Total length:					50:08

Introducing the Horace Silver Trio – BLP 5018

Side 1
No.	Title	Date recorded
1.	"Safari"	October 9, 1952
2.	"Ecaroh"	October 20, 1952
3.	"Prelude to a Kiss"	October 20, 1952
4.	"Thou Swell"	October 9, 1952

Side 2
No.	Title	Date recorded
1.	"Quicksilver"	October 20, 1952
2.	"Horoscope"	October 9, 1952
3.	"Yeah"	October 20, 1952
4.	"Knowledge Box"	October 20, 1952

Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 – BLP 5034

Side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded
1.	"How About You"	Lane Freed	November 23, 1953
2.	"I Remember You"	Mercer Schertzinger	November 23, 1953
3.	"Silverware"	Silver	November 23, 1953
4.	"Message from Kenya"	Blakey	November 23, 1953

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded
1.	"Opus de Funk"	Silver	November 23, 1953
2.	"Nothing but the Soul"	Blakey	November 23, 1953
3.	"Buhaina"	Silver	November 23, 1953
4.	"Day In, Day Out"	Mercer Bloom	November 23, 1953

Personnel

Horace Silver Trio

October 9, 1952

Horace Silver – piano
Gene Ramey – bass
Art Blakey – drums

October 20, 1952

Horace Silver – piano
Curley Russell – bass
Art Blakey – drums

November 23, 1953

Horace Silver – piano (except "Message from Kenya", "Nothing but the Soul")
Percy Heath – bass (except "Message from Kenya", "Nothing but the Soul")
Art Blakey – drums
Sabu – conga ("Message from Kenya")

Technical personnel

Alfred Lion – production
Reid Miles, John Hermansader (BLP 5018), Jerome Kuhl (BLP 5034) – design
Francis Wolff – photography
Rudy Van Gelder – remastering
Leonard Feather – liner notes

References

↑ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1298. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
↑ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
↑ Yanow, Scott. "Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 1: Spotlight on Drums". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
↑ "Horace Silver Discography Project". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
↑ "Horace Silver Trio". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.
↑ "Horace Silver Trio". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

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[Penguin-1] Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1298. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.

[RSJRG-2] Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.

[3] Yanow, Scott. "Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 1: Spotlight on Drums". Allmusic.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

[4] "Horace Silver Discography Project". jazzdisco.org. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

[discogsCD-5] "Horace Silver Trio". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

[6] "Horace Silver Trio". discogs.com. Retrieved 3 December 2014.

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Horace Silver
Years indicated are for the recording(s), not first release.
Blue Note albums	New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio) (1952)/Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu (1952–53) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1954–55) 6 Pieces of Silver (1956–58) The Stylings of Silver (1957) Further Explorations (1958) Live at Newport '58 (1958) Finger Poppin' (1959) Blowin' the Blues Away (1959) Horace-Scope (1960) Doin' the Thing (1961) The Tokyo Blues (1962) Silver's Serenade (1963) Song for My Father (1963–64) The Cape Verdean Blues (1965) The Jody Grind (1966) Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968) You Gotta Take a Little Love (1969) That Healin' Feelin', The United States of Mind, Phase 1 (1970) Total Response, The United States of Mind, Phase 2 (1970–71) All, The United States of Mind, Phase 3 (1972) The United States of Mind (compilation of the 3 'Phase' albums, 1970–72) In Pursuit of the 27th Man (1972) Silver 'n Brass (1975) Silver 'n Wood (1975–76) Silver 'n Voices (1976) Silver 'n Percussion (1977) Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres (1978–79)
Albums released on other labels	Silver's Blue (1956) Live 1964 (1964) Guides to Growing Up (1981) Spiritualizing the Senses (1983) There's No Need to Struggle (1983) The Continuity of Spirit (1985) Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription for the Blues (1997) Jazz Has a Sense of Humor (1998)
Art Blakey/The Jazz Messengers	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1954) A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (1954) A Night at Birdland Vol. 3 (1954) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1 (1955) At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 2 (1955) The Jazz Messengers (1956) The Cool Voice of Rita Reys (1956) Originally (1956)
With others	Introducing Nat Adderley (1955) Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver (Dee Dee Bridgewater, 1994) Byrd's Eye View (Donald Byrd, 1955) Whims of Chambers (Paul Chambers, 1956) Bohemia After Dark (Kenny Clarke, 1955) Al Cohn's Tones (Al Cohn, 1950) Miles Davis, Volume 3 (1954) Miles Davis Quartet/Blue Haze/Miles Davis Quintet/ Miles Davis All-Star Sextet/Walkin' (1953/54) Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins/Bags' Groove (1954) Quartet/Quintet/Sextet (Lou Donaldson, 1952) Afro-Cuban (Kenny Dorham, 1955) The Art Farmer Septet (1953–54) When Farmer Met Gryce (Art Farmer/Gigi Gryce, 1955) The Complete Roost Recordings (Stan Getz, 1950–51) Nica's Tempo (Gigi Gryce, 1955) Disorder at the Border (Coleman Hawkins, 1952) Milt Jackson Quartet (1955) Plenty, Plenty Soul (Milt Jackson, 1957) The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson Volume 2 (J.J. Johnson, 1955) Blowing in from Chicago (Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore, 1957) Hank Mobley Quartet (1955) Hank Mobley Sextet (1956) Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957) Hank Mobley Quintet (1957) J. R. Monterose (1956) Lee Morgan Indeed! (1956) Lee Morgan Sextet (1956) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (1957) Clark Terry (1955)
Selected singles	"Opus de Funk" (1953) "The Preacher"/"Doodlin'" (1955/54) "Señor Blues" (1956) "Sister Sadie" (1959) "Nica's Dream" (1960) "Song for My Father" (1964)
Discography