you see the music oozing out of these guys as they effortlessly and instantaneously shape the flow into logically nuanced 4 dimensional poetic structures.
My father&uncle turned me on to Silver, WOW! what a relavation, his sour off key style had me hooked, but I must admit he's like sushi, an acquired taste.
I don't usually write comments... I discovered this video about 10 years ago or more....and since then, I've returned here hundreds of times, to watch it and listen to it as if it were the first time.... It's an absolute gem, talent, art, respect, "tempo", a wonderful clockwork machine that marks each beat to perfection, several geniuses together, creating "magic"! They always captivate me, surprise me, and leave me stunned, speechless.... They act inside, like a "medicine".... The immense and profound power of cosmic messengers! Thank you for sharing it and may it never disappear from this platform!
I grew up in the same town as him. One time in the late 90's he walked in our high school orchestra rehearsal. Our conductor introduced him with so much pride, but we had no idea who that "old man" was, and frankly weren't impressed. We were all into eminem at the time. Man, were we dumb!
This gives me joy. Listening to and seeing this performance wipes away all intrusive negative thoughts and fills me with a calmness that makes me smile.
Senor Blues is the siren call of an aching heart. I can't stop thinking about how much I love this song. Video of the performance makes it even better.
I was fortunate enough to her Horace in night clubs in Southern California and in college I was playing Upright bass and I got to play with Drummer Louie Bellson
I my house in the 60s, my father played this stuff. We never listened to James Brown in our house. Only Miles, Evans, Roach, Brubeck, Coltrane, Monk, Adderly, Henderson, etc. We listened to James Brown and Motown in his '63 Impala and '66 Coupe DeVille😀
I saw him perform in Glasgow's Fruit Market, he was in his seventies, wearing a very sharp silk suit, which matched the music to perfection. One of the best concerts I ever attended.
I'm a sax player and I had the unbelievably good fortune to hear the following quintet once at a place that was called Boomer's on Bleeker Street in NYC, in1976: Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Ceder Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins! The most unforgettable night of music of my life. They played a number of Horace's tunes that Blue and Junior tore up and one that was out-of-this-world beautiful: "Rapture." Blue's solos that night convinced me that he was the greatest modern jazz trumpeter.
Kirk, you are indeed a fortunate soul to have witnessed the playing of these great jazz pioneers. The atmosphere must have been just electric inside Boomers in 1976. Jazz legends never die! They just keep improvising into the hearts and minds of generations to come. Peace!
I will agree Blue Michell is on of the best trumpeter of his day BUT i wouldn't go as far saying he the Greatest. Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard will give him a run for his money.
Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name a few. the topic of discussion here, would mark him as one of the finest players of his generation.
Horace Silver represents the hard bop genre well, which I love. The slower tempo and less complex melodies allow for deeper emotions to be conveyed through the instrumentation.
Horace Silver is heads above the madding crowd with his focus and intensity and so damn sweet it blows my mind back to yesterday when he was cooking with Junior and Blue; there is a joy that "smack's of a blues that soars and heads right up into the rare and toxic upbeat ether of making it happen...even on a blues. You have to have been there to know that they are playing inside of a flow of burning wonder.
OMG! ......the music was good then. I am so glad to have been around then and playing and listening and talking to all the guys ....the music scene was magical! You could walk into a half dozen spots on Broadway, NYC and hear music like this being performed night...after night....after night. I sure as hell miss it!!!
I met Horace in a record shop in Hermosa Beach in the early 1980's. Started to check out his music and it took me to so many other great artists of his genre. What a prince of a man, he was so sharp and yet so humble. I feel honored to have known him, even though briefly, he really had an everlasting influence on my music. The real musicians know how to act, because their music speaks for itself. He really looked magnificent for an older man, never out of style with that beret.
RIP Horace (June 18th 2014) - one of the absolute greats. Such an unassuming man who had a huge impact on the beginnings of Jazz as well as its constant evolution. A man way ahead of his time.
So lush and fluid. Horace's 'Song For My Father' is an especially loved Horace Silver song. Yes, all the good ones go, but 50 years later, here we all are, groovin' on his music. RIP with music hugging you all the while.
That's one of my favorite as well. There's a live version here. Features Bennie Maupin on tenor sax. Bill Hardman trumpet, Johnny Williams bass and a young Billy Cobham playing a four piece drum kit. 5 years ago
I've been infected with The Horace Effect for decades now since he first blew my mind. Always reaching for something fresh, surprising, and out of the ordinary. I feel his funky mischievous influence every time I set down to play. His spirit endures in every musician he affected so profoundly.
An outstanding performance of the Horace Silver classic. Interesting that Silver used the flat-finger Horowitz approach with his left hand and raised-fingers with his right hand. Thank you for this film.
Horace's piano solo is brilliant. It stopped me in my tracks. I played it through twice. Thank the heavens that somebody filmed this performance and that it is available. Damn right they are professors! Each musician here is showing exactly how it is to be done. But Horace's solo is a gem!
+Mark Straka Hi Mark --- for years and years I wrote Horace Silver off as a cool composer and (very) mediocre pianist. This video really proved me wrong. What great taste he has. I need to check out more of Horace's recordings. Not sure why I've avoided him all these years, but I'm glad to see this performance. I agree with you big time. Thanks, and blessings to you.
+Jim Hendricks I know what you mean about "writing off" people for years. Sometimes it's the genre or style that puts one off. Then, one day you listen in a nonjudgmental frame of mind, and something gets through to you. I did this with Chet Baker. Now, I can't stop listening to his trumpet/flugelhorn lines in awe. You are right: it is a matter of taste in the artist, their wisdom and musical instincts, and not necessarily technical prowess.
That's great - funny that I always loved Chet Baker and loathed Horace Silver, and am coming around to love him, and you didn't like Chet Baker and now can't you stop listening to him! Thanks for your response, and blessings to you, Mark.
So true. I discovered Horace Silver at CD Source, an awesome spot in Dallas. They were playing this when I walked into the store, many years ago and I instantly purchased the cd. I've been hooked on him every since.
Brings back wonderful memories as my father would 'school us' about the JAZZ GREATs.....Horace Silver was definitely one of the THEM!! Awesome musicianship!! Cant help patting my feet! I love the way the movements flow and change!!!
All of them just great musicians. Love all the solos. Blue is one of the great trumpet players to my mind. I saw him as a leader in SF back in the 70s-he walked all around the room spreading jubilation. And I love Horace's too cool solo here too! But they're all so fine!
This is music....beyond most other music. Well structured minor-key latin blues shuffle with tasty soloing suddenly gets lifted out of itself and deconstructed - while retaining it's structure- by an astounding piano solo. Jazz at it's finest. The highest forms of playing on display here. Taut and spare. Not a bar too many or too few.
you see the music oozing out of these guys as they effortlessly and instantaneously shape the flow into logically nuanced 4 dimensional poetic structures.
....This is the music of my peoples!
Yesssss. You put it right into words. The perfect words for this. I want to say more but ill just leave your words to describe it all. Bless.
Steven Mercy this is the music of all....ALL people. Stunning. Fantabulous. Universal. And still so down to earth and cozy and pure.
HEAVY
My father&uncle turned me on to Silver, WOW! what a relavation, his sour off key style had me hooked, but I must admit he's like sushi, an acquired taste.
I don't usually write comments...
I discovered this video about 10 years ago or more....and since then, I've returned here hundreds of times, to watch it and listen to it as if it were the first time....
It's an absolute gem, talent, art, respect, "tempo", a wonderful clockwork machine that marks each beat to perfection, several geniuses together, creating "magic"!
They always captivate me, surprise me, and leave me stunned, speechless....
They act inside, like a "medicine"....
The immense and profound power of cosmic messengers!
Thank you for sharing it and may it never disappear from this platform!
This man and Joe Henderson started me listening to Jazz back there in the middle 60s
One of my favorite introduction to jazz beats
Horace Silver - piano
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Junior Cook - tenor saxophone
Gene Taylor - bass
Louis Hayes - drums
thank you for sharing! this is MUSIC! immense -
Hotel=Trivago
Thank you.
Good to know one of the greats is still here with us. God bless Louis Hayes. Set the tone for so many of Horace's tunes.
Thanks - Gene Taylor is the one I did not Know.
I grew up in the same town as him. One time in the late 90's he walked in our high school orchestra rehearsal. Our conductor introduced him with so much pride, but we had no idea who that "old man" was, and frankly weren't impressed. We were all into eminem at the time. Man, were we dumb!
Isn't life funny how we look back at the things that were in front of our faces and didn't understand or did nothing with.
It's OK it's high school you're never as cool as you think.
I grew up there as well this guy is my kin. So proud.
Norwalk, CT. Me too. Mr Cool
@edweber3041 I subscribed to your channel cause you love Horace and we are both born and raised in Norwalk Ct.
This gives me joy. Listening to and seeing this performance wipes away all intrusive negative thoughts and fills me with a calmness that makes me smile.
Senor Blues is the siren call of an aching heart. I can't stop thinking about how much I love this song. Video of the performance makes it even better.
It sounds so fresh still, 64 years later. It must have seemed like something very different at the time.
How many times can I hit the Like button? One Millions times!
I was fortunate enough to her Horace in night clubs in Southern California and in college I was playing Upright bass and I got to play with Drummer Louie Bellson
I my house in the 60s, my father played this stuff. We never listened to James Brown in our house. Only Miles, Evans, Roach, Brubeck, Coltrane, Monk, Adderly, Henderson, etc. We listened to James Brown and Motown in his '63 Impala and '66 Coupe DeVille😀
Jazz is like fine wine, it only gets better every year.
Yes, jazz is forever!
They didn't HAVE to wear suits they WANTED to. That was the style back then. It also reflects a seriousness and respect for the music.
-Austin
Class and talent.
I saw him perform in Glasgow's Fruit Market, he was in his seventies, wearing a very sharp silk suit, which matched the music to perfection. One of the best concerts I ever attended.
I would have loved that, great experience
Horace-Siver's body may has left this world ....but his soul is JAMMMINNN...somewhere..
RIP my main man...
This is such a wonderful song. I keep listening to it over and over.
Horace Silver a man born on the Cape Verde Islands, excellent pianist
I'm a sax player and I had the unbelievably good fortune to hear the following quintet once at a place that was called Boomer's on Bleeker Street in NYC, in1976: Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Ceder Walton, Sam Jones and Billy Higgins! The most unforgettable night of music of my life. They played a number of Horace's tunes that Blue and Junior tore up and one that was out-of-this-world beautiful: "Rapture." Blue's solos that night convinced me that he was the greatest modern jazz trumpeter.
Kirk, you are indeed a fortunate soul to have witnessed the playing of these great jazz pioneers. The atmosphere must have been just electric inside Boomers in 1976. Jazz legends never die! They just keep improvising into the hearts and minds of generations to come. Peace!
How lucky are you!
I will agree Blue Michell is on of the best trumpeter of his day BUT i wouldn't go as far saying he the Greatest. Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard will give him a run for his money.
Agreed
Blue is the best !!
Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name a few. the topic of discussion here, would mark him as one of the finest players of his generation.
Horace thank you for the wonderful music you left us all
The Grand Pop of Hard Bop. YEAH!
Horace Silver represents the hard bop genre well, which I love. The slower tempo and less complex melodies allow for deeper emotions to be conveyed through the instrumentation.
Rest in Peace Mr. Horace Silver🕊️ Great musicians💪🏾🇨🇻
Nice to see audiences quiet and listening rather that trying to record this on their phones or jumping around.
Love the photography too
Horace Silver is heads above the madding crowd with his focus and intensity and so damn sweet it blows my mind back to yesterday when he was cooking with Junior and Blue; there is a joy that "smack's of a blues that soars and heads right up into the rare and toxic upbeat ether of making it happen...even on a blues. You have to have been there to know that they are playing inside of a flow of burning wonder.
I love to read the comments when it comes to world-class music like this. They're always so poetic and in love with the music.
Beautiful! Young, very alive, strong and brilliant, all of them.
Hello Carol
Mr. Horace Silver is the master of the blues chords (with Mr. Theolonius Monk)
The jazz world has lost its master today. RIP Horace Silver.
OMG! ......the music was good then. I am so glad to have been around then and playing and listening and talking to all the guys ....the music scene was magical! You could walk into a half dozen spots on Broadway, NYC and hear music like this being performed night...after night....after night. I sure as hell miss it!!!
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RIP HORACE SILVER..LOVE YOU ALWAYS!
I met Horace in a record shop in Hermosa Beach in the early 1980's. Started to check out his music and it took me to so many other great artists of his genre. What a prince of a man, he was so sharp and yet so humble. I feel honored to have known him, even though briefly, he really had an everlasting influence on my music. The real musicians know how to act, because their music speaks for itself. He really looked magnificent for an older man, never out of style with that beret.
real brothers
Cooooo~~~~
I hear more of an Afro, and American blues influence than Latin influence, simply the best groove, the best jam.
caught this on WJRC tonight in Detroit...wanted to hear it again...the best...what a time for beautiful jazz....
Truly wonderful playing. Sensitive, sophisticated full of humanity. One of my all time favourite performances
I have listened to Horace Silver since the 1960s🥂
me too...a GREAT era for jazz...went to so many concerts in Detroit...Horace..a real gentleman...
Horace Silver's music feeds my soul. I also love his Song for My Father.
Hello Donna
This is an African a genius.let him rest in perfect Peace.
RIP you wonderful person!
These Cats were smoooth with it!
Man that is some laid back music!
It dont get no better than this.
RIP Horace (June 18th 2014) - one of the absolute greats. Such an unassuming man who had a huge impact on the beginnings of Jazz as well as its constant evolution. A man way ahead of his time.
That’s my cousin. He was the first cousin of my great grandfather. God rest his soul. Rest In Peace, papa. ✊🏾🇨🇻
@@noah32295Nice to see sarcasm from 5 years ago. But I assure you he’s my blood.
@@StoleBearerwhere u from mayu/maio?
R.I.P. to my favorite jazz musician of all time, Horace Silver
(2 September 1928 - 18 June 2014)
❤
Thank you Horace for all your beautiful music. R.I.P
beautiful music Horace Silver.Thanks
Young, strong, together, and quietly passionate. So thankful for the recording.
So lush and fluid. Horace's 'Song For My Father' is an especially loved Horace Silver song. Yes, all the good ones go, but 50 years later, here we all are, groovin' on his music. RIP with music hugging you all the while.
That's one of my favorite as well. There's a live version here. Features Bennie Maupin on tenor sax. Bill Hardman trumpet, Johnny Williams bass and a young Billy Cobham playing a four piece drum kit.
5 years ago
One of the Greats. Will be missed. :-(
This is the birth of the Soul .
I've been infected with The Horace Effect for decades now since he first blew my mind. Always reaching for something fresh, surprising, and out of the ordinary. I feel his funky mischievous influence every time I set down to play. His spirit endures in every musician he affected so profoundly.
OOh my god, i have not words to express my deep respect for these guys, Horace in prime. Killing me softly with this song.
Good music., I really enjoyed it.,
RIP, Mr Horace Silver..you were one of a kind,very special.
I love this! Blue Mitchell getting it, Horace and junior are all beasts!
One the finest Jazz songs I've ever heard.
Horace is an absolute God
One of my fave cuts. Would that jazz still had that edge in the music biz. Blue Mitchell, a heavyweight who left too soon.
An outstanding performance of the Horace Silver classic. Interesting that Silver used the flat-finger Horowitz approach with his left hand and raised-fingers with his right hand. Thank you for this film.
MET Mr Silver while working at All State record we carried Blue Note record all ways a gentleman! I THANK him for the memories !
A giant of piano, composition, sound and so talented. He deserves much more recognition but the jazz and music in général amateurs know..
This Music Speaks To Me !! Thanks For The Post!!
Thank you for enriching our lives with your wonderful music.
Wow, Austin, see what you've done. It's a beautiful thing! Long live the Horace Silver legacy.
Genialne wręcz 👍
My favorite jazz era, straight ahead!
Even with the low quality video, you can see the sweat dripping off his nose. Pure passion. RIP
Greasy Riff Jazz at it's Slickest !
It must have been a hot room they're all sweating profusely.
@@stuartpedaso2949 Its the lights, I think.
This quintet was absolutely mesmerizing. The connection between Horace and the audience was extraordinary.
Can't even say anything.. Just amazing!!!
Happy Birthday Blue!
RIP Horace... a true master.
Damn!... These jazz masters just blow me out to mars somewhere... I don't care where... just somewhere where it's peaceful... 🕸🌹
Silver was a stone. cold. genius.
Wow...Sensual and soulfully brilliant
Horace's piano solo is brilliant. It stopped me in my tracks. I played it through twice. Thank the heavens that somebody filmed this performance and that it is available. Damn right they are professors! Each musician here is showing exactly how it is to be done. But Horace's solo is a gem!
+Mark Straka Let 'em know, Mr Straka. 'Nuff said. RIP, Horace Silver. Musician. Blessings
+Mark Straka
I agree 200% with you, Sir.
+Mark Straka Hi Mark --- for years and years I wrote Horace Silver off as a cool composer and (very) mediocre pianist. This video really proved me wrong. What great taste he has. I need to check out more of Horace's recordings. Not sure why I've avoided him all these years, but I'm glad to see this performance. I agree with you big time. Thanks, and blessings to you.
+Jim Hendricks I know what you mean about "writing off" people for years. Sometimes it's the genre or style that puts one off. Then, one day you listen in a nonjudgmental frame of mind, and something gets through to you. I did this with Chet Baker. Now, I can't stop listening to his trumpet/flugelhorn lines in awe. You are right: it is a matter of taste in the artist, their wisdom and musical instincts, and not necessarily technical prowess.
That's great - funny that I always loved Chet Baker and loathed Horace Silver, and am coming around to love him, and you didn't like Chet Baker and now can't you stop listening to him! Thanks for your response, and blessings to you, Mark.
I can watch this over and over. Just fantastic!
Every time we lose another great musician, these videos mean that much more. Thanks for posting this!
So true. I discovered Horace Silver at CD Source, an awesome spot in Dallas. They were playing this when I walked into the store, many years ago and I instantly purchased the cd. I've been hooked on him every since.
Brings back wonderful memories as my father would 'school us' about the JAZZ GREATs.....Horace Silver was definitely one of the THEM!! Awesome musicianship!! Cant help patting my feet! I love the way the movements flow and change!!!
Great music, Great Musicians The joy of great Jazz Music
what a composition!
Such a wonderful sense of fluidity, effortlessness, and character. Their balance and harmony is so soothing & moving- I couldn't help but dance!
Wow! How did I miss these guys?❤️
I could listen to Horace play all day 😍❤️
me too!
me too
Loving the clean and cool vibes! So simple, yet every member hits every little bit together.
Fantastic Fabulous Wonderful
This is an outstanding performance of jazz music. Period.
I'd "like" this a million times... Did they know how unique this is while they were playing it?
deep and p[owerful!!! thank you mr. silver and all the great musicians!!!
I can’t get enough of Horace’s demeanor when he’s playing.
dear lawd, please don't take me before this song is done.
All of them just great musicians. Love all the solos. Blue is one of the great trumpet players to my mind. I saw him as a leader in SF back in the 70s-he walked all around the room spreading jubilation. And I love Horace's too cool solo here too! But they're all so fine!
real brothers
Of that generation of trumpet players, no one made the horn sound better than Blue Mitchell and Lee Morgan.
Blue Mitchel, unquestionably one of the greatest.
Truly gifted. Pleasure hardly describes it. A wonderful team.
I could listen to this composition over and over again non stop. I sometimes do. Horacio Silva, as tuas composicoes sao hipnoticas!
I’ve recently discovered a masterpiece
I’m inspired as I once was as a kid all over again
I feel alive
I'm 29 and I've always had an itch for Jazz and finally got into it. I came acoss this video and wow! I feel this song deep in my soul!
Thank you & Thankful 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Horace Silver is my FAVORITE composer! Can’t get enough of his stuff!!!!
This is music....beyond most other music.
Well structured minor-key latin blues shuffle with tasty soloing suddenly gets lifted out of itself and deconstructed - while retaining it's structure- by an astounding piano solo. Jazz at it's finest. The highest forms of playing on display here.
Taut and spare. Not a bar too many or too few.
When it comes to Jazz you experience it like me. You vocalise it só well.
A million thank yous to whom ever shared this fantastic slice of Americana .....
BRAVO ...!