The Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues AUDIOPHILE
The Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues - Audiophile
The Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues AUDIOPHILE
The Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues - Audiophile

The Horace Silver Quintet - The Tokyo Blues

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Piano – Horace Silver [click here to see more vinyl featuring Horace Silver]

Trumpet – Blue Mitchell [click here to see more vinyl featuring Blue Mitchell]

Bass – Gene Taylor

Drums – John Harris Jr.

Tenor Saxophone – Junior Cook

Written by Horace Silver (A1-2, B1, B3), Ronnell Bright (B2)

 

1 LP, Gatefold jacket

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : black

Speed : 33RPM

Size : 12”

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : Record Technology Incorporated

Label : Blue Note Tone Poet

Original Label : Blue Note

Recorded on July 13 (A2, B1) and July 14 (A1, B2, B3), 1962

Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder, in Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Produced by Music Matters' Joe Harley

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Design by Reid Miles

Liner Notes by Atsuhiko Kawabata, Horace Silver

Photography by Francis Wolff

Originally Released in 1962

Reissued in 2025

 

 

Tracks :

Side A:

  1. Too Much Sake
  2. Sayanora Blues

Side B:

  1. The Tokyo Blues
  2. Cherry Blossom
  3. Ah! So

 

 

          Review :

          « Following a series of concert dates in Tokyo late in 1961 with his quintet, Horace Silver returned to the U.S. with his head full of the Japanese melodies he had heard during his visit, and using those as a springboard, he wrote four new pieces, which he then recorded at sessions held on July 13 and 14, 1962, along with a version of Ronnell Bright's little known ballad "Cherry Blossom." One would naturally assume the resulting LP would have a Japanese feel, but that really isn't the case. Using Latin rhythms and the blues as a base, Silver's Tokyo-influenced compositions fit right in with the subtle cross-cultural but very American hard bop he'd been doing all along. Using his usual quintet (Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor sax, Gene Taylor on bass) with drummer Joe Harris (he is listed as John Harris, Jr. for this set) filling in for an ailing Roy Brooks), Silver's compositions have a light, airy feel, with plenty of space, and no one used that space better at these sessions than Cook, whose tenor sax lines are simply wonderful, adding a sturdy, reliable brightness. The centerpieces are the two straight blues, "Sayonara Blues" and "The Tokyo Blues," both of which have a delightfully natural flow, and the building, patient take on Bright's "Cherry Blossom," which Silver takes pains to make sure sounds like a ballad and not a barely restrained minor-key romp. The bottom line is that The Tokyo Blues emerges as a fairly typical Silver set from the era and not as a grandiose fusion experiment welding hard bop to Japanese melodies. That might have been interesting, certainly, but Silver obviously assimilated things down to a deeper level before he wrote these pieces, and they feel like a natural extension of his work rather than an experimental detour. » AllMusic Review by Steve Leggett

           

          Rating:

          AllMusic : 4 / 5 ; Discogs 4.61 / 5

           

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