For all types of causes, Cape Verdean Blues is a way more modernist providing than Horace Silver’s earlier launch, Music For My Father, and barely much less well-regarded, nevertheless it shouldn’t be. Given the addition of 20-year-old trumpeter Woody Shaw – taking part in on his first Blue Be aware date – and JJ Johnson on facet two, there’s a particular sense of exploration at work right here. On the unique liner notes, Silver reveals how lengthy he had wished to work with Johnson, whose credit score on the report exhibits the respect wherein the pianist held the trombonist. The opposite musicians on the report are Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone), Bob Cranshaw (bass), and Roger Humphries (drums).
“What really turned me on to my heritage was a vacation I took three years ago in Rio with Sergio Mendes, the Brazilian pianist. Now I’m getting a lot of inspiration from African folk music.” Horace Silver, Could 1966
The album’s title monitor, together with the opposite two numbers on facet 1 of the unique LP it was recorded on October 1, 1965, and will simply have been included on Music For My Father. The attractive descending riff performed by the horns that begins “The African Queen,” impressed by a folks tune from the Ivory Coast, is just stunning. It is probably not as effectively referred to as “Song For My Father” however it’s each bit pretty much as good, particularly when an insistent Humphries produces a sound paying homage to West African speaking drums. As soon as Joe Henderson will get to work, barging his manner in to make himself heard, and heard by everybody, the temper is interrupted earlier than we return to the warmth of the African solar courtesy of Woody Shaw’s languid trumpet.
Aspect two, recorded three weeks later, on which Johnson company, is extra advanced, musically, and marginally extra fulfilling because of this. “Nutville” opens with some nice horn play that drives alongside at a tempo and options glorious solos from all 4 principals. “Bonita” grows with depth, with the good thing about some excellent drumming from Humphries, nevertheless it’s Johnson that comes away with the highest prize. All of the compositions except “Mo’ Joe,” from Mr. Henderson, are Silver originals and so they reaffirm his compositional credentials.
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