Horace Silver’s traditional The Tokyo Blues is getting launched on vinyl as a part of Blue Notice Data’ Tone Poet collection. Launched in 1962 it’s thought of a gem inside the pianist’s prolific profession.
Silver and his quintet—Blue Mitchell (trumpet), Junior Cook dinner (tenor sax), Gene Taylor (bass), and John Harris Jr (drums)—created these recordings after an inspiring tour of Japan. Per the unique again cowl, Silver devoted this album to “all of our many fans in Japan and to all of the Japanese people who were so very kind to us while we were making our concert tour there.” He continued, “While in Japan, I noticed that the Japanese people were very fond of Latin music, which I also am very fond of. In writing some of these compositions I have attempted to combine Japanese feeling in the melodies with Latin feeling in the rhythms.”
The stereo Tone Poet Vinyl Version was produced by Joe Harley, mastered by Kevin Grey from the unique analog grasp tapes, pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, and packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket.
Silver first grew to become often called a co-founder of The Jazz Messengers alongside Artwork Blakey. With The Jazz Messengers, Silver grew to become identified for outlining exhausting bop, a bebop offshoot that included components of blues and gospel. Silver shaped his personal quintet within the late ’50s they usually launched their first album, Finger Poppin’, in 1959. The quintet launched their sixth and last album, Silver’s Serenade, in 1963.
A brand new iteration of the quintet could be heard on Tune For My Father, which captured a bossa nova beat. The title observe grew to become a jazz customary. Silver’s subsequent album was Cape Verdean Blues, which featured trumpeter Woody Shaw, trombonist JJ Johnson, Joe Henderson (tenor saxophone), Bob Cranshaw (bass), and Roger Humphries (drums).
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