Horace Silver: Blowin' The Blues Away LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) canada-day-eligible B4: Arboretum

B4: Arboretum

B2: Chant Of The Weed

and extended sections of Bordeaux are beguilingly beautiful

it's a whirlwind compendium of surprising harmonic twists and impossibly complicated time signatures

Horace Silver: Blowin' The Blues Away LP (Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series) canada-day-eligible B4: ArboretumBlue Note, 1959 The Horace Silver Quintet of 1959 was a hard bop juggernaut featuring the great pianist and composer with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes. The band had already cut the excellent album Finger Poppin earlier in the year and returned to Van Gelder Studio in the late summer to record the follow up Blowin The Blues Away. From the moment the needle drops on Side 1 the quintet