July 10, 2014

Horace Silver's Horace-Scope Blue Note 4042: A Cookin' Quintet

Horace Silver Blue Note 4042 LP
Horace Silver (1928-2014) was one of the most important jazz figures of the 20th Century.

Silver's funky down home style piano playing in my opinion was the back bone of the hard-bop movement, which was the answer to the more complex and less danceable be-bop.

Horace had so many great albums for the Blue Note label it's incredible.

I think the pictured LP cover that houses the deep groove vinyl Horace-Scope is one if his best albums, and is an overlooked masterpiece of 60's jazz.

Horace-Scope is a very tasty soul-jazz classic, not soul jazz in a Lou Donaldson Bogaloo kind of way, but a funky JAZZ record, with equal parts gospel and blues dripping from the vinyl grooves.

The wonderful "Nica's Dream" is the lone standard from Horace-Scope, but the other 5 tunes are masterful hard bop from the sweet spot of Silver's Blue Note years. Silver at this point was incapable of creating a bad album.

Blue Note 4042 Horace Silver
This Pictured Blue Note vinyl copy is an original first press mono copy, the 47 West 63rd NYC label and the RVG in the dead wax, assures sonically you're going to get a real listening treat.

This copy is just VG, but even with moderate scuffs and light marks the record sound loud and present. The wide, in your face  sound is why I like these Blue Notes. Can you believe I found this copy at a Goodwill thrift store?

An almost impossible experience, finding an original 60's Blue Note, finding one all is a inor miracle, but one that plays this well really made my day.

I have actually found a total of 5 Blue Notes at that particular location, Big John Patton  Along Came John, and 3 Jimmy Smith 60's Blue Notes. I have had a lot of luck at that location, finding all sorts of rock and other vinyl oddities

How about that wild Reid Miles Album cover? I love the way the musicians names are written across the fingers:

Mitchell on trumpet, Gene Taylor on bass, Junior Cook on tenor, and  Roy Brooks replacing Louis Hays on drums. Just a great and unique cover for a killer record, and a killer quintet.

You can own this copy at a ridiculously cheap price, or one like it available on eBay.




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