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.
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.
