Further Explorations

Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet
Studio album by the Horace Silver Quintet
Released	Early May 1958 [1]
Recorded	January 13, 1958
Studio	Van Gelder Hackensack, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:20
Label	Blue Note BLP 1589
Producer	Alfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology
The Stylings of Silver (1957) Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet (1958) Finger Poppin' (1959)

Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet is an album by American jazz pianist Horace Silver, recorded on January 13, 1958, and released on Blue Note Records in 1958. The quintet features horn section Art Farmer and Clifford Jordan and rhythm section Teddy Kotick and Louis Hayes. ^[2]

Background

Silver's tune "Safari" had been recorded by Blue Note before in 1952 and was re-issued as a single to coincide with the release of the album.^{[ citation needed ]}

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz	[4]

The AllMusic review by Steve Leggett states: "Further Explorations is a solid, even striking outing, and if it isn't maybe quite as flashy as some of its predecessors, it is no less substantive and revealing." ^[3]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Horace Silver, except as noted.

Side 1

No.	Title	Length
1.	"The Outlaw"	6:07
2.	"Melancholy Mood"	6:35
3.	"Pyramid"	6:38

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Moon Rays"		10:56
2.	"Safari"		5:11
3.	"Ill Wind"	Harold Arlen Ted Koehler	6:53

Personnel

Horace Silver Quintet

• Horace Silver – piano
• Art Farmer – trumpet (except "Melancholy Mood")
• Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone (except "Melancholy Mood")
• Teddy Kotick – bass
• Louis Hayes – drums

Technical personnel

• Alfred Lion – production
• Rudy Van Gelder – recording engineer
• Reid Miles – design
• Francis Wolff – photography

References

1. Billboard May 19, 1958
2. Silver, Horace (August 2007). Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver - Horace Silver - Google Books. University of California Press. ISBN   9780520253926 . Retrieved May 15, 2020.
3. Leggett, S. AllMusic Review accessed 16 November 2009.
4. Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1299. ISBN   978-0-141-03401-0.