| Serenade for Horace | ||||
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| Released | 2017 | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Label | Blue Note [1] | |||
| Producer | Don Was, Dezron Douglas | |||
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Serenade for Horace is an album by the jazz drummer Louis Hayes, released in 2017. [2] [3] It is a tribute to Horace Silver, Hayes's former bandleader. [4] [5]
The album peaked at No. 23 on Billboard's Jazz Albums chart. [6]
The album was produced by Don Was and Dezron Douglas. [4] Gregory Porter contributed vocals to "Song for My Father". [7] [8] "Hastings Street", about Detroit's Black Bottom neighborhood, is the only song penned by Hayes. [9]
The New York Times wrote that the album "finds Hayes swinging briskly as he revisits the tunes he played in the early years, when he helped define the classic hard-bop sound." [10] DownBeat noted that "some of the album’s best playing ... can be found on the heads, thanks to arrangements that treat the rhythm parts as though they were as integral as the melody—which, of course, they are." [11]
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel opined that Hayes "gathers up a fine bunch of musicians to buttress his rhythmic tribute to and interpretation of Horace Silver." [12] The Buffalo News panned the album, concluding that "the best thing about this disc, by far, are Hayes' personal and wonderful notes." [13]
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
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