Silver 'n Voices

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Silver 'n Voices
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Studio album by
Released1976
RecordedSeptember 24, October 1, 19 & 22, 1976
Genre Jazz
Label Blue Note
Producer George Butler
Horace Silver chronology
Silver 'n Wood
(1976)
Silver 'n Voices
(1976)
Silver 'n Percussion
(1977)
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Silver 'n Voices is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1976, featuring performances by Silver with Tom Harrell, Bob Berg, Ron Carter, and Al Foster, with an overdubbed choir directed by Alan Copeland featuring Monica Mancini, Avery Sommers, Joyce Copeland, Richard Page, and Dale Verdugo. [3] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and states: "The self-help lyrics get a bit cloying and the voices simply weigh down the music but there are some good solos along the way". [4]

Contents

Track listing

All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver
  1. "Out of the Night (Came You)" – 5:50
  2. "Togetherness" – 5:46
  3. "I Will Always Love You" – 3:37
  4. "Mood for Maude" – 5:27
  5. "Incentive" – 5:19
  6. "New York Lament" – 4:35
  7. "All in Time" – 6:05
  8. "Freeing My Mind" – 4:28
  • Recorded at A&R Studios, NYC on September 24 (tracks 4–7) and October 1 (tracks 1–3 & 8), 1976 with choir recorded at Hollywood Sound Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, on October 19 & 22, 1976.

Personnel

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References

  1. Allmusic Review
  2. Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. Horace Silver discography, accessed November 27, 2009.
  4. Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed November 27, 2009.