Silver 'n Wood

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Silver 'n Wood
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Studio album by Horace Silver
Released 1976
Recorded November 7, 1975, January 2 & 3, 1976
Genre Jazz
Label Blue Note
Producer George Butler
Horace Silver chronology
Silver 'n Brass
(1975)		Silver 'n Wood
(1976)		 Silver 'n Voices
(1976)
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Silver 'n Wood is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1975 featuring performances by Silver with Tom Harrell, Bob Berg, Ron Carter and Al Foster, with an overdubbed horn section conducted by Wade Marcus featuring Buddy Collette, Fred Jackson, Jr., Jerome Richardson, Lanny Morgan, Jack Nimitz, Bill Green, Garnett Brown, and Frank Rosolino. [3]

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as "America's classical music". Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African-American and European-American musical parentage with a performance orientation. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

Horace Silver American jazz pianist and composer.

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.

Blue Note Records American record label

Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label that is owned by Universal Music Group and operated with Decca Records. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derives its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, from 1947 the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz. Although the original company did not record many of the pioneers of bebop, significant exceptions are Thelonious Monk, Fats Navarro and Bud Powell.

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and states: "The two sidelong works ('The Tranquilizer Suite' and 'The Process of Creation Suite') are not all that memorable but the music overall (helped out by strong solos) is typical Silver hard bop". [4]

Scott Yanow is an American jazz reviewer, historian, and author.

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Silver
  1. "The Tranquilizer Suite Part 1: Keep On Gettin' Up" -
  2. "The Tranquilizer Suite Part 2: Slow Down" -
  3. "The Tranquilizer Suite Part 3: Time And Effort" -
  4. "The Tranquilizer Suite, Part 4: Perseverance And Endurance" -
  5. "The Process Of Creation Suite Part 1: Motivation" -
  6. "The Process Of Creation Suite Part 2: Activation" -
  7. "The Process Of Creation Suite Part 3: Assimilation" -
  8. "The Process Of Creation Suite Part 4: Creation" -
  • Recorded at A&R Studios, NYC on November 7, 1975 & overdubs at Wally Heider Sound Studio III, Los Angeles, CA on January 2 & 3, 1976.

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Tom Harrell American composer and arranger and a jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist

Tom Harrell is an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger. Voted Trumpeter of the Year of 2018 byJazz Journalists Association, Harrell has won awards and grants throughout his career, including multiple Trumpeter of the Year awards from Down Beat magazine, SESAC Jazz Award, BMI Composers Award, and Prix Oscar du Jazz. He received a Grammy Award nomination for his big band album, Time's Mirror.

Trumpet musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group contains the instruments with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpet-like instruments have historically been used as signaling devices in battle or hunting, with examples dating back to at least 1500 BC; they began to be used as musical instruments only in the late 14th or early 15th century. Trumpets are used in art music styles, for instance in orchestras, concert bands, and jazz ensembles, as well as in popular music. They are played by blowing air through nearly-closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded rectangular shape.

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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.
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