Spiritualizing the Senses

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Spiritualizing the Senses
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Studio album by Horace Silver
Released 1983
Recorded January 19, 1983
Genre Jazz
Label Silverto
Producer Horace Silver
Horace Silver chronology
Guides to Growing Up
(1981) Guides to Growing Up1981		Spiritualizing the Senses
(1983)		 There's No Need to Struggle
(1983) There's No Need to Struggle1983
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Spiritualizing the Senses is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his second released on the Silverto label, featuring performances by Silver with Eddie Harris, Bobby Shew, Ralph Moore, Bob Maize, and Carl Burnett. [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.

Eddie Harris American saxophonist

Eddie Harris was an American jazz musician, best known for playing tenor saxophone and for introducing the electrically amplified saxophone. He was also fluent on the electric piano and organ. His best-known compositions are "Freedom Jazz Dance", recorded and popularized by Miles Davis in 1966, and "Listen Here."

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Reception

The Allmusic review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2½ stars and simply states: "Nice, characteristic hard bop on his own label". [4]

Track listing

All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver
  1. "Smelling Our Attitude"
  2. "Seeing with Perception"
  3. "The Sensitive Touch"
  4. "Exercising Taste and Good Judgement"
  5. "Hearing and Understanding"
  6. "Moving Forward with Confidence"
  • Recorded in New York City on January 19, 1983.

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.

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Bobby Shew is an American jazz trumpet and flugelhorn player.

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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. 182. ISBN   0-394-72643-X.
  3. ↑ Horace Silver discography, accessed November 30, 2009.
  4. ↑ Wynn, R. Allmusic Review, accessed November 30, 2009.
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