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Silver's Blue
Silver's Blue is a studio album by American jazz pianist Horace Silver recorded for the Epic label in 1956 featuring performances by Silver with Joe Gordon, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins, and Kenny Clarke and another session with Donald Byrd and Art Taylor replacing Gordon and Clarke. Silver, Mobley, Watkins, and Byrd all had recently left The Jazz Messengers. These were Silver's first sessions as a leader after leaving the Messengers.
Reception.
The Allmusic review by Eugene Chadbourne awarded the album 3 stars
November 1968, sponsored by the U.S. government. They also recorded one of Silver's last quintet albums for Blue Note, "You Gotta Take a Little Love". "The Penguin Guide to Jazz"'s retrospective summary of Silver's main Blue Note recordings was that they were of a consistently high standard: "each album yields one or two themes that haunt the mind, each usually has a particularly pretty ballad, and they all lay back on a deep pile of solid riffs and workmanlike solos."
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