HORACE SILVER jazz LP BLUE NOTE “Tokyo Blues Quintet” MONO Van Gelder NY NM

$

59

Artist:  THE HORACE SILVER QUINTET

Title:   “The Tokyo Blues”

Label:   BLUE NOTE ~ BLP 4110.  Monaural pressing on medium weight vinyl.  Label is blue/white with blue text, without deep groove. 

Label address on both sides is “BLUE NOTE RECORDS INC * NEW YORK USA. 

“VAN GELDER” is stamped in the runout groove on both sides. 

Year:  1962.

Personnel:  

Blue Mitchell  - trumpet

Junior Cook – tenor sax

Horace Silver – piano

Gene Taylor – bass

John Harris Jr. - drums. 

Condition: 

DISC:  NEAR MINT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple very light paper scuffs but no serious or audible issues.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.  This hard-to-find LP is one that you will never need to upgrade.      

JACKET:  NEAR MINT in sparkling clean original factory shrink wrap. The shrink wrap is fully intact, preserving and protecting the underlying beauty of this original vintage jacket.  Slight bumps at two corners – barely noticeable, otherwise the seams and panels are flawless.  Original retail price sticker is affixed to top of front shrink wrap.  A beautiful jacket to accompany the superb disc.  Together with the original factory inner sleeve in top condition, this is indeed the complete package.      

Track Listing: 

Side One:

• Too Much Sake
• Sayanora Blues 

Side Two:

• The Tokyo Blues
• Cherry Blossom
• Ah! So

Review:

“Following a series of concert dates in Tokyo late in 1961 with his quintet, Horace Silver returned to the U.S. with his head full of the Japanese melodies he had heard during his visit, and using those as a springboard, he wrote four new pieces, which he then recorded at sessions held on July 13 and 14, 1962, along with a version of Ronnell Bright's little known ballad "Cherry Blossom."  One would naturally assume the resulting LP would have a Japanese feel, but that really isn't the case.  Using Latin rhythms and the blues as a base, Silver's Tokyo-influenced compositions fit right in with the subtle cross-cultural but very American hard bop he'd been doing all along.  Using his usual quintet (Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor sax, Gene Taylor on bass) with drummer Joe Harris (he is listed as John Harris, Jr. for this set) filling in for an ailing Roy Brooks), Silver's compositions have a light, airy feel, with plenty of space, and no one used that space better at these sessions than Cook, whose tenor sax lines are simply wonderful, adding a sturdy, reliable brightness.  The centerpieces are the two straight blues, "Sayonara Blues" and "The Tokyo Blues," both of which have a delightfully natural flow, and the building, patient take on Bright's "Cherry Blossom," which Silver takes pains to make sure sounds like a ballad and not a barely restrained minor-key romp.  The bottom line is that The Tokyo Blues emerges as a fairly typical Silver set from the era and not as a grandiose fusion experiment welding hard bop to Japanese melodies.  That might have been interesting, certainly, but Silver obviously assimilated things down to a deeper level before he wrote these pieces, and they feel like a natural extension of his work rather than an experimental detour.”

(courtesy Steve Leggett, allmusic.com.)

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