The Tokyo Blues

Performer: Horace Silver
Artist: Blue Mitchell
Producer: Alfred Lion; Michael Cuscuna (Reissue)
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Horace Silver (piano); Junior Cook (tenor saxophone); Blue Mitchell (trumpet); Gene Taylor (bass instrument, bass guitar); John Harris, Jr. (drums). Audio Remasterer: Rudy Van Gelder. Despite its title, and its cover art (which shows Horace Silver seated with two Japanese geishas in a traditional Japanese rock garden), 1962'S TOKYO BLUES is not particularly influenced by East Asian modalities or structures. Instead, cuts like "Too Much Sake" and "Sayonara Blues" find Silver mining the sophisticated hard bop vein for which he's known, assimilating elements of Latin groove and deep blues into his soulful, swinging sound. Top-shelf personnel, which includes trumpeter Blue Mitchell and saxophonist Junior Cook, makes this another winner in Silver's discography.

Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "A classic....Silver's quintet includes the impeccable Blue Mitchell on trumpet and Junior Cook on tenor sax."

Pianist and composer Horace Silver was, along with Art Blakey, one of the primary instigators of the hard-bop jazz movement of the 1950s. Silver turned a limited piano technique to his advantage, welding simple but memorable phrases to driving, muscular rhythms, molding a style whose influence has only grown stronger with the years.

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