In Pursuit Of The 27th Man [Remaster]

Performer: Horace Silver
Artist: Michael Brecker; Randy Brecker; David Friedman; Mickey Roker
Engineer: Rudy Van Gelder
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Personnel includes: Horace Silver (piano); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); David Friedman (vibraphone); Bob Cranshaw (electric bass); Mickey Roker (drums). Producer: George Butler. Reissue producer: Michael Cuscuna. Recorded at the Van Gelder Studios, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey between October 6 and November 10, 1972. Includes liner notes by Horace Silver and Bob Blumenthal. All tracks have been digitally remastered. This is part of Blue Note Records "Rudy Van Gelder Editions" series. Personnel: Horace Silver (piano); Bob Cranshaw (electric guitar, electric bass); Michael Brecker (tenor saxophone); Randy Brecker (trumpet, flugelhorn); David Friedman, David Freidman (vibraphone); Mickey Roker (drums). Audio Remasterer: Rudy Van Gelder. Liner Note Authors: Horace Silver; Bob Blumenthal. Recording information: The Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (??/??/1970/11/10/1972). Photographer: Francis Wolff. This obscure Horace Silver LP features two separate sessions by the pianist/composer. On three selections he is joined by trumpeter Randy Brecker, tenor great Michael Brecker, Bob Cranshaw on electric bass and drummer Mickey Roker. The other four numbers feature vibraphonist David Friedman in a quartet with Silver, Cranshaw and Roker, a very unusual sound for a Horace Silver set. But no matter what the instrumentation, the style is pure Silver, hard-driving and melodic hard bop with a strong dose of funky soul. ~ Scott Yanow

Q (4/02, p.136) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...Fulfilling..."

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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