Silver's Blue [Remaster]

Performer: Horace Silver
Artist: Hank Mobley; Art Taylor; Donald Byrd
Engineer: Tony Janak; Fred Plaut
Producer: Cal Lampley
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Personnel: Horace Silver (piano); Hank Mobley (tenor saxophone); Donald Byrd, Joe Gordon (trumpet); Doug Watkins (double bass); Kenny Clarke, Art Taylor (drums). Liner Note Authors: Leonard Feather; Horace Silver. SILVER'S BLUE is one of pianist, composer, and bandleader Horace Silver's finest albums. Released in 1956, and featuring fellow Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers alums Donald Byrd (trumpet) and Hank Mobley (saxophone), it comes across as the very quintessence of mid-'50s hard bop. Silver's three originals shine, as does the band's take on "How Long Has This Been Going On?" The whole album crosses a bluesy, soulful, and groove-oriented feel with the rhythmic and harmonic sophistication of vanguard bop. Silver's masterpiece is 1964's SONG FOR MY FATHER, but newcomers could do worse than to start with this gem.

JazzTimes (pp.104-105) - "SILVER'S BLUE is worth owning for the work of Hank Mobley, one of the most undervalued of all great tenor saxophonists."

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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