The pianist Horace Silver plays with drummer Art Blakey and bassist Gene Ramey, Curly Russell and Percy Heath, a 14 fairly short Triostücke.
One of them wears a downright prophetic programmatic name: "Opus de Funk". It will probably be the first jazz piece, whose title explicitly includes the word "radio".
In fact, this music has little to do with what is degenerate in the late 1960s and 1970s into a stitch. But she's funky, namely dirty, earthy, excited. And it is simple.
Pure percussive pieces are the "Message from Kenya" and "Nothing but the Soul". In the first Art Blakey duets with the Conga Player Sabu (Sabu Martinez ie), in the second he solos. These pieces are quite funky, namely dirty, earthy, excited.
Those interested, as has been developed from the Bebop Hard Bop, can not get around these recordings. But even people who want to just listen to jazz, swings archaic, have come to the right place.
The plate is a good introduction to the world of Horace Silver and Art Blakey, who will direct two of the most successful jazz combos later.
When the trio pieces not so miserably short would be (an average of 3 minutes and 6 seconds, hardly one has been heard in a, it is already too late), I would like a ***** - posted Rating.
