![]() ![]() It’s hardly full of faux-Japonisms, more packed full of allusions, impressions, sentiments and observations of a very different culture. The band’s recent trip to Japan, at the time, left a deep impression on Horace, enough to construct a whole album around. This February 1959 date delivered the Blue Mitchell-Junior Cook band to the wider world and also gave us ‘Cookin’ At The Continental’ and a whole host of different moods that added up to the most satisfying sum of the parts Silver had yet come up with on a 12" vinyl outing. After the parting of the ways with Art Blakey, this first Blue Note quintet album under Silver’s name (there had been one for Epic earlier in the year) delivered the imperishable ‘Senor Blues’ and instant acclaim. The 1956 date that got the bandwagon up and rolling. ![]() ![]() ‘Ecaroh’ and ‘Opus de Funk’ will show you the way. Recorded in 1952-3, Horace may be showing his models here, but more importantly he is showing just how creative he is within the Bud Powell tradition and how distinctive his compositional gifts are. ![]()
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