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Cape Verdean Blues

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Right from the very first note this album can make winter in Antarctica feel like summer in the Caribean. Every musician on this recording is playing his instrument as a master of the art, but what counts most are the compositions and Horace's drive. Joe Henderson, although just a coming man on this recording, blows everybody away with his solo on the title track. Those bars alone are worth investing your money in this CD! I can drone on and on for hours about how splendid it all is, but you should just indulge. Buy! Enjoy! Thank me later for introducing you to this! I know you will...

Do I rate this CD based on the 5 stars they allow or for the 5 stars on the recording? I will get to the heart of what this CD is all about. Horace Silver, like his mentor Art Blakey, opened the door for so many jazz greats of the 50's and early 60's. Blue Mitchell, John Harris, Jr., Carmel Jones,Joe Henderson and Junior Cook are but a micron of what the infamous HS was all about. His stylings are never dominant like, say Oscar Peterson, and his soloists were allowed to really "cook." As a result when an established great like Miles Davis or in this case J.J. Johnson steps on board it isn't some kind of "sounds of the giants" but more like Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard's "Night of the Cookers" it begins to make your feet tap and your mind go all over the room. You do not hear Be Bop...you eat it. Up! Take and throw every song on this CD away, but one, and that one can survive alone for a lifetime. If you are Latino man, you'll find new blood in the title tune. I do not know if Palmieri or Puente recorded this one, but they should have. Get this, "Tokyo Blues" and "Song for My Father" and you can die fulfilled. This what Silver is still about today and folks he IS the last of the Be Boppers bar none.

i'm a recent fan to j.j. johnson, so i've been goin out explorin albums of his that prick my curiosity...i have two cds by him and they are excellent! this is no exception; this is some gratifying stuff here! real grown folk music! and now, on top of this, them damn muses of jazz have gotten me entangled into the works of horace silver!!! yes, i am a jazz addict and i freely admit it! :-P ...if you too are as addicted as i, then this can quell your hunger (for now).