Horace Silver - Total Response

Digitally remastered edition of this 1971 album from the Jazz great. Horace Silver is a name that is synonymous with Blue Note, the Jazz Messengers and Hard Bop. Silver's debut as leader for the iconic label commenced in 1955 with 'Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers' and finished in 1979 with the vocal Silver N Strings Plays the Music of the Spheres. He contributed some of Hard Bop finest compositions during his time at the label and was one of Jazz's most prolific composers. Songs like 'Song for My Father', 'Filthy McNasty', 'Doodlin', 'Sister Sadie' 'Tokyo Blues', and 'Senor Blues' are archetypal Silver/ Hard Bop tunes. They helped define an era. Silver's piano playing had a distinctive upbeat approach and his rhythms were designed with dancing feet in mind. The popularity of Silver's music endures to this day in part to this inherent optimism. Silver makes Jazz sound fun. Soul Brother.