Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet

Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet
Studio album by
the Horace Silver Quintet
ReleasedMid-April 1959[1]
RecordedJanuary 31, 1959
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreHard bop
Length42:52
LabelBlue Note
BLP 4008
ProducerAlfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology
Further Explorations
(1958) 		Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet
(1959) 		Blowin' the Blues Away
(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[3]

Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver recorded on January 31, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year. The quintet features horn section Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook and rhythm section Gene Taylor and Louis Hayes.[4]

Reception

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states, "Finger Poppin' was the first album Horace Silver recorded with the most celebrated version of his quintet... It's also one of Silver's all-time classics, perfectly blending the pianist's advanced, groundbreaking hard bop style with the winning, gregarious personality conveyed in his eight original tunes. Silver always kept his harmonically sophisticated music firmly grounded in the emotional directness and effortless swing of the blues, and Finger Poppin' is one of the greatest peaks of that approach. A big part of the reason is the chemistry between the group – it's electrifying and tightly knit, with a palpable sense of discovery and excitement at how well the music is turning out... Finger Poppin' is everything small-group hard bop should be, and it's a terrific example of what made the Blue Note label's mainstream sound so infectious."[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Horace Silver

Side 1

  1. "Finger Poppin'" – 4:47
  2. "Juicy Lucy" – 5:46
  3. "Swingin' the Samba" – 5:17
  4. "Sweet Stuff" – 5:32

Side 2

  1. "Cookin' at the Continental" – 4:54
  2. "Come on Home" – 5:30
  3. "You Happened My Way" – 5:29
  4. "Mellow D" – 5:37

Personnel

The Horace Silver Quintet

Technical personnel

References

  1. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Jazz Albums", Billboard, April 27, 1959.
  2. ^ a b Huey, Steve, AllMusic Review. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
  3. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. pp. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  4. ^ Horace Silver discography. Retrieved 17 November 2009.
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