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At 27, Horace Silver was the artist with the longest contract in Blue Note history. The legendary pianist and composer recorded his first Blue Note session, “Horace Silver Trio”, in 1952 and his session for “Silver 'N Strings Play The Music Of The Spheres” was the very last recording before the label ceased operations in 1979. In between, Silver recorded some of the most popular albums in the Blue Note catalog, spanning bebop, hard bop, and soul jazz, and forged his own path through the fusion movement in the 1970s. With his 1956 album “6 Pieces Of Silver,” he scored a hit with a series of hard bop pieces, including one of his greatest compositions, “Señor Blues”. The unforgettable theme is one of five excellent Silver originals (plus the standard “For Heaven's Sake”), played by a first-rate quintet featuring Donald Byrd on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Doug Watkins on bass and Louis Hayes on drums. Other highlights include the hard-swinging opener “Cool Eyes”, the breathtaking ballad “Shirl”, the complex stop-start rhythm of “Camouflage” and the beguiling Latin beat of “Enchantment”.
As part of the extremely popular “Blue Note 85th Anniversary Reissue Series” Universal Music Japan presents the sonically impressive remastering of this jazz classic by the legendary Kevin Gray, who is also responsible for Blue Note US's analog reissues such as “Tone Poet” and “Classic Vinyl” – as a limited Japan only UHQCD with OBI stripe. The original recording sessions for “6 Pieces Of Silver” took place on November 10, 1956, and June 15, 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey.
1. Cool Eyes
2. Shirl
3. Camouflage
4. Enchantement
5. Señor Blues
6. Virgo
7. For Heaven's Sake