Cool Eyes Silver Horace Quintet 1958

[caponsacchi]

This became a theme. It's on "6 Pieces of Silver." Do yourself a favor and give away "song for my Father." It's good it supported Horace, but it's the weakest 2-chord tune he ever wrote.

[jazzjanne1]

Sounds good!

[kevinherbert]

The crowd reaction is gr8

[kevinherbert]

How absolutely cooool are rhis band?????.....helllooooooooooo­oo....

[djkcel]

I hope Horace is doing well. He has Alzheimer's now, and it's very sad to think that he doesn't remember any of this groundbreaking music that he made.

[kevinherbert]

Thanx so much 4 this......

[TheLiesette]

all of these white people are thinking "DAMN!"

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[TheLiesette]

all of these white people are thinking "DAMN!

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[kevinherbert]

totally flexible.......across everything.....

[edgarbm95]

wannabe dizzy gillespie. weak puffing cheeks lol

[sclogse1]

@edgarbm95

I'm really tempted to smear you all over this youtube page...but..I won't. One of the tricks to cheek puffing is that it aids in circular breathing, of which this guy is a master. Your slur against this guy is pretty facile, and simply wouldn't hold up in any person to person, unless you're with another being from your closet.

[edgarbm95]

@sclogse1 wow thanks for the lesson. I learned a lot :D but i was just kidding. lol

[docjhp]

One of the treats in this clip is to hear the great Blue Mitchell,

a native of Miami.

[MrRoeilevy]

"When one looks at this audience there is very little that would inspire any musician and maybe that is why the band had their backs towards that audience. "

:) ill second that

[kingpleasure]

Horace Silver and his groups will always be among the greatest figures of jazz then, now or in the future. Horace wrote incredible compositions and played the tastiest most inventive lines of any jazz man on any instrument. Hipper than hip, funkier than funky, Horace was what Hardbop was all about. I never get tired of listening to this number, and seeing it played live is just great. Thanks so much for posting it.

[theHellzapoppin]

merci jazzbobop pour ce grand moment de bonheur :D

[TheRealSankukai]

Listening to Horace's complex re harmonizations during his solo, I just can't understant who can say his music was easy to listen... yeah, it might sound easy, but maestry is about making appear easy something that's actually really complex.

[Sandra57206]

Check out the Genius at work 4:17+, 4:40+ Those shots right there show the man at his best. God gave us the best in music with Horace. His jazz movements are just about as smooooth as it comes. Does anyone out there know how to compare Horace's jazz style to anyone else during his era or later? This is not a put down because there are absolutely many indredible jazz artists out there throughout the years gone by, right up there with Horace. Would anyone care to name a few?

Thanks!

[BearWa11ace]

Love the rich bass and the straight ahead moves... beautiful

[PhillipNicewaner]

Blue Mitchell was the man. He is an incredibly under-appreciated and underrated trumpet player. Team him up with greats like Horace Silver and Junior Cook and only good things could arise. I just wish I hadn't been born thirty years too late to see this.

[SIRONEDRAGON]

Cool band

[lomalindajazz]

This audience looks bored. With all this great music being played, id expect heads to be bobbing and fingers tapping.

[kevinherbert]

@lomalindajazz : it's the smack....

[y2joylen]

Drugged out

[mjazz234]

Terrific clip. I can only agree about the difficulties of a fine cutting edge group, particularly a black one, playing to an audience which appears to be expecting a choir of angels. They got exactly that, but definitely in a somewhat different form. This really is a gem..many thanks.

[davedelic1]

y r they facing away for the audience?

[1madDogz]

The audience was all around them.

[Simbai69]

Horacio da Silva will always be tha hard-bop high top!

[ShtotaKoya]

what a hit song! i love it.

shame the name though, sounds like a ballad

[keybobrob]

Yo kats,...doesn't that riff Blue played around 1:34-37sound a little like Wee Dot?...freakin Horace is a Mad scientist!!..LOL..gotta luv em....I don't care how good they are most kats today (at NO fault of their own) will never have the flavor of this originators...today, kats sound "academic "...the times and the lives these original kats lived help SIGNIFICANTLY define the music. I don't care how much chops contemporary kats have....the flava of this original generation is lost forever live.

[keybobrob]

suffice to say they're will always be rare exceptions ...those that can transcend....but like i said its very RARE!

[keybobrob]

Sorry..."there will always..."

[franco6719]

In their time, this stuff was THE popular music though. I always wonder what if people of later generations grew up from the cradle hearing jazz and spent their lives surrounded by jazz on the television, on the radio, in the supermarkets, at their friend's houses, etc.., instead being surrounded by Miley Cirus or whatever the heck that you have now. It's like an anti-musical brainwashing nowadays.

[xatzidakis]

@franco6719 Man,i am stuck on this conclusion also..

[robertmbruno]

@franco6719 I don't believe that this was ever "THE" popular music as you wrote. Some people suggest that the European audience might have been more receptive but the photos of this audience is almost as if they got in free and are a television audience ( which they well might have been). Jazz never hit the mainstream . The popular jazz record back then might have been "Kind of Blue" who's sales really didn't compare to popular singers of the late fifties.Jazz is still a cultivated taste.

[keybobrob]

Hahahaha....damn Horace has been making me laugh for years!!!!....You can never get tired of listening to him. Kat was Brilliant.....His energy was ridiculous!...that left hand kills me!!

[dasglasperlenspiel10]

Wonderful! Europeans often respected African-American jazz more than did our audiences (to our shame). This wonderful period (just before rock 'n roll destroyed the audience altogether) shows a wonderful creative possibility for American music, truncated due to electronics and hippiedom. As a drummer, I appreciate the extraordinarily clean and dynamically controlled solo by Louis Hayes. JoJo Mayer is getting credit today for teaching that 1 hand around the drums bit. But JoJo's nice too

[ShredRedemption]

I am sorry, but I think what you said about rock is incorrect. Having grown up listening to 70's rock (15 years old as of now) I must say that if anything it has taught me how to appreciate the finer points of music in general, making my musical horizon expand. Rock gave back to jazz. We have one more listener in the audience, or why else would I be here? No, the real problem lies in the jonas bros and such. That is taking the audience away.

[Daltonn0810]

exactly , im 18 and started listening to the prog rock of the 70's and now have broaden my musical taste to jazz

but the issue isn't with the Jonas brothers , its with the lack of creativity and a strong music scene. blame the corporations not the products(Jonas brothers)

[Daltonn0810]

well said , if it wasn't for prog rock i too would not be here

[MissionTrailTrad]

Jazzbobob should realize that actually the audience on this one is very hip...and people should still be dressing like that instead of displaying their body parts and tattoos.

Horace is really groovin' on this one--great video!

[gmonet46]

All this great music under our nose, but not in our eyes..meaning they rarely ever got the TV exposure in America, and while it may have been racial, I think it was more musical ignorance of the networks..hell even PBS does a poor job, using my jazz loving tax money too!

[PowerBomb900]

Anybody familiary with why many of the musicians are not facing the audience (the drummer especially)?

[gmonet46]

"In the round" as many studios were set up.

[mikimcal]

Thank YOU for posting this Jazzbobob! While I agree with Jazzanswer regarding the position of the audience, I certainly appreciate those great vibes and responses from the audience when I play live. Regardless, this quintet does their usual magic on this number, and yes, Mitchell's solo on this tune is one of the best! Yes, the changes on some of his tunes are hard (even after working on Wayne Shorter's tunes) but SO beautiful.

[soulgriot]

Any musician will tell you that all of Horace Silver's music is easy to listen to, but some of it is HARD TO PLAY!

[NHockerJazz]

This has to be one of my favorite Blue Mitchell solo's ever

[Jazzanswer]

I would say the opposite of what jazzbobob said about the audience.

If the musicians have their backs to the audience - it would make it difficult as hell for them to enjoy the performance.

My guess is that the television people positioned the musicians facing where they had placed the cameras - probably in the back of the stage so that they could photograph the audience as well as the musicians.

As usual, the technicians win out over consideration for the musicians or the audience.

[cartiergl]

awesome,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[BuckshotLaFunke]

Silver at his best - a construction engineer playing piano.

[rj2046]

A very well made video. The sound and vid are excellent, and the names flashed for the band is an added bonus. Horace is very dapper with always a humble and understated manner.

[strategy36]

THIS IS HARDBOP JAZZ STYLE.

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Cool stuff indeed here. Feel free to visit my bloggy, you'll find the link in my profile.

Bruno "Brew" Lite

[menilmontant]

damn your videos are good!

[Soulnik]

Dig it ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

[MattLeGroulx]

holy crud! what a find! thanks for this.

[thedrummist73]

wow