Horace Silver - Won't you open up your senses

[multigrooves]

Transcendental music. Horace and Andy Bey is a killer combo. Love.

[rj2046]

MissMontara - I the JAZZ.FM.91 I refer to is in Canada. I listen via internet. Thanks for commenting and bringing me back to this song again on this cold snowy day in CT. Coincidence, - Montara is the name of the last song on the Stephon Harris album "Evolution". - A very artistic and creative Vibes player. cheers!

[MissMontara]

@rj2046 oh! I actually work at 91.9 FM which is a jazz station in Atlanta. And I know that Stefon Harris album very well. I get my name from the Bobby Hutcherson album and song "Montara" which I use as my bed music (the music I talk under when I'm on the air) I love the song and my listeners seem to ask me to play it in full ALL the time!

Cheers to you!

[Occhinuovi]

I need the lyrics to sing it with my band. Is someone so kind to help me writing it in a private message? Pleeeeeease =')

[rj2046]

From a JAZZFM91 DJ, "He wrote his own lyrics so that he didn'r have to share royalties", i.e, made more money. This is a favorite daily listen of mine. I did a doubletake when i heard it piped in over the MUZAK in our local mall. Kudos to that music selector

[pluschein]

@rj2046 thanks for the info!!

[MissMontara]

@rj2046 -when you say JAZZFM91-do you mean the station in Atlanta?

[rj2046]

Horace wrote his own lyrics

[pluschein]

do you know who has written the lyrics for the song??

[maxwellgrody]

Portentious stuff is more like it. Horace Silver is a visionary philosopher.

[BuckshotLaFunke]

Pretentious stuff.

[postatility]

@BuckshotLaFunke Sorry you feel that way,mate. When I first bought this album on vinyl many years ago,I paid much more attention to the music than the lyrics,and I was generally of a more cynical bent. But having listened to these sides again(the three volumes of "The United States of Mind")I find them to contain a tremendous amount of wisdom,and simple,practical,positive advice.The best thing about them is that they do not endorse any particular Faith,other than that of the human mind&spirit

[rj2046]

Horace lived a very healthy lifestyle and strived to inspire his fans to clean up also in the drug rampant 70's. Consequently spiritualizing as through this piece was an important part of the method.

[tigerjussuf]

grateful thanks, hasseo4908, for your informative response!..

[hasseo4908]

From the 1970 album "Total Response"

United states of mind/Phase 2

Andy Bey - Vocals

Horace Silver - Piano (Electric)

Cecil Bridgewater - Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Bob Cranshaw - Bass (Electric), Guitar (Electric

Richie Resnicoff - Guitar

Mickey Roker - Drums

Harold Vick - Sax (Tenor)

[tigerjussuf]

absolute intriquing!...cant keep my fingers of it.who is the singer?

[hasseo4908]

Andy Bey