Horace Silver Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse 180g LP

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In August 1965, great jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver brought a cutting-edge line-up to The Penthouse in Seattle with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Teddy Smith on bass, and Roger Humphries on drums. A newly discovered recording of those performances gets its first-ever release with Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, featuring the band playing uninhibited renditions of Silver classics including "Song for My Father," "Cape Verdean Blues," and "The Kicker."

Pianist-composer and hard bop pioneer Silver fronts a powerhouse lineup that stretches to the max on this exhilarating live outing. Transferred from the original tapes of a 1965 radio broadcast, Silver in Seattle hits with a kind of raw, visceral ferocity that is difficult to duplicate in the studio.

Pianist Horace Silver leads his mid-'60s quintet through a combustible, hard swinging evening...Throughout the evening, Silver pushes the group, framing each player with his crisp, rhythmic chords and bell-tone piano melodies....a thrilling glimpse into one of the pianist's most vital periods.