Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey + Sabu [1953] | Full Album

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Tracks: 01 Safari | 0:00 02 Horoscope | 2:50 03 Thou Swell | 6:44 04 Quicksilver | 9:40 05 Ecaroh | 12:44 06 Yeah | 15:57 07 Knowlegde Box | 18:50 08 Prelude to a Kiss | 21:31 09 I remember you | 24:33 10 Opus de Funk | 28:25 11 Day in Day Out | 31:57 12 Silverware | 34:58 13 How about you | 37:37 14 Buhaina | 41:20 15 Message from Kenya | 44:31 16 Nothing but the Soul | 49:05 Message From Kenya teams Art with Sabu Martinez, the 24-year-old conga drum virtuoso who came here some nine years ago from Puerto Rico. He has been featured with Josephine Premice, played in Tito Rodriguez' mambo orchestra and was prominent in the last big band of Dizzy Gillespie, in which he took the role originally filled by the lated and great Chano Pozo. The story of Message From Kenya, Art tell us, was first told to him by Moses Mann, a Nigerian drummer who worked in this country with Pearl Primus. The evocation, voiced dramatically in a mixture of Spanish and Swahili, tells of a hunter whose cries celebrate the news that he has captured more game than any other hunter in the village, in order to convince the girl he loves of his prowess. The ritual comes vividly to life as Sabu and Blakey develop a study in rhythmic variety and dynamics with exciting crescendos and diminuendos. On the other drum number, Nothing But The Soul, Art is alone. Despite the temptation to use this opportunity by wandering off in a variety of pyrotechnical displays with all kinds of tempo and mood changes, Art has chosen to limit himself mainly to the development and maintenance of the beat, in a dazzling assortment of interpretations. While there is nothing in this performance calculated to amaze the drum schools, there is much that will intrigue the average listener in Art's demonstration of rhythmic patterns, in the dramatic suspension during a long roll, in the deterity with which he handles the sticks and snares. Art won the Down Beat critics poll in 1953 and the public has followed suit by acclaiming him no less enthusiastically. — LEONARD FEATHER Credits Safari, Horoscope: Horace Silver, piano; Gene Ramey, bass; Art Blakey, Drums. Recorded october 9th, 1952 Ecaroh, Yeah, Prelude to a Kiss: Horace Silver, piano; Percy Heath, bass; Art Blakey, Drums. Recorded Octumber 20th, 1952 How about you, I Remember You, Opus de Funk, Silverware, Day in Day Out: Horace Silver, piano; Percy Heath, bass; Art Blakey, Drums. Recorded November 23rd, 1953 Message from Kenya, Nothing but the Soul: Art Blakey, Drums; Sabu, conga drum. Recorded November 23rd, 1953 Producer -- Alfred Lion Recorded By, Remastered By -- Rudy Van Gelder Reissue Producer -- Michael Cuscuna