Blowin' the Blues Away

1959 studio album by the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio
Blowin' the Blues Away
Studio album by
the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio
ReleasedEarly November 1959[1]
Recorded
  • August 29–30, 1959
  • September 13, 1959
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length42:54
LabelBlue Note
BLP 4017
ProducerAlfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology
Finger Poppin'
(1959) 		Blowin' the Blues Away
(1959) 		Horace-Scope
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
DownBeat[5]

Blowin' the Blues Away is an album by the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio, recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 29–30 and September 13, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.[6] The quintet features horn section Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook and rhythm section Eugene Taylor and Louis Hayes.[7]

Reception

In a contemporary review, Ralph J. Gleason called Blowin' the Blue Away a "lovely album" full of "fire and brimstone.... There is an esprit de combo here which is great to find.... We’re going to be playing this one for a long time, I suspect."[5]

The ninth edition of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings places the album among its suggested "Core Collection" of essential recordings, saying that it exemplifies Silver's "virtues as pianist, composer and leader".[3]

The AllMusic review by Steve Huey states, "Blowin' the Blues Away is one of Horace Silver's all-time Blue Note classics... one of Silver's finest albums, and it's virtually impossible to dislike."[8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Horace Silver, except as noted.

Side 1
No.TitleDate recordedLength
1."Blowin' the Blues Away"August 29, 19594:44
2."The St. Vitus Dance"September 13, 19594:09
3."Break City"August 30, 19594:57
4."Peace"August 30, 19596:02
Side 2
No.TitleDate recordedLength
1."Sister Sadie"August 30, 19596:19
2."The Baghdad Blues"August 29, 19594:52
3."Melancholy Mood"September 13, 19597:10
1999 reissue bonus track
No.TitleWriter(s)Date recordedLength
8."How Did It Happen"Don NeweyAugust 30, 19594:41

Personnel

August 29–30, 1959

The Horace Silver Quintet

September 13, 1959

The Horace Silver Trio

  • Horace Silver – piano
  • Eugene Taylor – bass
  • Louis Hayes – drums

Technical personnel


References

  1. ^ Billboard Nov 23, 1959
  2. ^ Allmusic Review
  3. ^ a b Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1298. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ a b Gleason, Ralph J. (31 March 1960). "Review of Blowing the Blues Away" (PDF). DownBeat. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ^ Blowin' the Blues Away. Blue Note 7243 4 95342 2, 1999, back cover notes.
  7. ^ Horace Silver discography. Retrieved November 17, 2009.
  8. ^ Huey, S. Allmusic Review. Retrieved November 16, 2009.
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