HORACE SILVER QUINTET AND TRIO - BLOWIN THE BLUES AWAY VINYL OUR GOLDEN FRIEND From the early albums

From the early albums

The set opens with a new version of Cruz's cheerful 1975 hit Cucala

From the first moments when Dexter Gordon sails into the opening song full of brightness and confidence

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THOSE PRECIOUS MEMORIES

HORACE SILVER QUINTET AND TRIO - BLOWIN THE BLUES AWAY VINYL OUR GOLDEN FRIEND From the early albumsBlowin' The Blues Away Blowin' the Blues Away is one of Horace Silver's all time Blue Note classics, only upping the ante established on Finger Poppin' for tightly constructed, joyfully infectious hard bop. This album marks the peak of Silver's classic quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes; it's also one of the pianist's strongest sets of original compositions, eclipsed only