Horace Silver Quintet Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island - 1960 (audio only)
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 Published On Jan 18, 2023

Horace Silver Quintet Live at the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island, July 2nd, 1960.
-Setlist:
01. Senor Blues
02. Band Introduction
03. Blowin' the Blues Away
04. Song Introduction
05. Sister Sadie
06. Song Introduction
07. Me and My Baby
-Lineup:
Horace Silver -- piano
Blue Mitchell -- trumpet
Junior Cook -- tenor sax
Gene Taylor -- bass
Roy Brooks -- drums

A perennial favorite over the years at the Newport Jazz Festival, pianist Horace Silver appeared at George Wein's very first bash in 1954 with the Modern Jazz Quartet, subbing for John Lewis. He later brought his own working quintet to Newport, scoring triumphs in 1957, 1958 and 1959. For his appearance at the 1960 summer bash in Rhode Island, Silver brought in a quintet consisting of Junior Cook on tenor sax, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Gene Taylor on bass and Roy Brooks on drums. Together they delighted the Saturday evening Newport crowd with irrepressibly swinging hard bop fare from their current album at the time, Blowin' the Blues Away, which is now considered one of the classic Blue Note albums of the '60s. And as one can plainly hear, the chemistry of this tightly-knit group is simply electrifying.
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