Horace Silver - Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) Flac

Tracklist

1 Pencil Packin' Papa
2 I Got The Dancin' Blues
3 Soul Mates
4 I Need My Baby
5 My Mothers Waltz
6 Red Beans And Rice
7 Blues For Brother Blue
8 Let It All Hang Out
9 Senor Blues
10 Viva Amour

personnel :

Horace Silver - piano
Oscar Brashear, Ron Stout, Jeff Bernell - trumpet, flugelhorn
George Bohanon - trombone
Maurice Spears - bass trombone
Suzette Moriarty - french horn
Red Holloway, James Moody, Eddie Harris, Rickey Woodard - tenor saxophone
Bob Maize - bass
Carl Burnett - drums
O.C. Smith - vocals

This CD's main assets are the many new compositions by Horace Silver and his colorful arrangements for the six-piece brass section. Although not enough is heard from the brass players on an individual basis (the greatly underrated trumpeter Oscar Brashear and trombonist George Bohanon get just one solo apiece), this is partly alleviated by the guest tenors. Red Holloway solos on seven songs while James Moody, Eddie Harris and Rickey Woodard each pop up twice. In addition, O.C. Smith does a fine job on his four vocals although Silver's abilities as a lyricist are still open to question. However his piano solos are typically exciting and inventive and Silver has obviously lost none of his enthusiasm even after four decades of music making.~Scott Yanow