Blue Note will release Silver in Seattle: Live at The Penthouse on 24 October – it’s a “lost” 1965 recording from jazz great Horace Silver.
Captured over two August nights at Seattle’s Penthouse club, the quintet – Silver, Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Teddy Smith and Roger Humphries – tear through ‘Song for My Father,’ ‘The Cape Verdean Blues’ and more with fiery hard bop energy.
Recorded by KING-FM’s Jim Wilke and mastered by Matthew Lutthans, these tapes resurface 60 years later, complete with rare photos and fresh interviews. Blue Note has already teased the album streaming a blistering live take on ‘No Smokin.’’
Producer Zev Feldman, never knowingly under enthusiastic to be fair, calls it “absolutely astounding.” But dial the hype down and for jazz fans it’s unarguably history – alive and swinging.
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