12 Classic Albums 1953-1962

Compilation by Horace Silver

Released 2014

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CD 1: Disc One
1
Safari
2:53
2
Ecaroh
3:13
3
Prelude to a Kiss
2:52
4
Thou Swell
2:54
5
Quicksilver
3:02
6
Horoscope
3:51
7
Yeah
2:53
8
Knowledge Box
2:49
9
Room 608
5:20
10
Creepin’ In
7:24
11
Stop Time
4:05
12
To Whom It May Concern
5:08
13
Hippy
5:22
14
The Preacher
4:16
15
Hankerin’
5:16
16
Doodlin’
6:46
CD 2: Disc Two
1
Day in Day Out
3:01
2
How About You
3:45
3
I Remember You
3:56
4
Silverware
2:38
5
Message From Kenya
4:35
6
Opus de Funk
3:27
7
Nothing but the Soul
4:09
8
Buhaina
3:06
9
Silver’s Blue
7:47
10
To Beat or Not to Beat
4:05
11
How Long Has This Been Going On?
4:20
12
I’ll Know
7:27
13
Shoutin’ Out
6:36
14
Hank’s Tune
5:28
15
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
9:00
CD 3: Disc Three
1
No Smokin’
5:34
2
The Back Beat
6:23
3
Soulville
6:16
4
Home Cookin’
6:28
5
Metamorphosis
7:18
6
My One and Only Love
6:58
7
Cool Eyes
5:54
8
Shirl
4:16
9
Camouflage
4:25
10
Enchantment
6:22
11
Señor Blues
7:01
12
Virgo
5:48
13
For Heaven’s Sake
5:10
CD 4: Disc Four
1
The Outlaw
6:07
2
Melancholy Mood
6:36
3
Pyramid
6:38
4
Moon Rays
10:56
5
Safari
5:11
6
Blowin’ the Blues Away
4:44
7
The St. Vitus Dance
4:09
8
Break City
4:57
9
Peace
6:02
10
Sister Sadie
6:19
11
The Baghdad Blues
4:53
12
Melancholy Mood
7:08
13
How Did It Happen
4:45
CD 5: Disc Five
1
Finger Poppin’
4:49
2
Juicy Lucy
5:46
3
Swingin’ the Samba
5:18
4
Sweet Stuff
5:33
5
Cookin’ at the Continental
4:54
6
Come on Home
5:31
7
You Happened My Way
5:29
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8
Mellow D
5:38
9
Strollin’
4:59
10
Where You At
5:37
11
Without You
4:50
12
Horace-Scope
4:43
13
Yeah!
6:28
14
Me and My Baby
5:58
15
Nica’s Dream
6:50
CD 6: Disc Six
1
Filthy McNasty
11:02
2
Doin’ the Thing
11:16
3
Kiss Me Right
9:18
4
The Gringo
10:54
5
The Theme
1:08
6
Too Much Sake
6:43
7
Sayonara Blues
12:13
8
The Tokyo Blues
7:43
9
Ah So
7:12

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Release credits

Alfred Lion
producer [2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8, 1.1-8, 5.1-5, 5.7-9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 6.1-3, 6.6-9, 4.1-4, 4.6, 4.9, 4.13]
Art Blakey
drums (drum set) [1.1-16, 2.1-8]
Art Farmer
trumpet [4.1, 4.3-4, 3.1-4]
Art Taylor
drums (drum set) [9, 12, 14-15]
Blue Mitchell
trumpet [5.1-3, 5.5, 5.8-9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 6.1-3, 6.6-9, 4.6, 4.8-11, 4.13]
Clifford Jordan
tenor saxophone [1, 3-4]
Curley Russell
bass [3, 5, 8], double bass [2]
Donald Byrd
trumpet [3.7-13, 2.9, 2.12, 2.14-15]
Doug Hawkins
engineer [2.1-8, 1.1-8]
Doug Watkins
bass [3.7-13, 2.9-10, 2.12-14], double bass [1.9-16, 2.15]
Gene Ramey
bass [5, 7], double bass [4, 6]
Gene Taylor
bass [1-2, 6-9], double bass [5.1-5, 5.7-9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 4.6-13, 6.3]
Hank Mobley
tenor saxophone [1.9-16, 3.1-4, 3.7-13, 2.9-10, 2.12-15]
Horace Silver
piano [3.1-4, 3.7-13, 5.1-5, 5.7-9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 2.1-4, 2.6, 2.8-10, 2.12-15, 6.1-3, 6.6-9, 1.1-16, 4.1-4, 4.6-13]
Joe Gordon
trumpet [10, 13]
John Harris, Jr.
membranophone [6-9]
Junior Cook
tenor saxophone [4.6, 4.8-11, 4.13, 5.1-3, 5.5, 5.8-9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 6.1-3, 6.6-9]
Kenny Clarke
drums (drum set) [10, 13]
Kenny Dorham
trumpet [9-16]
Louis Hayes
drums (drum set) [3.1-4, 3.7-13, 5.1-5, 5.7-8, 4.1-4, 4.6-13]
Louis “Sabu” Martinez
congas [5], vocal [5]
Percy Heath
bass [1-4, 6], double bass [8]
Roy Brooks
drums (drum set) [5.9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 6.1-3]
Rudy van Gelder
recording [6.6-9, 5.1-5, 5.7-9, 5.12, 5.14-15, 4.1-4, 4.6, 4.9, 3.7-13]
Teddy Kotick
bass [1-4], double bass [1-4]
The Horace Silver Quintet
performer [6, 9]

Issues

1
12 Classic Albums 1953-1962
6x CD
2014