Horace Silver [The Tokyo Blues 1962] - Too Much Sake | Текст песни

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“Following a series of concert dates in Tokyo late
in 1961 with his quintet, Horace Silver returned
to the U.S. with his head full of the Japanese
melodies he had heard during his visit, and
using those as a springboard, he wrote four new
pieces, which he then recorded at sessions held
on July 13 and 14, 1962, along with a version of
Ronnell Bright’s little known ballad "Cherry
Blossom." One would naturally assume the
resulting LP would have a Japanese feel, but that
really is not the case. Using Latin rhythms and
the blues as a base, Silver’s Tokyo-influenced
compositions fit right in with the subtle cross-
cultural but very American hard bop he”d been
doing all along. Using his usual quintet (Blue
Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor sax,
Gene Taylor on bass) with drummer Joe Harris
(he is listed as John Harris, Jr. for this set) filling
in for an ailing Roy Brooks), Silver’s
compositions have a light, airy feel, with plenty
of space, and no one used that space better at
these sessions than Cook, whose tenor sax lines
are simply wonderful, adding a sturdy, reliable
brightness. The centerpieces are the two straight
blues, "Sayonara Blues" and "The Tokyo Blues,"
both of which have a delightfully natural flow,
and the building, patient take on Bright’s
"Cherry Blossom," which Silver takes pains to
make sure sounds like a ballad and not a barely
restrained minor-key romp. The bottom line is
that The Tokyo Blues emerges as a fairly typical
Silver set from the era and not as a grandiose
fusion experiment welding hard bop to Japanese
melodies. That might have been interesting,
certainly, but Silver obviously assimilated things
down to a deeper level before he wrote these
pieces, and they feel like a natural extension of
his work rather than an experimental detour.”
Personnel:
Blue Mitchell - trumpet
Junior Cook - tenor sax
Horace Silver - piano
Gene Taylor - bass
John Harris, Jr. - drums
Tracklist:
1. Too Much Sake - 06:47
2. Sayonara Blues - 12:14
3. The Tokyo Blues - 07:40
4. Cherry Blossom - 06:11
5. Ah! So - 07:07
Total time: 40:01
All compositions by Horace Silver, except
"Cherry Blossom"- by Ronnell Bright
Recorded on July 13 (#2 & 3) and 14 (#1, 4, 5)
1962