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January 31, 2008 · 0 comments

Song of the Day

I read in the paper the other day that the value of Silver is on the rise. The folks at Blue Note must have taken notice, and dug into their vaults for some hidden Silver artifacts . . . Voilà, they came up with a dynamic unreleased tape of a 1958 concert at Newport.

Okay, you want to gripe that Blue Note kept a great Horace Silver session unreleased for a half century. But that wouldn't be fair. In point of fact, the label only waited 49 years, 6 months and 28 days before letting us hear this sterling Silver Sunday set saved from the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. But we should consider ourselves lucky to have it at all.

Click here for the rest of the review of "Señor Blues," today's Song of the Day at jazz.com. Below are links to reviews of the other tracks selected as Song of the Day during the past month.

Songs of the Day: January 2008

Gonzalo Rubalcaba: Peace
Eliane Elias: Waltz for Debby
Frank Macchia: Down in the Valley
Marc Copland: River's Run
Josh Nelson & Sara Gazarek: Leaving Here
Ben Allison: Little Things Run the World
Sathima Bea Benjamin: Solitude
Joachim Kühn & Majid Bekkas: Youmala
Robert Glasper: Of Dreams to Come
Fred Hersch: Misterioso
Michael Blake: Ghostlines
Michael Wollny: Initiation
Carla Bley: Ad Infinitum
Ron Carter: My Funny Valentine
Cyrus Chestnut: Don't Be Cruel
Frank Kimbrough: It Should've Happened a Long Time Ago
Maria Schneider: Cerulean Skies
Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau: Ahmid-6
Keith Jarrett: Oleo
Eldar: Place St. Henri
James Moody & Nnenna Freelon: Just Squeeze Me
Bruce Hornsby: Questions and Answers
John Scofield: Shoe Dog

This blog entry posted by Ted Gioia

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