The Horace Silver Quintet – Jungle Juice.

My Jazz pick for tonight: Horace Silver Quintet – Jungle Juice. Classic Hard Bop from 1968.

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You can clearly hear the influence of Latin rhythms and Silver’s Cape Verdean roots on this recording.  The pace and feel of the track is quite distinct from other Horace Silver pieces – a staccato feel, with lots of use of fourths and ‘sus’ chords.  The horns flow nicely over the top, building an interplay of rhythm between Silver’s stabbing piano chords and the brass of Turrentine, Maupin and Tolliver.  A young Billy Cobham does the business on the drums; now famous as one of the Jazz drummers who raised the bar through his precise and powerful style.