HORACE SILVER QUINTET AND TRIO - BLOWIN THE BLUES AWAY VINYL OUR GOLDEN FRIEND The set opens with a

The set opens with a new version of Cruz's cheerful 1975 hit Cucala

experimental folk and ambient tracks

From the early albums

and has been put together after the many crate-digging trips that both compilers have made on the streets of Havana and beyond in Cuba stretching over a 20-year period

From the first moments when Dexter Gordon sails into the opening song full of brightness and confidence

HORACE SILVER QUINTET AND TRIO - BLOWIN THE BLUES AWAY VINYL OUR GOLDEN FRIEND The set opens with aBlowin' The Blues Away Blowin' the Blues Away is one of Horace Silver's all time Blue Note classics, only upping the ante established on Finger Poppin' for tightly constructed, joyfully infectious hard bop. This album marks the peak of Silver's classic quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes; it's also one of the pianist's strongest sets of original compositions, eclipsed only