The Horace Silver Quintet ”You Gotta Take A Little Love”

The Horace Silver Quintet

”You Gotta Take A Little Love”
( LP Blue Note Records, 1969 )
Catalog # BST 84309

Tracklisting:
01 You Gotta Take A Little Love (5:21)
02 The Risin’ Sun (4:34)
03 It’s Time (6:38)
04 Lovely’s Daughter (4:12)
05 Down And Out (4:27)
06 The Belly Dance (7:22)
07 Brain Wave (6:14)

Personnel & Notes:
Randy Brecker (tp, flh -1,2)
Bennie Maupin (ts, fl)
Horace Silver (p)
John Williams (b)
Billy Cobham (d)
Recorded at Rudy Van Gelder Studio,
Englewood Cliffs, NJ, January 10, 1969,
and January 17, 1969

Review:
One of the final Horace Silver Quintet Blue Note albums, this somewhat forgotten LP, dedicated to “the Brotherhood of Men,” is an instrumental set that introduced six new compositions by the pianist/leader (none of which caught on as standards) along with Bennie Maupin’s “Lovely’s Daughter.” Maupin (on tenor and flute), trumpeter Randy Brecker, bassist John Williams, and drummer Billy Cobham comprise Silver’s excellent late-’60s hard bop group. [In 2007 Blue Note reissued You Gotta Take a Little Love in a remastered Rudy Van Gelder edition.]
By Scott Yanow (AMG)

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