Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu

Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu is an album by the Horace Silver Trio featuring drummer Art Blakey and conga player Sabu, recorded on October 9 & 20, 1952 and November 23, 1953 respectively and released on Blue Note in 1956.^[3]

Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu
Compilation album by Horace Silver
Released	October 1956
Recorded	October 9 and 20, 1952 and November 23, 1953
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC
Genre	Jazz, hard bop
Length	40:26
Label	Blue Note BLP 1520
Producer	Alfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology
New Faces New Sounds (1952) Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey–Sabu (1956) Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (1955)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	[1]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide	[2]

Introducing the Horace Silver Trio
Studio album by Horace Silver
Released	1952
Recorded	October 9 and 20, 1952
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC
Label	Blue Note BLP 5018

Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2
Compilation album by Horace Silver Trio & Art Blakey
Released	1953
Recorded	November 23, 1953
Studio	WOR Studios, NYC
Label	Blue Note BLP 5034

Background

The sessions were previously issued on two 10"s, Introducing the Horace Silver Trio (1952) and Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 (1953), respectively.^[4] While the original 12" LP omitted four tracks from these earlier 10" LPs, the CD reissue includes all 16 tracks from the original sessions.^[5][6]

Track listing

Original release

All tracks are written by Horace Silver except where noted.

Side 1

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Safari"			October 9, 1952	2:47
2.	"Ecaroh"			October 20, 1952	3:10
3.	"Prelude to a Kiss"	Irving Gordon, Irving Mills	Duke Ellington	October 20, 1952	2:47
4.	"Message from Kenya"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	2:47
5.	"Horoscope"			October 9, 1952	3:47
6.	"Yeah"			October 20, 1952	2:45

Side 2

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Date recorded	Length
1.	"How About You?"	Ralph Freed	Burton Lane	November 23, 1953	3:40
2.	"I Remember You"	Johnny Mercer	Victor Schertzinger	November 23, 1953	3:52
3.	"Opus de Funk"			November 23, 1953	3:26
4.	"Nothing but the Soul"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	4:07
5.	"Silverware"			November 23, 1953	2:34
6.	"Day In, Day Out"	Johnny Mercer	Rube Bloom	November 23, 1953	3:00

CD reissue

All tracks are written by Horace Silver except where noted.

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Horace-Scope"			October 9, 1952	3:47
2.	"Safari"			October 9, 1952	2:47
3.	"Thou Swell"	Lorenz Hart	Richard Rodgers	October 9, 1952	2:52
4.	"Quicksilver"			October 20, 1952	3:00
5.	"Ecaroh"			October 20, 1952	3:10
6.	"Yeah"			October 20, 1952	2:45
7.	"Knowledge Box"			October 20, 1952	2:46
8.	"Prelude to a Kiss"	Irving Gordon, Irving Mills	Duke Ellington	October 20, 1952	2:47
9.	"I Remember You"	Johnny Mercer	Victor Schertzinger	November 23, 1953	3:52
10.	"Opus de Funk"			November 23, 1953	3:26
11.	"Day In, Day Out"	Johnny Mercer	Rube Bloom	November 23, 1953	3:00
12.	"Silverware"			November 23, 1953	2:34
13.	"How About You?"	Ralph Freed	Burton Lane	November 23, 1953	3:40
14.	"Buhaina"			November 23, 1953	3:04
15.	"Message from Kenya"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	4:30
16.	"Nothing but the Soul"		Art Blakey	November 23, 1953	4:07
Total length:					50:08

Introducing the Horace Silver Trio – BLP 5018

Side 1

No.	Title	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Safari"	October 9, 1952
2.	"Ecaroh"	October 20, 1952
3.	"Prelude to a Kiss"	October 20, 1952
4.	"Thou Swell"	October 9, 1952

Side 2

No.	Title	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Quicksilver"	October 20, 1952
2.	"Horoscope"	October 9, 1952
3.	"Yeah"	October 20, 1952
4.	"Knowledge Box"	October 20, 1952

Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey, Vol. 2 – BLP 5034

Side 1

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"How About You"	Lane Freed	November 23, 1953
2.	"I Remember You"	Mercer Schertzinger	November 23, 1953
3.	"Silverware"	Silver	November 23, 1953
4.	"Message from Kenya"	Blakey	November 23, 1953

Side 2

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Date recorded	Length
1.	"Opus de Funk"	Silver	November 23, 1953
2.	"Nothing but the Soul"	Blakey	November 23, 1953
3.	"Buhaina"	Silver	November 23, 1953
4.	"Day In, Day Out"	Mercer Bloom	November 23, 1953

Personnel

Horace Silver Trio

October 9, 1952

• Horace Silver – piano
• Gene Ramey – bass
• Art Blakey – drums

October 20, 1952

• Horace Silver – piano
• Curley Russell – bass
• Art Blakey – drums

November 23, 1953

• Horace Silver – piano (except "Message from Kenya", "Nothing but the Soul")
• Percy Heath – bass (except "Message from Kenya", "Nothing but the Soul")
• Art Blakey – drums
• Sabu – conga ("Message from Kenya")

Technical personnel

• Alfred Lion – production
• Reid Miles, John Hermansader (BLP 5018), Jerome Kuhl (BLP 5034) – design
• Francis Wolff – photography
• Rudy Van Gelder – remastering
• Leonard Feather – liner notes