Horace Silver | Blowin’ The Blues Away

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African American, Horace Silver, Jazz, Pianist

Horace Silver

Horace Silver | Blowin’ The Blues Away [Jazz/Blue Note/1959] Classic Bop

Recorded in 1959, this is an early chronicle of one of the finest bands of the hard-bop genre, pianist Silver’s classic quintet with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and drummer Louis Hayes. The group already epitomized Silver’s own virtues of precision and hard swing, with each soloist committed to direct and concise statements, at all times both emotionally and musically focused. There’s effective contrast, too, between Mitchell’s subtle turn of phrase and Cook’s raw intensity, each filling in Silver’s vision of a music that combined the complexity of bop and the immediacy of blues and gospel.

This session contains the original recordings of two Silver standards, the serene “Peace” and the joyously funky “Sister Sadie,” but the collective impact of the band is just as enduring. The group was so musically close-knit that when Silver disbanded five years later, the rest continued as the Blue Mitchell Quintet, with a young Chick Corea on piano. ~ Source: Amazon.com/Stuart Broomer

Flag this message Visual Artist Bernard Stanley Hoyes Heads to China

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African American, Art

HOYES TO CREATE HIS FIRST MAJOR PUBLIC ART COMMISSION IN GRANITE
WITH MASTER CHINESE STONEMASONS

Bernard S. Hoyes

Los Angeles, CA – Jamaican born artist and master visionary, Bernard Stanley Hoyes www.BernardHoyes.com
is world renowned for his powerful imagery.  His potent and color-filled canvases are internationally recognized for searing the spirit with overwhelm.  A contemporary painter who works from an intuitive and spiritual space, Hoyes is readying to embark on a career defining journey to Fuzhou City in the Fujian Province of China in February.  Once there, Hoyes will work to create his first granite rock sculpture.  Not just any ordinary rock sculpture either, as he has been privately commissioned to design a 6 foot, 3 ton blue fin tuna!

The journey will be magical in more ways than one. The three-dimensional sculpting process is not new to this traditional painter. As a young artist, his first discipline was carving when he entered art school, but he changed his major to painting. After establishing a successful career as a painter for the past 30 years, his artistic growth has now bought him full circle. Recently retooling his studio to work with different sculptural mediums, his recent progress with stone has garnered him this new commission. In China, he will be working with and learning from time-honored Chinese stonemasons whose work habits date back centuries.