you see the music oozing out of these guys as they effortlessly and instantaneously shape the flow into logically nuanced 4 dimensional poetic structures.

Horace Silver - piano Blue Mitchell - trumpet Junior Cook - tenor saxophone Gene Taylor - bass Louis Hayes - drums

I grew up in the same town as him. One time in the late 90's he walked in our high school orchestra rehearsal. Our conductor introduced him with so much pride, but we had no idea who that "old man" was, and frankly weren't impressed. We were all into eminem at the time. Man, were we dumb!

I don't usually write comments... I discovered this video about 10 years ago or more....and since then, I've returned here hundreds of times, to watch it and listen to it as if it were the first time.... It's an absolute gem, talent, art, respect, "tempo", a wonderful clockwork machine that marks each beat to perfection, several geniuses together, creating "magic"! They always captivate me, surprise me, and leave me stunned, speechless.... They act inside, like a "medicine".... The immense and profound power of cosmic messengers! Thank you for sharing it and may it never disappear from this platform!

Senor Blues is the siren call of an aching heart. I can't stop thinking about how much I love this song. Video of the performance makes it even better.

They didn't HAVE to wear suits they WANTED to. That was the style back then. It also reflects a seriousness and respect for the music. -Austin

I saw him perform in Glasgow's Fruit Market, he was in his seventies, wearing a very sharp silk suit, which matched the music to perfection. One of the best concerts I ever attended.

Excellent!

Horace Silver represents the hard bop genre well, which I love. The slower tempo and less complex melodies allow for deeper emotions to be conveyed through the instrumentation.

Horace thank you for the wonderful music you left us all

Beautiful! Young, very alive, strong and brilliant, all of them.

The jazz world has lost its master today. RIP Horace Silver.

RIP HORACE SILVER..LOVE YOU ALWAYS!

RIP you wonderful person!

These Cats were smoooth with it!

Mr. Horace Silver is the master of the blues chords (with Mr. Theolonius Monk)

what a composition!

caught this on WJRC tonight in Detroit...wanted to hear it again...the best...what a time for beautiful jazz....

Happy Birthday Blue!

One the finest Jazz songs I've ever heard.

I can watch this over and over. Just fantastic!

I could listen to Horace play all day 😍❤️

R.I.P. to my favorite jazz musician of all time, Horace Silver (2 September 1928 - 18 June 2014)

Wow! How did I miss these guys?❤️

Horace Silver is heads above the madding crowd with his focus and intensity and so damn sweet it blows my mind back to yesterday when he was cooking with Junior and Blue; there is a joy that "smack's of a blues that soars and heads right up into the rare and toxic upbeat ether of making it happen...even on a blues. You have to have been there to know that they are playing inside of a flow of burning wonder.

beautiful music Horace Silver.Thanks

Man that is some laid back music!

Even with the low quality video, you can see the sweat dripping off his nose. Pure passion. RIP

This is such a wonderful song. I keep listening to it over and over.

Wow...Sensual and soulfully brilliant

I have listened to Horace Silver since the 1960s🥂

MET Mr Silver while working at All State record we carried Blue Note record all ways a gentleman! I THANK him for the memories !

Truly wonderful playing. Sensitive, sophisticated full of humanity. One of my all time favourite performances

amazing!!!!

Horace at his best

Can't even say anything.. Just amazing!!!

Horace is an absolute God

I met Horace in a record shop in Hermosa Beach in the early 1980's. Started to check out his music and it took me to so many other great artists of his genre. What a prince of a man, he was so sharp and yet so humble. I feel honored to have known him, even though briefly, he really had an everlasting influence on my music. The real musicians know how to act, because their music speaks for itself. He really looked magnificent for an older man, never out of style with that beret.

Rest in Peace Mr. Horace Silver🕊️ Great musicians💪🏾🇨🇻

One of my fave cuts. Would that jazz still had that edge in the music biz. Blue Mitchell, a heavyweight who left too soon.

One of the Greats. Will be missed. :-(

Horace Silver a man born on the Cape Verde Islands, excellent pianist

RIP Horace... a true master.

OMG! ......the music was good then. I am so glad to have been around then and playing and listening and talking to all the guys ....the music scene was magical! You could walk into a half dozen spots on Broadway, NYC and hear music like this being performed night...after night....after night. I sure as hell miss it!!!

Nice to see audiences quiet and listening rather that trying to record this on their phones or jumping around.

I could listen to this composition over and over again non stop. I sometimes do. Horacio Silva, as tuas composicoes sao hipnoticas!

Silver was a stone. cold. genius.

I've been infected with The Horace Effect for decades now since he first blew my mind. Always reaching for something fresh, surprising, and out of the ordinary. I feel his funky mischievous influence every time I set down to play. His spirit endures in every musician he affected so profoundly.

My favorite jazz era, straight ahead!

This is recording studio quality in a live performance.

I’ve recently discovered a masterpiece I’m inspired as I once was as a kid all over again I feel alive

I'd "like" this a million times... Did they know how unique this is while they were playing it?

How many times can I hit the Like button? One Millions times!

RIP, Mr Horace Silver..you were one of a kind,very special.

Excellent ...

All of them just great musicians. Love all the solos. Blue is one of the great trumpet players to my mind. I saw him as a leader in SF back in the 70s-he walked all around the room spreading jubilation. And I love Horace's too cool solo here too! But they're all so fine!

Horace-Siver's body may has left this world ....but his soul is JAMMMINNN...somewhere.. RIP my main man...

6:26 love this harmonic exploration in the middle of Mr. Silver's solo.

Ahead of his time, wish I knew of his music back then.

Young, strong, together, and quietly passionate. So thankful for the recording.

It's such a pleasure to watch real musicians feel the music any here real music. Buy Michael fly Hall

This is just really great. the restraint during horace's solo is fantastic and makes the head all the more riveting.

a lot of nostalgia and fun

Great music, Great Musicians The joy of great Jazz Music

Truly gifted. Pleasure hardly describes it. A wonderful team.

Brings back wonderful memories as my father would 'school us' about the JAZZ GREATs.....Horace Silver was definitely one of the THEM!! Awesome musicianship!! Cant help patting my feet! I love the way the movements flow and change!!!

Outstanding!

This is the birth of the Soul .

Yes!!! Thank you!!!!

line are beautiful

Loving the clean and cool vibes! So simple, yet every member hits every little bit together.

So lush and fluid. Horace's 'Song For My Father' is an especially loved Horace Silver song. Yes, all the good ones go, but 50 years later, here we all are, groovin' on his music. RIP with music hugging you all the while.

An outstanding performance of the Horace Silver classic. Interesting that Silver used the flat-finger Horowitz approach with his left hand and raised-fingers with his right hand. Thank you for this film.

whoaaa...whaaaa? these dudes are CRAAAZZZZYYY man wooow

Amazing

Thank you Horace for all your beautiful music. R.I.P

This is an outstanding performance of jazz music. Period.

incredible and beautiful

I love this! Blue Mitchell getting it, Horace and junior are all beasts!

the audience looks so thrilled. :D

deep and p[owerful!!! thank you mr. silver and all the great musicians!!!

Is there anything more affecting than Horace's almost tender, even modest, introduction? Which would be in inverse proportion to his rhythmic confidence and daring.

Good music., I really enjoyed it.,

A giant of piano, composition, sound and so talented. He deserves much more recognition but the jazz and music in général amateurs know..

THANK YOU, Horace!

LOVE HORACE, FOREVER. ALOHA, EVERYONE,. HAVE A AMAZING NEW YEAR. THIS SONG IS DONE BRILLIANTLY.

Horace Silver's music feeds my soul. I also love his Song for My Father.

I can’t get enough of Horace’s demeanor when he’s playing.

Fantastic Fabulous Wonderful

Previously recorded by Horace with Donald Byrd and Hank Mobley on 6 PIECES OF SILVER

Mr. Silver genius

Horace Silver is my FAVORITE composer! Can’t get enough of his stuff!!!!

These Cats are tight!

This is beyond sublime! Horace's piano can talk!

Such a wonderful sense of fluidity, effortlessness, and character. Their balance and harmony is so soothing & moving- I couldn't help but dance!

Perfection!

This is Heaven!

Like it so much that I've now listened to it five times!

THIS IS SUCH A GREAT TUNE

It sounds so fresh still, 64 years later. It must have seemed like something very different at the time.