Reading Horace Silver's autobiography has inspired a Silver-themed obsession this week. This means revisiting old Blue Note records by Silver that I have not listened to in several years. "The Natives Are Restless Tonight" is one example of a great Silver tune I have forgotten about. While it is not as memorable as "Song For My Father," it features Joe Henderson and hard-swinging rhythms in that unique Silveresque hard-bop vein. Horace Silver was, without a doubt, the master of hard bop piano with a gift for fusing the genre's bluesy roots with Latin elements.
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