Horace Silver Quintet, at Antibes Jazz Festival, July 1964 (colorized)

Tokyo blues 00:00 Pretty eyes 16:19 Señor blues 31:51 No smokin 40:38 Que pasa? 47:25 A mix of two sets probably recorded in 27 and 28th July 1964. Various level of video quality. I could not find “The natives are restless tonight“ (may somebody help me) The band: Horace Silver (piano), Carmell Jones (trumpet), Joe Henderson (tenor sax), Teddy Smith (acoustic double bass), Roger Humphries (drums). from the newspaper “Le Monde“ dated 27th July 1964: “Assemblant avec une vigueur parfois furieuse de courtes phrases portées à un haut point d’exacerbation rythmique, Silver traite le piano avant tout comme un instrument de percussion, mais le compositeur est encore plus grand que l’instrumentiste : ses thèmes s’imposent par leur accent de violence, leur couleur à la fois rude et capiteuse, et il excelle à organiser en durée, découpage et ponctuations les interprétations d’un groupe qu’il vient de renouveler judicieusement en faisant appel notamment à Joe Henderson, un saxo ténor inspiré à la fois par Coltrane, Rollins et Yusef Lateef, et qui nous a paru comme la seule révélation de la soirée.“ “Assembling with sometimes furious vigor short phrases carried to a high point of rhythmic exacerbation, Silver treats the piano above all as a percussion instrument, but the composer is even greater than the instrumentalist: his themes are imposed by their accent of violence, their color both harsh and heady, and he excels at organizing in duration, division and punctuation the interpretations of a group that he has just judiciously renewed by calling in particular on Joe Henderson, a tenor sax inspired by both by Coltrane, Rollins and Yusef Lateef, and who seemed to us to be the only revelation of the evening.“