Silverto Records Albums - The Continuity of Spirit, Music to Ease Your Disease, Guides to Growing Up, There's No Need to Struggle (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: The Continuity of Spirit, Music to Ease Your Disease, Guides to Growing Up, There's No Need to Struggle, Spiritualizing the Senses. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Continuity of Spirit is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his fourth released on the Silverto label, featuring performances by Silver with Carl Saunders, Buddy Collette, Ray Pizzi, Ernie Watts, Don Menza, Bob Maize and Carl Burnett with the Los Angeles Modern String Orchestra conducted by William Henderson and vocals by Andy Bey, Maxine Waters, Julia Waters, and Chuck Niles. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and states "The Continuity of Spirit finds Silver paying tribute to Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy and Scott Joplin. The idea of using disc jockey Chuck Niles as "the spirit of Duke Ellington" is pretty hokey and the original music owes little to Ellington, Handy or Joplin; everything is in Horace Silver's own style. But there are some swinging moments on this well-intentioned set." All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=25250813