Horace Brown

Track Listings

1. Why Why Why

2. How Can We Stop - Horace Brown, Faith Evans

3. Things We Do for Love

4. I Want You Baby

5. One for the Money

6. Taste Your Love

7. Trippin'

8. I Like

9. Just Let Me Know

10. Gotta Find a Way

11. You Need a Man

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Horace Brown

Tracks:

Announcement By Pee Wee Marquette
Split Kick
Once In A While
Quicksilver
A Night In Tunisia
Mayreh
Wee-Dot (Alternate Take)
Blues (Improvisation)

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For all intents and purposes, the style of jazz known as hard bop came of age at this February 1954 live date from the famous New York club. By adding vibrant elements of blues, funk, soul, and gospel to the technically challenging and highly cerebral bebop form, hard bop became the dominant jazz style and to this day represents what is typically referred to as mainstream jazz. The lineup here resembles the '27 Yankees of the genre: trumpeter Clifford Brown was quickly becoming the red-hot alternative to Miles Davis's cool stylings (his work on the ballad "Once in a While" is worth the price of admission alone); pianist Horace Silver's driving, urgent sound epitomized the funky hard-bop aesthetic; alto Lou Donaldson and bassist Curly Russell had already graced countless essential recordings between them. From this seed grew three of the greatest hard-bop outfits in history: Blakey's Jazz Messengers, Silver's Quintet, and the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet. This short-lived ensemble might have them all licked. For a complete snapshot of the Birdland event, pick up A Night at Birdland, Volume 2, easily on par with Birdland, Volume 1 for sheer artistry. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

What can I say about this album..........2007-03-09

that hasn't been said already? ...I can't think of anything. Simply awesome, would suggest it to anybody that enjoys Clifford Brown or Horace Silver or Art Blakey (in other words, any listener of jazz)

Hard Bop 101.......2007-03-05

This recording is worth five stars alone just to hear Mr. Clifford Brown's performance. No amount of hyperbole can do this man justice. He is simply the best. It is almost bittersweet hearing Brownie sound this great knowing that he had so many of these unbelievable performances still left in him before his untimely and tragic death. This is definitely one of my top five favorites of any album he ever did. This is also one of my top ten favorites of any live album period! It is an amazing performance by the whole group of all-stars - Lou Donaldson, Art Blakey, Horace Silver and Curly Russell.

If you are a fan of Clifford Brown then this is essential! If I was teaching a jazz class this would be the first album I would play to the class as an example of hard bop at it's absolute finest.

So much began here.......2006-11-14

If you love hardbop and/or Horace Silver and/or Art Blakey, you need this album. It is just a joy to hear the band setting the course that so many others would follow over the years.

This is it!!!.......2005-06-13

This CD, with its partner Volume 2, is one of the greatest live recordings of a club date in jazz history. The hard-driving Blakey with his best group ever; Brownie is incredible. And unlike a studio date, there are no retakes, no editing, just raw improvisation at the highest level.

Two words: Clifford Brown.......2005-05-15

Some of the best Trumpet playing I've ever heard is on this album. The entire band rocks - but Cliffor Brown is on fire. I've listened to all the greats - but nothing stands up like this!

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A great night for jazz
Pressure Cooker
Bebop transforms into hard bop
Hard Bop Genesis
My favourite Art-Blakey set

A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
Art Blakey , Clifford Brown , and Horace Silver
Manufacturer: Blue Note Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1
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ASIN: B00005MIZ9
Release Date: 2001-08-07

Tracks:

Wee-Dot
If I Had You
Quicksilver
Now's The Time
Confirmation
The Way You Look Tonight
Lou's Blues

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The second volume of recordings from this seminal hard-bop date (February 21, 1954) picks up where Volume 1 leaves off, and is no less thrilling. Trumpeter Clifford Brown positively smokes through "Wee-Dot" and a supercharged reworking of the standard "The Way You Look Tonight." Alto Lou Donaldson earns his "Sweet Papa Lou" moniker with a tender reading of "If I Had You," rippling off a flurry of notes without ever upsetting the gentle nature of the tune, and evidencing a strong Bird influence in the process. Speaking of Bird, the two closing tunes come from Parker's pen, most notably "Now's the Time," which here receives a superbly slowed-down and funked-up rendition. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

A great night for jazz.......2005-03-15

This second volume of the Art Blakey Quintet live at Birdland (2/21/54) is just as good as volume 1. Clifford Brown, alto man Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver, and Curly Russell join Blakey for some swinging hard bop performances. "Wee-dot" is a fast blues, as is "Lou's blues," which might be just a tad too frantic. All the playing is exceptional, though, on every track. Should be had with volume 1, and both CDs are must-have deals.

Pressure Cooker.......2005-01-22

Be careful folks, this one can scorch your knickers! Everyone here is in tip-top shape and there are times when this one is a full-blown show of pure firepower.

It also slows down nicely though when it does pull back to the mid and slow tempos. Actually the mid-tempo stuff here is my favorite. Lou Donaldson purely shines here. He really should be more well-known. His playing is an absolute joy from beginning to end and, at least for me, he is the true star of this release. Of course there is also no lack of material here to please the Clifford Brown crowd, either. Sometimes upper-register pyrotechnics types of trumpet players seem to kill my ears. It's not my most favored style, but I still can't help but marvel at the lines Brownie blows here. When listening to him, I get the feeling that audience members probably broke out into a sweat just from hearing and seeing him play.

Even though Jazz at Massey Hall (whether partial or the complete one) is often viewed as a high-water mark in bebop, I'd tend to go with this disc as a better example of what it's all about. The sonic quality of this recording is fuller, richer, and I just think the performance is better, too. This disc has hard-bop-lengthed solos, but bebop style and freneticism... along with the killer slower stuff, as I mentioned earlier.

Bebop transforms into hard bop.......2004-10-05

The second album produced of a concert done in 1953 at Birdland by Art Blakey, this is actually better than Volume 1, in my opinion. I'd give it 4 stars for material and soloing, but 5 for importance, because there are several things are interesting about this cd:

1. This was the first live recording ever made that is not bootleg, but recorded for the specific purpose of commercial release.

2. Art Blakey is known as the god of hard bop, but this is really a bebop album, with blistering tunes and elongated, flowing lines by all the soloists. But you can begin to sense the elements of hard bop coming in, especially with Clifford Brown's solos, so in this way this is a great historical document.

3. The line up of Brown, Blakey and Silver, the three fathers of hard bop, all playing on the same stage is just a joy.

The album is deffinitely worthwhile, as Clifford Brown and Horace Silver (who I've always loved as a composer but less as a soloist) contributing excellent solos, especially Silver on Quicksilver, and Brown on Now's the Time and especially Confirmation. Altoist Lou Donaldson is a solid, adept player in the Bird tradition. While not the equal of Brown, he has two nice moments early on: he steals the show on the tune Wee Dot, and of course is featured on the ballad If I had You. Art Blakey is as brillaint on the drums as always, rarely taking a solo but shining when he does. This really is jazz history right here, and thus EVERY jazz fan should have it, especially lovers of Blakey, Brown and Silver.

Hard Bop Genesis.......2001-12-19

This 1954 live recording is a momentous one in jazz history -- it's one of the first recordings in a style that would be known as hard bop. Blakey's quintet, a clear forerunner of his Jazz Messengers, approaches the classic bop style, mixes in some soul and gospel, and cranks up the energy. Art Blakey's turbocharged drumming, Horace Silver's funky, blues-drenched playing, and the formidable frontline of trumpet wizard Clifford Brown and Bird disciple Lou Donaldson set the mold for the style.

Highlights of Volume 2 are a blistering interpretation of the Kern-Fields classic "The Way You Look Tonight" and two Charlie Parker tunes, "Confirmation" and "Now's The Time". Clifford Brown really burns on these tunes. If you like this CD, be sure to buy Volume 1 as well as the two Bohemia recordings of Blakey a year later.

My favourite Art-Blakey set.......2001-08-15

These live recordings were the first jazz albums I ever bought. Now, after having listened to many more I still think that this live set is one of the most amazing recordings I have. The Art Blakey Quintet was in great form on that particular night, about 50 years ago. The material is bebop as well as early fast hardbop - a nice mix of classics and songs mainly by Horace Silver. I highly recommend this live set to anybody interested in jazz!

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Excellent album!
representing
Gold Dust
excellent
I LIKE

Horace Brown
Horace Brown
Manufacturer: Motown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001AAQ
Release Date: 1996-06-18

Tracks:

Why Why Why
How Can We Stop
Things We Do For Love
I Want You Baby
One For The Money
Taste Your Love
Trippin'
I Like
Just Let Me Know
Gotta Find A Way
You Need A Man

Customer Reviews:

Excellent album! .......2005-07-24

Why Horace Brown didn't get the push he got with this album is beyond me! This is such a soulful driven album. Horace delivers on many of the songs, including Gotta Find a Way, Things We Do For Love, Think About You (that funky Puff Daddy-produced song), and many others. The efforts from Dave Hall, Puffy, Kevin Deane and others here are some dynamically done R&B songs with shades of hip-hop beats within it. The ballads have a mellow tone to them and Horace sings them nicely. Horace was promising on this debut and why he hasn't gotten the big break he wants is beyond me.

representing.......2005-04-01

da brotha kickz it . if ya aint got it . cop dat shyte

Gold Dust.......2003-07-21

How can i describe such an album? .... Ultimate Rnb Gold.
This album is timeless, i bought it back in 1996 its still sounds good today. Top track is Why, Why, Why, Horace Brown was the only one around with emough guts to write this track, it puts the listener in a trance, you really start to feel what he's talking about. Another is Taste Your Love, Horace seems to concentrate on the darker side of love. Like wanting your best friend's girlfiend, oral sex (Taste Your Love)Cheating (Things We Do For Love), Gotta Find A Way is letting go of a girlfiend. Horace Brown nailed it the first go, a proper rnb record, pity he did not release another, if you don't have this CD, you into commercial rnb and that a load of Ashanti. Perfect.

excellent.......2001-08-11

one of the best artist to run with andre harrell.is he ever gonna release a second album.

I LIKE.......2000-05-23

I just want to say that this is a fantastic album. I've been trying to think of a more appropriate way to say it, but I keep coming back to the same thing - It's Fantastic. I love it - it is the epitemy of what rnb should be living up to.

Everything from the lyrics (to most tracks), to the vocals, to the production. The great thing about this album is that it takes something of a bitter attitude towards love, with most of the tracks centering around a guy who loves his best friends girl; or, a guy who can't forgive his girl for cheating; or, a couple whose relationship is falling apart. Not the most exciting of topics, but the sombre lyrics suit the production style, and gives off a general mood (a dark one at that).

Top tracks include: "Why Why Why"; "How can we stop"; "Things We do for love"; "I want u babe"; "Trippin"; "Gotta Find a way"; "Let me know"; and, "I Like"

Yup, that's pretty much every track.

The only reason it misses out on 5 stars is because of tracks like "One 4 the Money" "U need a man" "Enjoy" and to a lesser extent "Taste ur Love" - they don't really fit the rest of the album top one's, but I love it nonetheless. HB come back! rnb needs u!

Tracks:

One For The Money [LP Version]
One For The Money [Fabulous Remix]]
One For The Money [Radio Edit]
One For The Money [Instrumental]
Taste Your Love [LP Version]
Taste Your Love [Hip hop Remix]

Customer Reviews:

Horace Brown: One For The Money.......2006-01-12

Track Listing:

1. One For The Money [LP Version] [4:24]
2. One For The Money [Fabulous Remix] [4:23]
3. One For The Money [Radio Edit] [4:00]
4. One For The Money [Instrumental] [4:24]
5. Taste Your Love [LP Version] [4:45]
6. Taste Your Love [Hip hop Remix] [4:30]

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horsce brown
horace brown
Manufacturer: Motown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000F7U0QC

Product Description

1. Why, why, why 2. How can we stop 3. Things we do for love 4. I want you baby 5. One for the money 6. Taste your love 7. Trippin' 8. I like 9. Just let me know 10. Gotta find a way 11. You need a man

Vault Classics - Grapevine Dynamite Records - Volume 1

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Vault Classics - Grapevine Dynamite Records - Volume 1
Sugar Minnott , Bobby Floyd , Gregory Issacs , Carlton Livingston , Yellowman & Peter Metro , Dennis Brown , Al Campbell , Michael Palmer , Horace Andy , and Little John
Manufacturer: Grapevine Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000EMMEEY

Product Description

Vault Classics - Grapevine Dynamite Records - Volume 1 // 1. Ghetto Uptown - Sugar Minnott 2. My Skin Is Black - Bobby Floyd 3. I Care - Gregory Issacs 4. Rumors - Carlton Livingston 5. Canada Cold - Yellowman/Peter Metro 6. To Have And To Hold - Dennis Brown 7. Bad Boy - Al Campbell 8. Mr. Officer - Michael Palmer 9. Tell Me Why - Horace Andy 10. My Woman Is Crying - Little John 11. Come We A Come - Yellowman/Fathead 12. Wasn't In Vain - Sugar Minnott 13. Rip And Run Off - Michael Palmer 14. You Ready - Leroy Smart 15. Special Arrangement - Pat Kelly 16. Lonely Man - Carlton Livingston 17. Johnny Bad So - Lone Ranger 18. Lets Get Married - Pat Kelly

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Taste Your Love
Horace Brown
Manufacturer: Universal Music & VI
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DWE8
Release Date: 1995-11-07

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Classic R&B Duet

How Can We Stop/Just Let Me Know
Horace Brown
Manufacturer: Motown
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000DF4E
Release Date: 1996-10-22

Customer Reviews:

Classic R&B Duet.......2003-07-11

This single headlines a terrific, yet unsequeled album from Horace Brown. This ballad features the smooth, seductive voice of Faith Evans and the melodic strains of Horace Brown. It is a crying shame that he hasn't released another album since his debut years ago, because his first effort was pretty darn tight. I rate this single a perfect 5, and give his album a 4 of 5 just because there are a couple of tracks that I didn't quite dig. All in all, a classic single though!

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70 Ounces of Reggae
Gregory Isaacs , Ken Boothe , Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters , Rita Marley & the Soulettes , John Holt , Freddie McGregor , Judy Nowatt & The Gaylettes , Carlene Davis , Dennis Brown , and Slim Smith
Manufacturer: Compose Records
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000B9OP42

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70 Ounces of Reggae /// 1. Slave Master - Gregory Isaacs 2. Silver Words - Ken Boothe 3. Run for Cover - Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters 4. You My Desire - Rita Marley & the Soulettes 5. Everybody Needs Love - John Holt 6. Brandy - Freddie McGregor 7. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah - Judy Nowatt & The Gaylettes 8. Brown Eyes Blue - Carlene Davis 9. Traveling Man - Dennis Brown 10. She Want It - John Holt 11. Red, Red Wine - Ken Boothe 12. Night Doctor - Lee "Scratch" Perry & the Upsetters 13. Place in the Sun - Slim Smith 14. Traia to Skaville - The Ethiopians 15. Suspicious Minds - The Heptones 16. I Remember - Carlene Davis 17. For Your Love - Gregory Isaacs 18. Here I Come - Dennis Brown 19. Repatriation - Horace Andy 20. Hot Like a Melting Pot - Dennis Brown