Horace Parlan: Up And Down (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP etjs-72 More than any other album

More than any other album in the canon of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

Recorded in May 1963

Claude Utley

" says Horace Silver in the spoken introduction to Doin' The Thing

It also marks the first stirrings of the spiritual vibe that would increasingly come to define his work in the next few years

Horace Parlan: Up And Down (Blue Note Tone Poet Series) 1LP etjs-72 More than any other albumBlue Note, 1961 The bluesy and soulful pianist Horace Parlan is perhaps best known for his work with Charles Mingus on the bassists seminal 1959 albums Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots. That same year Parlan made his first Blue Note appearance on Lou Donaldsons album The Time Is Right and in early 1960 he began leading his own sessions for the label with a run of six quintessential hard bop dates recorded over a prolific 16 month period. Following the