It's Got to Be Funky is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his first release on the Columbia label since Silver's Blue (1956), featuring performances...

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"Horace Silver – It's Got to Be Funky". AllMusic. Retrieved January 4, 2016. Bogle, Dick (September 8, 1993). "Dick's Picks: It's Got to Be Funky". The Skanner...

Milt Jackson's nickname.) The other tracks recorded during this session may be found on Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150), and all of them...

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career. Three of the four tunes were Sonny Rollins originals, and would go on to become regular parts of both Davis' and Rollins' live sets. In his autobiography...

Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription...

Miles Davis, released in 1954 by Prestige Records. The album title is not to be confused with either of Davis' later Great Quintets. The three tracks on...

Davis would record with the young Horace Silver, whom he liked for his funky style of playing. After the 10" LP format was discontinued, the tracks would...

goes on to describe the goal of this recording: to return to "the fire and improvisation of bebop", but combined with a more forward looking funky kind of...

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with Mundy and Tadd Dameron, and was not known to be a musician or composer. "Solar" was attributed to Davis and copyrighted in his name in 1963. Evidence...

Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription...

"Too Funky" is a song written and performed by English singer and songwriter George Michael and released by Columbia Records in the United States and...

review stated: "all eight numbers will easily be enjoyed by straight-ahead jazz fans." The Penguin Guide to Jazz gave it a 3½-star review, expressing a...

compositions "Four" and "Tune Up" were always credited to Davis, although both were claimed by Eddie Vinson to be his compositions. Vinson was a known blues singer...

Silver's recordings as a leader were for the Blue Note label. In addition to Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers listed above, Silver recorded two live...

bassist and composer Charles Mingus on one track, playing piano. This was to be Davis' final studio session until he finally kicked his heroin habit for...

composed by Horace Silver in 1954. It is one of many songs written in tribute to jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The song was first recorded by...

is pure Silver, hard-driving and melodic hard bop with a strong dose of funky soul". All compositions by Horace Silver except where noted "Liberated Brother"...

run, each repeated. Before taking the tune out, the band riffs behind his funky noodling in classic call-and-response fashion." "The gospel influence of...

a trip that Silver had made to Brazil. The cover artwork features a photograph of Silver's father, John Tavares Silver, to whom the title composition was...

Pan-African Chronology III. McFarland. p. 472. Silver, Horace (2006). Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver. University of California...

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September 27, 2016. Silver, Horace (2006). Pastras, Phil (ed.). Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty: The Autobiography of Horace Silver. University of California...

American Original. Free Press. p. 219. ISBN 978-0-684-83190-9. "Joe Jackson got to me, Body and Soul". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 November 2017. v t e...

compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver "Pencil Packin' Papa" – 5:48 "I Got the Dancin' Blues" – 7:08 "Soul Mates" – 6:50 "I Need My Baby" – 7:02 "My...

Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) Rockin' with Rachmaninoff (1991) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994) The Hardbop Grandpop (1996) A Prescription...

all-time Blue Note classics... one of Silver's finest albums, and it's virtually impossible to dislike." All tracks are written by Horace Silver, except as...

Wind" to the second. The AllMusic reviews called the albums "still timeless music" that have "influenced jazz up to present time". The Penguin Guide to Jazz...