Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Compilation album by
ReleasedOctober 1956
Recorded
  • November 13, 1954
  • February 6, 1955
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, New Jersey
GenreHard bop
Length43:50
LabelBlue Note
BLP 1518
ProducerAlfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology
Horace Silver Trio and Art Blakey-Sabu
(1955)
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
(1956)
Silver's Blue
(1956)
Jazz Messengers chronology
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
(1956)
At the Cafe Bohemia, Vol. 1
(1956)
Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 3
Studio album by
the Horace Silver Quintet
Released1955
RecordedNovember 13, 1954
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, NJ
LabelBlue Note
BLP 5058
Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 4
Studio album by
the Horace Silver Quintet
Released1955
RecordedFebruary 6, 1955
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Hackensack, NJ
LabelBlue Note
BLP 5062

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers is an album by Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers compiling two 1955 10" LPs—Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 3 (BLP 5058) and Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 4 (BLP 5062)—recorded on November 13, 1954 and February 6, 1955 respectively and released on Blue Note in October 1956—Silver’s debut 12". The quintet features horn section Hank Mobley and Kenny Dorham and rhythm section Doug Watkins and Art Blakey.