Blowin' the Blues Away

Blowin' the Blues Away
Studio album by
the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio
ReleasedEarly November 1959[1]
Recorded
  • August 29–30, 1959
  • September 13, 1959
StudioVan Gelder Studio
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
GenreJazz
Length42:54
LabelBlue Note
BLP 4017
ProducerAlfred Lion
Horace Silver chronology
Finger Poppin'
(1959)
Blowin' the Blues Away
(1959)
Horace-Scope
(1960)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz[3]
The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide[4]
DownBeat[5]

Blowin' the Blues Away is an album by the Horace Silver Quintet & Trio, recorded at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey on August 29–30 and September 13, 1959 and released on Blue Note later that year.[6] The quintet features horn section Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook and rhythm section Eugene Taylor and Louis Hayes.[7]

  1. ^ Billboard Nov 23, 1959
  2. ^ Allmusic Review
  3. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2008). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings (9th ed.). Penguin. p. 1298. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  4. ^ Swenson, J., ed. (1985). The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide. USA: Random House/Rolling Stone. p. 181. ISBN 0-394-72643-X.
  5. ^ Gleason, Ralph J. (31 March 1960). "Review of Blowing the Blues Away" (PDF). DownBeat. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
  6. ^ Blowin' the Blues Away. Blue Note 7243 4 95342 2, 1999, back cover notes.
  7. ^ Horace Silver discography. Retrieved November 17, 2009.