It's Got to Be Funky

It's Got to Be Funky
Studio album by Horace Silver
Released	1993
Recorded	February 8 & 9, 1993
Genre	Jazz
Label	Columbia
Producer	Horace Silver
Horace Silver chronology
Music to Ease Your Disease (1988) It's Got to Be Funky (1993) Pencil Packin' Papa (1994)

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Allmusic	[1]

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 by Silver with Oscar Brashear, Ron Stout, Bob Summers, Bob McChesney, Maurice Spears, Suzette Moriarty, Eddie Harris, Branford Marsalis, Red Holloway, Bob Maize, and Carl Burnett, with vocals by Andy Bey.^[2] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "After a 13-year period in which he mostly recorded for his private Silveto label, pianist/composer Horace Silver was rediscovered by Columbia for this session... All of the music (except for a remake of "Song for My Father") was new and served as proof that the master of jazz-funk had not lost his stuff".^[3]