Artist:  HORACE SILVER QUINTET / SEXTET

Title:  “The Jody Grind”

Label:  BLUE NOTE.  Catalog number is BLP 4250.  Label is blue/white with blue text.  Mono pressing on medium weight vinyl. 

Label address is “BLUE NOTE RECORDS * A DIVISION OF LIBERTY RECORDS, INC.” on both sides.

“VAN GELDER” is stamped in runout area on both sides. 

Year:   1967.

Personnel: 

Woody Shaw – trumpet

James Spaulding – alto sax & flute

Tyrone Washington – tenor sax

Horace Silver – piano

Larry Ridley – bass

Roger Humphries - drums.

Condition: 

DISC:  Vinyl is EXCELLENT with full original gloss.  Has been played a small number of times and handled with care.  There are a couple very light hairline “surface” scuffs but no serious or audible marks or distractions.  Plays beautifully with superb fidelity.  Labels are clean.          

JACKET:  Gatefold jacket is nice VG++ with nice bright artwork.   Outer panels are clean, with a few very slight traces of ring wear starting to appear.  Light shelf wear on seams, spine and corners, and a small split on the bottom seam, approximately 2 inches at the center.  Inside panels of the gatefold are clean and pristine.  No writing, stickers, or cutout indications.  Overall a very fine jacket to accompany the great sounding disc.  

Track Listing: 

Side 1:

The Jody Grind Mary Lou Mexican Hip Dance

Side Two:

Blue Silver Grease Piece Dimples

Review:

“Following the subtly modern bent of much of The Cape Verdean Blues, Horace Silver recommitted himself to his trademark "funky jazz" sound on The Jody Grind.  Yet he also consciously chose to keep a superbly advanced front line, with players like trumpeter Woody Shaw (retained from the Cape Verdean session), altoist/flutist James Spaulding, and tenor saxophonist Tyrone Washington.  Thus, of all Silver's groove-centered records, The Jody Grind winds up as possibly the most challenging.  It's also one of the most underappreciated; Silver's piano playing is at its rhythmic, funky best throughout, brimming over with confidence and good cheer, and evoking memories of the classic feel of his early-'60s quintet.  His compositions have a similarly bright overtone, which (as the liner notes allude to) was becoming increasingly rare in mid-'60s jazz as the fury of the avant-garde and the Civil Rights upheaval began to seep into jazz's wider consciousness.  

The title cut is a playful, overlooked classic on the funky side of hard bop; Silver kicks it with a tasty groove, giving the rest of the musicians plenty to play off of.  The whole group absolutely burns through "Grease Piece," a terrific hard swinger full of smoking solo statements from just about everyone on down to drum whiz Roger Humphries.  Really, the whole album is packed with great grooves and tight solos, epitomizing the best virtues of Silver's music.  For those who have digested classics like Song for My Father, Blowin’ the Blues Away, and Finger Poppin', The Jody Grind is one of the best places to go next.”

(courtesy Steve Huey, allmusic.com.)

 

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