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Title: What Happened?
Review: Not really sure what happened here. Billed as a reunion with esteemed past members of the Horace Silver Quintet (especially the Brecker Brothers), this CD disappoints. The batch of tunes Horace assembled is quite undistinguished, mostly simple blues forms with some hesitant soloing by the leader. Each tune seems like a pastiche of a real Silver song.Obviously, he was told there would be no vocalizing this time out, even though he had written a complete batch of lyrics. Was Horace disappointed? Resentful? I also think that symptoms of his later affliction may have begun to appear.
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