Music to Ease Your Disease explained

Music to Ease Your Disease
Type:Album
Artist:Horace Silver
Cover:Music to Ease Your Disease.JPG
Released:1988
Recorded:March 31, 1988
Genre:Jazz
Label:Silverto
Producer:Horace Silver
Chronology:Horace Silver
Prev Title:The Continuity of Spirit
Prev Year:1985
Next Title:It's Got to Be Funky
Next Year:1993

Music to Ease Your Disease is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his fifth and final release on the Silverto label, featuring performances by Silver with Clark Terry, Junior Cook, Ray Drummond, and Billy Hart, with vocals by Andy Bey.[1]

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars and states: "Horace Silver has long been a believer in the self-help holistic movement and this has been reflected in the lyrics he has written during the past decade... However there are plenty of strong instrumental moments from an all-star quintet that includes pianist Silver, fluegelhornist Clark Terry, tenor-saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Ray Drummond and drummer Billy Hart, and for that reason this is the strongest release on Silverto to date."[2]

Track listing

All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver

  1. "Prologue"
  2. "Hangin' Loose"
  3. "The Respiratory Story"
  4. "Tie Your Dreams to a Star"
  5. "Music to Ease Your Disease"
  6. "The Philanthropic View"
  7. "What is the Sinus Minus"
  8. "Epilogue"

Personnel

Notes and References

  1. http://www.jazzdisco.org/horace-silver/catalog/#silveto-spr-105 Horace Silver discography
  2. Yanow, S. [{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r147586|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic Review], accessed November 30, 2009.