| The Continuity of Spirit | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Horace Silver |
| Cover: | Continuity of Spirit.jpg |
| Released: | 1985 |
| Recorded: | March 25, 1985 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Silverto |
| Producer: | Horace Silver |
| Chronology: | Horace Silver |
| Prev Title: | Live 1964 |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Music to Ease Your Disease |
| Next Year: | 1988 |
The Continuity of Spirit is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his fourth released on the Silverto label, featuring performances by Silver with Carl Saunders, Buddy Collette, Ray Pizzi, Ernie Watts, Don Menza, Bob Maize and Carl Burnett with the Los Angeles Modern String Orchestra conducted by William Henderson and vocals by Andy Bey, Maxine Waters, Julia Waters, and Chuck Niles.[1]
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2 stars and states: "The Continuity of Spirit finds Silver paying tribute to Duke Ellington, W.C. Handy and Scott Joplin. The idea of using disc jockey Chuck Niles as 'the spirit of Duke Ellington' is pretty hokey and the original music owes little to Ellington, Handy or Joplin; everything is in Horace Silver's own style. But there are some swinging moments on this well-intentioned set."[2]
All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver