Jazz fans are in for a treat this fall. On October 24, Blue Note Records will release Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse, a never-before-issued recording of the legendary Horace Silver Quintet, captured 60 years ago at Seattle’s iconic Penthouse jazz club on August 12 and 19, 1965.
This remarkable live session brings together one of Silver’s most powerful yet short-lived line-ups:
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Horace Silver – piano
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Woody Shaw – trumpet
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Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
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Teddy Smith – bass
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Roger Humphries – drums
Listeners will hear energetic, unrestrained renditions of Silver’s classics, including Song For My Father, The Cape Verdean Blues, The Kicker, Sayonara Blues, and the newly released lead single, No Smokin’.
Transferred from the original broadcast tapes recorded by KING-FM radio host and engineer Jim Wilke, and expertly mastered by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab, this release offers stunning sound quality. It places you right in the middle of a packed club, with Silver’s hard bop magic in full swing.
Produced by Zev Feldman, the album will be available on both LP and CD, each accompanied by an elaborate booklet. The booklet features rare photography by Francis Wolff, Burt Goldblatt, and Jean-Pierre Leloir, along with liner notes by acclaimed jazz scholar Bob Blumenthal. You’ll also find interviews with drummer Roger Humphries, Silver alumni Randy Brecker and Alvin Queen, and rising star pianist Sullivan Fortner.
“In what might be called the 33 1/3 era, Horace Silver was Blue Note’s quintessential recording artist,” Blumenthal writes. “From his first session as a leader in 1952 until the label’s temporary shutdown in 1979, he embodied the originality, innovation, and consistency that defined Blue Note. These newly discovered performances—captured halfway through his Blue Note journey—show Silver at a pivotal creative moment.”
Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse is more than a long-lost recording—it’s a time capsule, a front-row ticket to a night when one of jazz’s greatest bands played with unmatched energy and soul.
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