September 26, 2025
On Oct. 24, Blue Note Records will release Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse, a never-before-issued live recording of Blue Note legend Horace Silver captured at The Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, Washington on August 12 and 19, 1965. Produced for release by Zev Feldman, the album features a short-lived powerhouse line-up of the pianist’s quintet with Woody Shaw on trumpet, Joe Henderson on tenor saxophone, Teddy Smith on bass, and Roger Humphries on drums performing uninhibited renditions of Silver classics including “Song For My Father” and “The Cape Verdean Blues,” as well as a rousing version of Henderson’s tune “The Kicker” which is out today.
Silver In Seattle will be released on LP, CD, and digital formats, and a selection of special merch items are also now available exclusively on the Blue Note Store including a re-creation of the original concert poster as well as short- and long-sleeved t-shirts.
The LP and CD come with an elaborate booklet with rare photos by Francis Wolff, Burt Goldblatt, Jean-Pierre Leloir and others; plus liner notes by acclaimed jazz scholar Bob Blumenthal; and interviews and statements with drummer Roger Humphries, Silver band alumni Randy Brecker and Alvin Queen, rising star pianist Sullivan Fortner, and more. Transferred from the original tapes recorded by KING-FM radio host and engineer Jim Wilke and mastered by Matthew Lutthans at the Mastering Lab, the broadcast quality recording presents one of the greatest hard bop bands of all time delivering a high-energy, crowd-pleasing performance in an intimate club setting.
“In 1965, the pianist Horace Silver was holding down the center of jazz, honing and expanding the hard-bop sound that he had helped to pioneer. A never-before-released live album, ‘Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse,’ captures him during this creative peak — and features personnel similar to that of his classic records of the era like ‘The Cape Verdean Blues,’ with the masterful saxophone-trumpet tandem of Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw out front.”—The New York Times
