Music to Ease Your Disease

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Music to Ease Your Disease
Studio album by
Released1988
RecordedMarch 31, 1988
GenreJazz
LabelSilverto
ProducerHorace Silver
Horace Silver chronology
The Continuity of Spirit
(1985)
Music to Ease Your Disease
(1988)
It's Got to Be Funky
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

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.[2]

Reception[edit]

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."[3]

Track listing[edit]

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"
  • Recorded in New York City on March 31, 1988.

Personnel[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Allmusic Review
  2. ^ Horace Silver discography, accessed November 30, 2009.
  3. ^ Yanow, S. Allmusic Review, accessed November 30, 2009.