It's Got to Be Funky

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It's Got to Be Funky
It's Got to Be Funky.jpg
Studio album by
Horace Silver
Released1993
RecordedFebruary 8 & 9, 1993
GenreJazz
LabelColumbia
ProducerHorace Silver
Horace Silver chronology
Music to Ease Your Disease
(1988) 		It's Got to Be Funky
(1993) 		Pencil Packin' Papa
(1994)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic4/5 stars[1]

It's Got to Be Funky is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his first release on the Columbia label since Silver's Blue (1956), featuring performances by Silver with Oscar Brashear, , , Bob McChesney, , , Eddie Harris, Branford Marsalis, Red Holloway, Bob Maize, and , with vocals by Andy Bey.[2] The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states: "After a 13-year period in which he mostly recorded for his private Silveto label, pianist/composer Horace Silver was rediscovered by Columbia for this session... All of the music (except for a remake of "Song for My Father") was new and served as proof that the master of jazz-funk had not lost his stuff".[3]

Track listing[]

All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver
  1. "Funky Bunky" - 7:31
  2. "Dufus Rufus" - 5:34
  3. "The Lunceford Legacy" - 7:03
  4. "The Hillbilly Bebopper" - 5:28
  5. "The Walk Around - Look up and Down Song" - 5:55
  6. "It's Got to Be Funky" - 6:45
  7. "Basically Blue" - 6:27
  8. "Song for My Father" - 8:33
  9. "When You're in Love" - 4:30
  10. "Put Me in the Basement" - 7:19
  11. "Little Mama" - 7:04
  12. "Yo' Mama's Mambo" - 3:37
  • Recorded in NYC on February 8 & 9, 1993.

Personnel[]

References[]

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


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