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Pencil Packin' Papa

Pencil Packin' Papa
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Studio album by Horace Silver
Released 1994
Recorded January 10 & 11, 1994
Genre Jazz
Label Columbia
Producer Horace Silver
Horace Silver chronology
It's Got to Be Funky
(1993)
Pencil Packin' Papa
(1994)
The Hardbop Grandpop
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 4/5 stars

Pencil Packin' Papa is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Columbia label in 1994 featuring performances by Silver with Oscar Brashear, Ron Stout, Jeff Bernell, George Bohanon, Maurice Spears, Suzette Moriarty, Red Holloway, James Moody, Eddie Harris, Rickey Woodard, Bob Maize, and Carl Burnett, with vocals by O.C. Smith. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars and states "This CD's main assets are the many new compositions by Horace Silver and his colorful arrangements for the six-piece brass section... In addition, O.C. Smith does a fine job on his four vocals although Silver's abilities as a lyricist are still open to question. However his piano solos are typically exciting and inventive and Silver has obviously lost none of his enthusiasm even after four decades of music making".


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