Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver
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Love and Peace: A Tribute to Horace Silver is a 1995 studio album
Studio album
A studio album is an album made up of tracks recorded in the controlled environment of a recording studio. A studio album contains newly written and recorded or previously unreleased or remixed material, distinguishing itself from a compilation or reissue album of previously recorded material, or...

 by Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...

, recorded in tribute to Horace Silver
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

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Silver himself makes two guest appearances on this album, on "Nica's Dream" and "Song for My Father". Silver's contributions were recorded on December 1, 1994.

Bridgewater's performance earned her a Grammy nomination for Best Jazz Vocal Album
Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album
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Track listing

  1. "Permit Me to Introduce You to Yourself" – 3:25
  2. "Nica's Dream" – 5:14
  3. "The Tokyo Blues" – 5:44
  4. "Pretty Eyes" – 5:05
  5. "St. Vitus Dance" – 2:40
  6. "You Happened My Way" – 6:29
  7. "Soulville" – 4:16
  8. "Filthy McNasty" – 4:51
  9. "Song for My Father" – 5:30
  10. "Doodlin'" – 6:06
  11. "Lonely Woman" – 5:21
  12. "The Jody Grind" – 5:00
  13. "Blowin' the Blues Away" – 3:55


All music and lyrics written by Horace Silver
Horace Silver
Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

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Personnel

  • Dee Dee Bridgewater
    Dee Dee Bridgewater
    Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American Jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress and host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater...

     - vocal
    Singing
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  • Stephanie Belmondo - trumpet
    Trumpet
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  • Lionel Belmondo - tenor saxophone
    Tenor saxophone
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  • Horace Silver
    Horace Silver
    Horace Silver , born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva in Norwalk, Connecticut, is an American jazz pianist and composer....

     - piano
    Piano
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  • Hein Van DeGeyn - double bass
    Double bass
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  • Andre Ceccarelli - drum
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