[Cover photo credit to Brian McMillen]

Blue Note have announced the October 24, 2025 release of Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse, a never-before-issued live recording of Horace Silver captured 60 years ago at The Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, Washington on August 12 and 19, 1965.

The album features a short-lived 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 renditions of Silver classics, including “Song For My Father,” “The Cape Verdean Blues,” “The Kicker,” “Sayonara Blues,” and the lead single “No Smokin’“. The latter is out now.

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 recording presents the group delivering a high-energy performance in an intimate club setting.

Produced for release by Zev Feldman, Silver In Seattle will be released on LP and CD, both of which include a booklet with rare photos by Francis Wolff, Burt Goldblatt, Jean-Pierre Leloir and others, plus liner notes by Jazz scholar Bob Blumenthal, and interviews and statements with drummer Roger Humphries, Silver band alumni Randy Brecker and Alvin Queen, pianist Sullivan Fortner, and more.

Bob Blumenthal explains:

In what might be called the 33 1/3 era, Horace Silver was Blue Note’s quintessential recording artist. From his initial session as a leader in 1952 until the label’s temporary shutdown in 1979 he represented a model of the originality, innovation and consistency that became a label hallmark; and despite changes in the musical environment and his own style, he remained one of jazz’s most widely revered artists. The present newly discovered performances, taped at Seattle’s Penthouse jazz club roughly halfway through his affiliation with Blue Note captures Silver and his music at a critical part of the journey.