Review: SFJAZZ Collective works hard but fails to shine in Horace Silver tribute

In past years, the all-star octet's transformations of music by Ornette Coleman, Wayne Shorter, Thelonious Monk and others have recast the originals in illuminating ways. But Silver seemed to defy the group's efforts; maybe his sound is too specific to its time-period '“ or just shouldn't be messed with.

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