Horace Silver – It’s Got to be Funky (Full Album)

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It’s Got to Be Funky is an album by American jazz pianist Horace Silver, his first release on the Columbia label since Silver’s Blue (1956).

Track listing:
All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver
“Funky Bunky” – 7:31
“Dufus Rufus” – 5:34
“The Lunceford Legacy” – 7:03
“The Hillbilly Bebopper” – 5:28
“The Walk Around – Look up and Down Song” – 5:55
“It’s Got to Be Funky” – 6:45
“Basically Blue” – 6:27
“Song for My Father” – 8:33
“When You’re in Love” – 4:30
“Put Me in the Basement” – 7:19
“Little Mama” – 7:04
“Yo’ Mama’s Mambo” – 3:37

Personnel:
Horace Silver – piano
Oscar Brashear, Ron Stout, Bob Summers – trumpet, flugelhorn
Bob McChesney – trombone
Maurice Spears – bass trombone
Suzette Moriarty – french horn
Eddie Harris, Branford Marsalis – tenor saxophone
Red Holloway – tenor saxophone alto saxophone
Bob Maize – bass
Carl Burnett – drums
Andy Bey – vocals

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Released: 1993
Recorded: February 8 & 9, 1993
Label: Columbia
Producer: Horace Silver