Josephine Davies The Celtic Wheel Of The Year Suite

6 Pieces of Silver is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1957 featuring performances by Silver with Donald Byrd, Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins and Louis Hayes. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars and states "The early Silver quintet was essentially the Jazz Messengers of the year before but already the band was starting to develop a sound of its own. "Señor Blues" officially put Horace Silver on the map".

This 2002 release is something of a comeback for Crack the Sky,and is a return to the early days for this amazing Baltimore prog band(whose self-titled 1975 debut album was hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as the "Debut Album of the Year").Crack the Sky is characteristically known for intelligent and insightful lyrics,strong musicianship(particularly on guitar) and for pulling elements of bands like Gentle Giant,Genesis and King Crimson into a unique blend of progressive rock that has rarely been done this well by anyone else. The band for this release is Bobby Hird (guitars,) John Palumbo (vocals, keyboards, guitar,) John Tracy (drums,) Rick Witkowski (guitars,) Glenn Workman (keyboards) and Carey Ziegler (bass.)