Not only is Horace Silver a favorite jazz composer and musician of mine  this is one of my favorite albums of his If I had to guess  Silver was given the title of leader on this early Jazz Messengers effort since  unlike the Birdland and Bohemia Messenger LPs of the same era  the majority of the selections here (all but one) were written by Silver  who only penned three of the nine original Birdland tracks and nothing on the original Bohemia LPs