No Smokin' is a hard bop composition by pianist and composer Horace Silver, written for his quintet and first recorded on May 8, 1957, at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack, New Jersey. The tune appeared on the album The Stylings of Silver, released on Blue Note Records with a group featuring Art Farmer on trumpet, Hank Mobley on tenor saxophone, Teddy Kotick on bass, and Louis Hayes on drums. Cast in AABA form over 40 bars, the composition reflects Silver's gift for writing energetic, swinging melodies grounded in blues feeling and rhythmic drive. The piece maintains a lively mid-tempo groove that supports extended improvisation while keeping a compact, accessible structure characteristic of Silver's writing during this period. It is not a contrafact but an entirely original composition. No Smokin' sits within Silver's prolific output of the late 1950s, a period when he was establishing himself as one of hard bop's most important composer-pianists following his departure from the Jazz Messengers. While it has not achieved the ubiquity of Silver standards like Song for My Father or The Preacher, the tune is a valued piece in his catalog that has attracted occasional attention from other musicians, including a high-energy live version by Silver's 1965 quintet featuring Woody Shaw and Joe Henderson, recorded at the Penthouse in Seattle.
