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Horace Silver: The Top 25 pearls in Jazz history
Horace Silver biography
From the perspective of the 21st century, it is clear that few jazz musicians had a greater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The hard bop style that Silver pioneered in the ’50s is now dominant, played not only by holdovers from an earlier generation, but also by fuzzy-cheeked musicians who had yet to be born when the music fell out of critical favor in the ’60s and ’70s.
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Silver’s earliest musical influence was the Cape Verdean folk music he heard from his Portuguese-born father. Later, after he had begun playing piano and saxophone as a high schooler, Silver came under the spell of blues singers and boogie-woogie pianists, as well as boppers like Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell.
In 1950, Stan Getz played a concert in Hartford, Connecticut, with a pickup rhythm section that included Silver, drummer Walter Bolden, and bassist Joe Calloway. So impressed was Getz, he hired the whole trio. Silver had been saving his money to move to New York anyway; his hiring by Getz sealed the deal.
Silver worked with Getz for a year, then began to freelance around the city with such big-time players as Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, and Oscar Pettiford. In 1952, he recorded with Lou Donaldson for the Blue Note label; this date led him to his first recordings as a leader. In 1953, he joined forces with Art Blakey to form a cooperative under their joint leadership.

The band’s first album, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, was a milestone in the development of the genre that came to be known as hard bop. Many of the tunes penned by Silver for that record — “The Preacher,” “Doodlin’,” “Room 608” — became jazz classics.
By 1956, Silver had left the Messengers to record on his own. The series of Blue Note albums that followed established him for all time as one of jazz’s major composer/pianists. LPs like Blowin’ the Blues Away and Song for My Father (both recorded by an ensemble that included Silver’s longtime sidemen Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook) featured Silver’s harmonically sophisticated and formally distinctive compositions for small jazz ensemble.
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Silver’s piano style — terse, imaginative, and utterly funky — became a model for subsequent mainstream pianists to emulate. Some of the most influential horn players of the ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s first attained a measure of prominence with Silver — musicians like Donald Byrd, Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Benny Golson, and the Brecker Brothers all played in Silver’s band at a point early in their careers. Silver has even affected members of the avant-garde; Cecil Taylor confesses a Silver influence, and trumpeter Dave Douglas played briefly in a Silver combo.
Silver recorded exclusively for Blue Note until that label’s eclipse in the late ’70s, whereupon he started his own label, Silveto. Horace Silver’s ’80s work was poorly distributed.
During that time he began writing lyrics to his compositions, and his work began to display a concern with music’s metaphysical powers, as exemplified by album titles like Music to Ease Your Disease and Spiritualizing the Senses. In the ’90s, Silver abandoned his label venture and began recording for Columbia.
With his re-emergence on a major label, Silver once again received a measure of the attention his contributions deserve. Certainly, no one ever contributed a larger and more vital body of original compositions to the jazz canon. Silver died in New York on June 18, 2014, at the age of 85.
He had a son, Gregory – now a rap musician under the name of G Wise – from his marriage to Barbara, which ended in divorce.
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver, pianist and composer, born 2 September 1928, died 18 June 2014.
Selected Discography
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, Blue Note, 1954
Blowin’ the Blues Away, Blue Note, 1959
Song For My Father, Blue Note, 1964
Cape Verdean Blues, Blue Note, 1965
The Hardbop Grandpop, GRP, 1996
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Horace Silver – Blowin The Blues Away
Personnel:
Horace Silver – piano
Blue Mitchell – trumpet
Junior Cook – tenor saxophone
Gene Taylor – bass
Louis Hayes – drums
from the album ‘BLOWIN’ THE BLUES AWAY’ (Blue Note Records)
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Bill Evans – The Last Compositions |
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Bill Evans – The Last Compositions |
Bill Evans – Theme From Mash |
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Bill Evans – Turn out the Stars | Bill Evans – Turn out the Stars_compressed | |
Bill Evans – Turn Out The Stars – Bill Evans (Transcription) Jazz Standard sheet music (from Some Other Time) | Bill Evans – Turn Out The Stars – Bill Evans (Transcription) Jazz Standard sheet music | |
Bill Evans – Very Early |
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Bill Evans – Very Early Live In Paris [1972] solo transciption |
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Bill Evans – We will meet again from The 70’S Solo Piano |
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Bill Evans (1969) Emily sheet music transcription |
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Bill Evans 4 New Versions Of Bill Evans Tunes Taken From His Recordings |
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Bill Evans_4 New Versions Of Bill Evans Tunes Taken From His Recordings |
Bill Evans Autumn Leaves (as played in Portrait in Jazz) complete transcription | Bill Evans Autumn Leaves (as played in Portrait in Jazz) complete transcription | |
Bill Evans B Minor Waltz Transcription | Bill Evans B Minor Waltz Transcription | |
Bill Evans But Beautiful transcription | Bill Evans But Beautiful transcription | |
Bill Evans Collection For Solo Guitar |
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Bill Evans Collection For Solo Guitar |
Bill Evans Danny Boy, by Frederic Weatherly | Danny Boy, by Frederic Weatherly (Bill Evans Jazz version) | |
Bill Evans Emily |
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Bill Evans Fake Book (60 original compositions transcribed and edited by Pascal Wetzel) |
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Bill Evans Five |
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Bill Evans For All We Know (We May Meet Again) Piano Solo Transcription | Bill Evans For All We Know (We May Meet Again) | |
Bill Evans How My Heart Sings – as played by Bill Evans | Bill Evans How My Heart Sings – as played by Bill Evans | |
Bill Evans How My Heart Sings By Pettinger Peter (Book) |
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Bill Evans Israel (Transcription) by John Carisi | Bill Evans Israel (Transcription) by John Carisi-1 | |
Bill Evans Jazz Piano Transcriptions |
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Bill Evans Jazz Piano Transcriptions |
Bill Evans Jim Hall – Romain from Undercurrent |
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Bill Evans Like Someone In Love sheet music transcription (1962 Sessions) | Bill Evans April Like Someone In Love sheet music transcription (1962 Sessions) | |
Bill Evans Michel Legrand What are you doing the rest of your life (transcription) | Bill Evans Michel Legrand What are you doing the rest of your life (transcription) | |
Bill Evans Midnightmood |
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Bill Evans Minority Transcription | Bill Evans Minority Transcription | |
Bill Evans Nardis (Bill Evans Trio) |
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Bill Evans Oleo (Transcription) | Bill Evans Oleo | |
Bill Evans Omnibook For Piano Transcribed exactly from his recorded solos |
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Bill Evans Omnibook For Piano Transcribed exactly from his recorded solos |
Bill Evans Perfect Piano Score |
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Bill Evans Perfect Piano Score |
Bill Evans Piano Interpretations |
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Bill Evans-Piano Interpretations sheet music library |
Bill Evans Piano Solo Transcriptions |
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Bill Evans Piano Solo Transcriptions |
Bill Evans Plays – Original Compositions Solo Transcriptions |
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Bill Evans Plays |
Bill Evans Plays Duke Ellington Reflections In D |
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Bill Evans Plays Standards |
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Bill Evans Plays Standards sheet music |
Bill Evans Quiet Now (Jazz Standard) Transcription |
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Bill Evans Santa Claus Is Coming To Town Transcription |
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Bill Evans Solo Sessions Vol 1 Everything Happens To Me |
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Bill Evans Solo Sessions Vol 2 What Kind Of Fool Am I |
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Bill Evans Solo Sessions Vol1 April In Paris |
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Bill Evans Someday My Prince Will Come Piano Solo | Bill Evans Someday my prince will come piano solo | |
Bill Evans Songbook Jazz Piano Solos Series, Volume 19 (Bill Evans) 24 Selections |
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Bill Evans Songbook Jazz Piano Solos Series, Volume 19 (Bill Evans) |
Bill Evans Stella By Starlight Jazz Standard The Bill Evans Trio Vol 2 Transcription |
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Bill Evans Tenderly Everybody Digs | Bill Evans Tenderly Everybody Digs | |
Bill Evans The Bill Evans Trio Vol 1 |
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bill-evans-trio-Volume 1 1956-1961-transcriptions sheet music |
Bill Evans The Bill Evans Trio Vol 2 |
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Bill Evans The Bill Evans Trio Vol 2 |
Bill Evans The Bill Evans Trio Vol 3 |
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Bill Evans The Bill Evans Trio Vol 2 |
Bill Evans The Harmony Of Bill Evans by Jack Reilly |
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The Harmony Of Bill Evans (Piano Score) |
Bill Evans The Mastery Of Bill Evans Artist Piano Transcriptions (a close look at two classic compositions: Waltz for Debby and Very Early) by Pascal Wetzel |
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Bill Evans The Mastery Of Bill Evans Artist Piano Transcriptions |
Bill Evans Time Remembered (lead sheet) | Bill Evans Time Remembered | |
Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of April, 1962 Sessions Danny Boy |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of April, 1962 Sessions Easy To Love |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of April, 1962 Sessions In Your Own Sweet Way |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of April, 1962 Sessions Like Someone In Love |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of Everybody Digs Peace Piece |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of New Jazz Conceptions Waltz For Debby |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of Solo Sessions Vol.1 Medley My Favourite Things, Easy To Love, Baubles, Bangles And Beads |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of Solo Sessions Vol.2 I Loves You, Porgy (Complete Transcription) |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of Solo Sessions Vol.2 Love Is Here To Stay |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of Solo Sessions Vol.2 Medley Autumn In New York, How About You |
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Bill Evans Transcription sheet music of Solo Sessions Vol.2 Santa Claus Is Coming To Town |
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Bill Evans Transcriptions (Own Tunes and tunes by Earl Zindars) |
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Bill Evans Transcriptions (Own Tunes and tunes by Earl Zindars) |
Bill Evans Trio – Jazz improvisation (Transcriptions) |
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Bill Evans Trio – Jazz improvisation (Transcriptions) |
Bill Evans Turn Out Star | ||
Bill Evans We Will Meet Again |
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Bill Evans When I Fall In Love |
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Bill Evans You Go to my Head Piano solo (Omnibook For Piano Transcribed exactly from his recorded solos) Haven Gillespie J. Fred Coots | Bill Evans You Go to my Head Piano solo (Omnibook For Piano Transcribed exactly from his recorded solos) Haven Gillespie J. Fred Coots | |
Bill Evans- Body And Soul Transcription |
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Bill Frisell – St. Louis Blues Guitar Solo Transcription | Bill Frisell – St. Louis Blues Guitar Solo Transcription | |
Bill Frisell An Anthology |
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Bill Frisell An Anthology |
Bill Frisell The Guitar Artistry Of (DVD online access) |
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Bill Frisell Guitar Artisrty |
Bill Gaither Homecoming Souvenir Songbook Coolectors Edition |
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Bill Haley Rock Around The Clock Bill Haley & The Comets Easy Piano Solo |
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Bill Haley – Rock Around The Clock | ||
Bill Hart Solo Jazz Guitar The Complete Chords Melody Method with TAB |
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Bill Holman Front Runner Full Band Score |
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Bill Holman Kingfish Full band score |
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Bill Holman Malaga – Full Big Band |
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Bill Piburn plays Antonio Carlos Jobim – Jobim (Guitar with TABS) |
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Bill Piburn plays Antonio Carlos Jobim – Jobim (Guitar with TABS) |
Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine | ||
Bill Withers – Lean On Me | ||
Bill Withers Ain’t No Sunshine Piano Vocal Guitar |
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Bill Withers Lovely Day Piano Vocal Guitar chords |
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Billie Eilish Lovely With Khalid |
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Billie Eilish Wish You Were Gay Lu |
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Billie Eilish – Bad Guy Sheet Music Piano solo |
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Billie Eilish – Dont Smile At Me Songbook (Billie Eilish) Piano Vocal Guitar |
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Billie Eilish – Dont Smile At Me Songbook (Billie Eilish) Piano Vocal Guitar contents |
Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever Piano vocal guitar (Billie Eilish) |
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Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever Piano vocal guitar (Billie Eilish) |
Billie Eilish – Therefore I Am Sheet Music Piano vocal Guitar chords |
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Billie Eilish – What Was I Made For Billie Eilish piano solo arr. from Barbie OST | Billie Eilish – What Was I Made For Billie Eilish piano solo arr. 1st page | |
Billie Eilish – What Was I Made For easy piano with lyrics from Barbie OST | Billie Eilish – What Was I Made For easy piano-with lyrics 1st page | |
Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft |
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Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft Contents |
Billie Eilish Copycat |
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Billie Eilish For Beginning Piano Solo (Billie Eilish) |
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Billie Eilish For Beginning Piano Solo (Billie Eilish) |
Billie Eilish ilomilo (Piano Solo) |
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Billie Eilish My Boy |
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Billie Eilish The Diner (Piano solo arr.) | Billie Eilish The Diner (Piano solo arr.) | |
Billie Eilish THE GREATEST (Piano Solo arr.) | Billie Eilish THE GREATEST (Piano Solo arr.) | |
Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go Piano Vocal Guitar |
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Billie Eilish When We All Fall Asleep Where Do We Go Piano Vocal Guitar |
Billie Holiday – John Szwed The Musician and the Myth (Book) |
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Billie Holiday – The Songbook (piano-vocal-guitar chords) |
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Holiday, Billie – The Songbook |
Billie Holiday Diana Ross Songbook |
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Billie Holiday Diana Ross Songbook |
Billie Holiday Easy Living (Solo Guitar TAB) | Billie Holiday Easy Living (Solo Guitar TAB) Sample | |
Billie Holiday Songbook |
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BILLIE HOLIDAY SONGBOOK |
Billie Holiday The Very Best of Lady Day The Singer & The Songwriter Piano Vocal Chords |
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Billie Holiday The Very Best of Lady Day The Singer & The Songwriter Piano Vocal Chords |
Billy Elliot (The Musical) Vocal Score |
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Billy Elliot Vocal Score |
Billy Elliot – Electricity (The Musical) |
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Billy Idol – Guitar Songbook | Billy Idol – Guitar Songbook | |
Billy Joel – A Collection Of Songs |
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Billy Joel A Collection Of Songs |
Billy Joel – Best Of Piano Solos |
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Billy Joel – Best Of Piano Solos |
Billy Joel – Greatest songs (Piano & Voice) |
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BILLY JOEL – GRATEST SONGS (PIANO & VOICE) |
Billy Joel – Just the way you are |
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Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are as performed by Diana Krall) Sheet Music Piano Vocal Guitar Chords | Billy Joel – Just The Way You Are as performed by Diana Krall) Sheet Music Piano Vocal Guitar Chords | |
Billy Joel – Piano Man (sheet Music) | BILLY JOEL PIANOMAN | |
Billy Joel – Root Beer Rag | ||
Billy Joel – Shes Always A Woman | ||
Billy Joel – The Words And Music of – by Ken Bielen (Book) |
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Billy Joel – Uptowngirl | ||
Billy Joel Complete Volume 1 (Piano vocal Guitar sheet music) |
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Billy Joel Complete Volume 1 (Piano vocal Guitar sheet music) |
Billy Joel Complete Volume 2 (Piano vocal Guitar sheet music) |
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Billy Joel Complete Volume 2 (Piano vocal Guitar sheet music) |
Billy Joel Fantasies And Delusions (solo piano) |
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Billy Joel Favorites Keyboard Book (Billy Joel) |
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Billy Joel Favorites Keyboard Book (Billy Joel) |
Billy Joel Piano Man |
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Billy Joel Piano Man Piano Vocal Guitar |
Billy Joel Rock Score |
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Billy Joel The Best Of Billy Joel Easy Piano by Bill Boid |
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Billy Joel The Best Of Billy Joel Easy Piano by Bill Boid |
Billy Joel The Keyboard Book |
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Billy Preston – best of, Piano & Vocal songbook |
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Billy Preston – best of Piano & Vocal songbook |
Billy Preston Nothing From Nothing | Billy Preston Nothing From Nothing | |
Billy Ray Cyrus – Old Town Road [Remix] Sheet Music |
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Billy Strayhorn Chelsea Bridge |
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Billy Strayhorn Lotus Blossom Transcription As Played By Duke Ellington In 1967 |
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Billy Strayhorn Lush Life songbook Vol 66 |
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Billy Strayhorn Lush Life songbook Vol 66 |
Billy Strayhorn Satin Doll | Billy Strayhorn Satin Doll | |
Billy Strayhorn Take The A Train | Billy Strayhorn Take The A Train | |
Billy Strayhorn Take The A Train arranged for Piano by Billy Strayhorn |
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Billy Strayhorn Take The A Train Full Score |
Billy Taylor Modern Jazz Piano Solos |
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Billy Taylor Modern Jazz Piano Solos Contents |
Billy Taylor Be-Bop For Piano |
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Billy Taylor Be-Bop For Piano |
Billy Taylor The Jazz Life Of Dr. Billy Taylor (Billy Taylor Teresa L. Reed) Book |
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Birdland Joe Zawinul Arr Semton Barlas – Full concert band |
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Birdy Songbook Piano Vocal Guitar |
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Birth Of The Blues, The Jimmy Lally sheet music |
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Birtwistle Harrison’s Clocks for Piano Solo |
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Bizet Georges – Habanera (From The Opera Carmen) Piano Solo Arr. (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Bizet – Marche Des Rois Easy Piano |
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Bizet, Georges Habanera (From The Opera Carmen) Piano Solo Arr. |
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Bjork – Bachelorette |
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Bjork – Hunter Sheet Music |
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Bjork – Joga |
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Bjork – Oh so quiet |
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