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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.
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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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Evolution Of Blues Piano (Book) by Ron Drotos |
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Evolution Of Blues Piano (Book) by Ron Drotos |
Ewan Mcgregor ft. Nicole Kidman – Come What May | ||
Exercises For The Jazz Musician by Charles McNeal |
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Exodus Ernest Gold (Piano Solo Arr. By Richard Clayderman) |
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Exodus – Ernest Gold Arr. By Richard Clayderman (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Expanding Walking Bass Lines With Embedded Audio Mp3 |
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Expanding Walking Bass lines |
Eyes On Me (From Final Fantasy Viii) Nobuo Uematsu (Musescore File).mscz | ||
F. Sor Introduction To Guitar Study (25 Etudes) Op. 60 (Musescore File).mscz | ||
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Fabrizio Paterlini Broken |
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Fabrizio Paterlini Conversation With Myself |
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Fado Foi Deus Arr Silvestre Fonseca |
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Fado Nem As Paredes Confesso Arr Silvestre Fonseca for guitar |
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Fado Rosinha Dos Limoes arr. for Piano (für Klavier) by Wilfried Wachter) |
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Fado – Amalia Rodrigues Foi Deus Arr. Guitarra & TAB por S.R. Cavaco | Fado – Amalia Rodrigues Foi Deus Arr. Guitarra & TAB por S.R. Cavaco | |
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Fado Portuguese Folk Song Arr. For Guitar |
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Fados (original) arr. for guitar by Duarte Costa | Fados (original) arr. for guitar by Duarte Costa | |
Faith Hill – There Youll Be | ||
Faith Hill – Where Are You Christmas | ||
Faith No More – Easy Like Sunday Morning | ||
Fake Book – 150 American Jazz Standards | Fake Book – 150 American Jazz Standards | |
Faking Your Own Arrangements From Melodies and Chords HOW TO PLAY FROM A FAKE BOOK by Blake Neely |
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Music Theory – Arranging – Fake Book – Faking Your Own Arrangements From Melodies and Chords |
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Fallout 4 – End of the world | ||
Fallout 4 – Main theme |
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Fallout 4 Main Theme piano solo sheet music |
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Fallout 4 Trailer | ||
Fame The Musical |
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Fame The Musical |
Family Guy Theme (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Family Guy Theme by Walter Murphy Piano Solo and Guitar chords |
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Famous Jazz Guitar Solos |
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Famous Ragtime arranged for Guitar Solo |
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Fandango (Concierto Madrigal) Joaquin Rodrigo | ||
Fantasia 2- The Final Challenge – Richard Harvey | ||
Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis Keyboard (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Far Cry 5 When The Morning Light Shines in by Dan Romer Piano Solo |
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Far Cry 5 – Help Me Faith | Far Cry 5 – Help Me Faith | |
Far Cry 5 – When The Morning Lights Shines In (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Far from the Madding Crowd – End Credits (Craig Armstrong) | ||
Farm Boy FF VII (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Fats Domino Little Richard Raised On Rock and Roll Songbook |
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Fats Waller – Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Guitar Tablature TABs |
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Fats Waller – Bach Up To Me Jazz piano Transcription | Fats Waller – Bach Up To Me Jazz piano Transcription | |
Fats Waller – Bach Up To Me Jazz Piano Transcription.mscz | ||
Fats Waller – Bach up to me |
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Fats Waller – Honeysuckle Rose |
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Fats Waller – Stride The Music Of Fats Waller (book) |
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Fats Waller Album Of Fats Waller The Mills |
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Fats Waller Baby Oh Where Can You Be |
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Fats Waller For Piano |
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FATS WALLER PIANO |
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Fats Waller Original Piano Conceptions 1 |
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Fats Waller Original Piano Conceptions 1 contents |
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Fats Waller The Cheerful Little Earful (Book) |
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Fats Waller The Music Makers |
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Fauré Cantique De Jean Racine, Op. 11 |
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Fauré Dolly Suite, Op. 56 (Trans. Cortot Solo Piano) |
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Fauré Gabriel In Paradisum Piano & Organ Transcription |
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Fauré – Cantique De Jean Racine Op. 11 Piano Solo Arr. (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Fauré – Cantique de Jean Racine Op. 11 Piano Solo arrangement |
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Fauré – Cantique De Jean Racine Op. 11 Piano Solo Transcription By Ruoshi Sun | Fauré – Cantique De Jean Racine Op. 11 Piano Solo Transcription By Ruoshi Sun | |
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Fauré – Pelleas et Melisande Op. 80 Suite arr. piano- No. 3 – Sicilienne | ||
Fauré 2 Songs Op. 27 | Fauré 2 songs | |
Fauré Gabriel Cantique de Jean Racine trans. piano solo |
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Fauré Op. 11 Cantique de Jean Racine choeur satb organ or piano | ||
Fauré Pelleas et Melisande Op. 80 Suite arr. piano- No. 1 – Prélude | Faure Pelleas et Melisande Op. 80 Prélude | |
Fauré Pelleas et Melisande Op. 80 Suite arr. piano- No. 4 – La mort de Melisande | ||
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Fauré Pie Jesu | ||
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Faure Pie Jesu Guitar TABs arr. | Faure Pie Jesu Guitar TABs arr. | |
Fauré-Pelleas et Mélisande,Op.80 (trans.Roger-Ducasse-piano 4hands) |
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Favorite Classic Melodies – Level 1 James Bastien (Very Easy Piano) |
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Favorite Classic Melodies – Level 1 James Bastien |
Favorite Classic Melodies – Level 2 James Bastien (Easy Piano) |
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Favorite Classic Melodies – Level 2 James Bastien |
Favorite Jazz For Solo Piano arr. by Tom Roed |
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Favorite Jazz solo piano |
Favorite Pop Piano Solos 27 Hits, Standards & Themes |
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Favorite Pop Piano Solos 27 Hits, Standards & Themes |
Fazil Say – Black earth Piano Solo |
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Feist – Now At Last | ||
Felipe Villanueva – Vals Poetico arr. for Guitar |
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Felipe Villanueva – Vals Poetico para Piano |
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Felix Jaehn – Ain’t Nobody (Loves Me Better) Piano Solo arr. |
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Felix Jaehn – Ain’t Nobody (Loves Me Better) Sheet Music (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Ferdie Grofé – Grand Canyon Suite piano solo arr. sheet music |
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Ferdie Grofé – The Cyclone (piano solo sheet music) |
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Fergie The Dutchess songbook piano-vocal-guitar |
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Fernando Sor 20 Études – Estudios |
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Fernando Sor 30 Etudes – Estudios De Guitarra |
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Fernando Sor Método Completo De Guitarra (Español-Spanish) |
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Fernando Sor Obras Completas |
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FF X-2 Paine’s Theme | ||
Fibich Poem (Poemat) | Fibich Poem | |
Fibich Moods Impressions and Souvenirs Op 47 Book 1 | Fibich Moods Impressions and Souvenirs | |
Field 18 Nocturnes (Ed. Peters) |
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Fifty Years Experience of Pianoforte Teaching and Playing (Piano) Book by Oscar Beringer |
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Film Favorites Piano (solos and Band arrangements) |
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Film Favorites Piano sheet music book |
Film Music A History 2009 by James Wierzbicki |
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Film Music for Solo Piano |
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Film Music for Solo Piano |
Film Themes Of The Nineties Songbook |
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Film Themes Piano Solos Songbook |
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Film Themes Piano Solos Songbook |
FILMTUNES AND ACTION Film Tunes Klavier Und Keyboard (How to Play)Book by Peter Lautscher |
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Film tunes |
Final Fantasy – Prelude | Final Fantasy – Prelude | |
Final Fantasy – Symphony (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Final Fantasy Guitar Solo and TAB Collection |
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Final Fantasy I – II – III Piano Collections |
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