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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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Gillock , William – Flamenco Piano Solo |
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Gillock , William – Holiday In Paris Piano Solo |
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Gillock, William – New Orleans Nightfall Pano Solo |
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Gillock, William 24 Romantic Pieces |
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Gillock, William Lyric Preludes In Romantic Style |
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Ginastera-Tres Piezas 3 Criolla | ||
Ginastera, Alberto Ginastera Tres Piezas Para Piano |
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Ginastera, Alberto Ginastera 12 American Preludes Doce Preludios Americanos | Ginastera, Alberto Ginastera 12 American Preludes Doce Preludios Americanos | |
Ginastera, Alberto Ginastera Danzas Argentinas Opus 2 |
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Ginastera, Alberto Ginastera Milonga |
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Ginastera, Alberto Ginastera Suite De Dana Criollas Op 15 Ginastera |
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Gino Vannelli – Brother to Brother songbook |
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Gino Vannelli – Brother to Brother songbook |
Gino Vannelli Songbook Volume I Thirty Complete Scores |
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Gino Vannelli Songbook Volume I Thirty Complete Scores |
Giochi infantili (La Sconosciuta OST) Ennio Morricone | ||
Giorgia Greatest Hits – guitar |
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Giorgia Greatest Hits – guitar |
Girl from Ipanema (Antonio Carlos Jobim) | ||
Gismonti, Egberto – Complete songbook (piano vocal) |
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Gismonti, Egberto – Songbook |
Gismonti, Egberto – Sete Aneis (guitar) | Gismonti, Egberto – Sete Aneis (guitar) | |
Giveon – Heartbreak Anniversary (Piano solo sheet music) |
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Giya Kancheli – When Almonds Blossomed |
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Glad Tidings Of Great Joy (Christmas Traditional) For Two Pianos Or Piano And Voices |
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Glad Tidings Of Great Joy (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Gladiator – Now we are free (Hans Zimmer) | ||
Glee (The Music) Showstoppers Songbook 3 |
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Glee (The Music) Shwstoppers Songbook 3 |
Glen Miller Joe Garland – In The Mood (Piano Solo arr.) | Glen Miller Joe Garland – In The Mood (Piano Solo arr.) | |
Glen Miller Joe Garland – In The Mood (Piano Solo arr.).mscz | ||
Glenn Meets Wolfgang (Music from Sonate facile Mozart) by Jef Penders |
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Glenn Miler – Bach A La Jazz | Glenn Miler – Bach A La Jazz | |
Glenn Miller – Moonlight Serenade | Glenn Miller – Moonlight Serenade | |
Glenn Miller In The Mood Piano and vocal song by Joe Garland | Glenn Miller In The Mood Piano and vocal song by Joe Garland | |
Glenn Miller Medley arr. by Naohiro Iwai |
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Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade (Lead sheet) | Glenn Miller Moonlight Serenade | |
Glenn Miller The Songbook Of Glenn Miller |
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Gli Insuperabili Gruppi Degli Anni 60 sheet music collection 0f the 60s |
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Gli Insuperabili Gruppi Degli Anni 60 sheet music collection 0f the 60s |
Glinka – The Lark from A Farewell to Saint Petersburg No. 10 (Piano Solo arr.) | Glinka – The Lark from A Farewell to Saint Petersburg No. 10 (Piano Solo arr.) | |
Glinka – The Lark From A Farewell To Saint Petersburg No. 10 (Piano Solo Arr.) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Glinka Nocturne in Eb Major | Glinka_-_Nocturne_in_Eb_Major | |
Glinka Nocturne La Séparation |
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Glinka Valse Fantaisie Original version for Piano (1839) |
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Gloria Estefan – Anything For You | ||
Gloria Estefan – Everlasting Love | ||
Gloria Estefan – I Will Survive | ||
Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine Best Of Piano Vocal Guitar chords |
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Gloria Estefan And Miami Sound Machine Best Of Piano Vocal Guitar chords |
Gloria Gaynor – I Will Survive | ||
Gluck Melody from Orfeo (piano arr. Sgambati) |
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Gluck Melody from Orfeo piano transcr. Siloti | ||
Gluck Melody from Orpheus (arr. Bauer) | ||
Gluck-Kempff – Ballet Music from ‘Orpheus und Euridike’ – Arr. Piano solo | ||
Glück, das mir verblieb (Marietta’s Lied) |
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Gnattali, Radames – Concerto no. 4 arr. for guitar and piano |
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Go West – True Colors | ||
Gocce di memoria (Giorgia) | ||
Godspell – Day By Day | ||
GODSPELL – The Musical by Stephen Schwartz |
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Golden Oldies (The 16 most beautiful Pop Classics) by Carsten Gerlitz |
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Golden Slumbers – Carry that Weight – The End (Beatles) | ||
Golden Wind Main Piano Theme from Jojo’s Bizarrre Adventure |
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Goldsmith The Omen Ave Satani |
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Goldsmith – The Pipers Dreams (The Omen) sheet music pdf | GOLDSMITH THE PIPER DREAMS THE OMEN SHEET MUSIC PDF | |
Gone 1926 Benny Davis And Joe Burke Jazz Standard (Vintage sheet music) |
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Gonzales – Chilly Gonzales Solo Piano II |
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Gonzales – Chilly Gonzales Solo Piano II |
Gonzales – Prelude To A Feud Chilly Gonzales |
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Gonzales The Tourist |
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Gonzales, Chilly – Solo Piano Vol 1 and 2 |
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Gonzales, Chilly – Solo Piano Vol 1 and 2 |
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris | ||
Good enough (Evanescence) | ||
Good old-fashioned lover boy (Queen) | ||
Goodbye Lenin! – Yann Tiersen |
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Goodbye Lenin! – Yann Tiersen |
Goodbyes – Eat Pray Love OST (Dario Marianelli) | ||
Goratie – Despair |
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Gordon’s Enlarged And Improved Edition Of Hunten’s Celebrated Piano Forte School (By Franz Hünten) (1867) |
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Gospel – Jazz Piano Solos volume 33 |
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Gospel – Jazz Piano Solos volume 33 |
Gospel Fake Book The Praise and Worship Fake Book |
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Gospel Piano (You can teach yourself) |
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Gospel Piano Keyboard Style Series |
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Gospel Piano Hal Leonard Keyboard Style Series |
Gospel Riffs God Would Love To Hear Andrew D Gordon |
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Gossip – Heavey Cross sheet music (with Lyrics) | Gossip – Heavey Cross sheet music with Lyrics | |
Gounod – Bach Ave Maria Méditation Sur Le 1er Prélude De J. S. Bach, Bwv 846 Guitar Arr. By Tarrega | Gounod – Bach Ave Maria Méditation Sur Le 1er Prélude De J. S. Bach, Bwv 846 Guitar Arr. By Tarrega | |
Gounod – Bach Ave Maria Méditation Sur Le 1er Prélude De J. S. Bach, Bwv 846 Piano Solo Arr | Gounod – Bach Ave Maria Méditation Sur Le 1er Prélude De J. S. Bach, Bwv 846 Piano Solo Arr | |
Gounod – Funeral March Of A Marionette Easy Piano Solo arr Alfred Hitchcock Presents Theme |
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Gounod – Funeral_March_Of_A_Marionette Easy Piano Solo arr..mscz | ||
Grade 5 Piano Abrsm 2021-2022 Changing Times (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Gramofon – Waltz (Eugen Doga) | ||
Granada (Agustín Lara) | ||
Granados Goyescas |
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Granados – Danzas Españolas (Piano partitura) |
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Granados – Cuentos De La Juventud (Partitura) |
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Granados – Escenas Poeticas, Book 1 |
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Granados – La Maja de Goya (Guitarra – Guitar arr.) |
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Granados – Pieces for guitar Stücke für Gitarre (Guitarra) |
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Granados – Valses Poéticos (Partitura completa para piano) |
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Granados 6 Goyescas |
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Granados, Enrique – El Mirar de la Maja (Piano and voice) | Granados, Enrique – El Mirar de la Maja (Piano and voice) | |
Granados, Manuel – Manual Didactico De La Guitarra Flamenca 1 Español (Spanish) |
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Granados, Manuel – Manual Didactico De La Guitarra Flamenca 1 Español (Spanish) |
Grand Designs Theme – David Lowe |
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Grand Solos For Piano Book 5 (Melody Bober Piano Library) 9 pieces for intermediate pianists | Grand Solos For Piano Book 5 (Melody Bober Piano Library) 9 pieces for intermediate pianists | |
Grande Amore (Il Volo) | ||
Grande grande grande (Mina) | ||
Grant Green – Idle Moments (Guitar Solo Transcription) |
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Grant Green It Aint Necessarily So Guitar Solo Transcription |
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Grant Green Moon River Guitar Solo Transcription |
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Grazyna Bacewicz Piano Sonata No. 2 |
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Grease 1994 The Musical Piano conductor Score |
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Grease 1994 Score |
Grease – Original Soundtrack (Piano & Guitar Songbook) |
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Grease – Orginal Soundtrack (Piano & Guitar Songbook) |
Grease – Summer Nights | ||
Great ’50s Rock (Strum It Guitar) Sheet Music Songbook |
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Great ’50s Rock (Strum It Guitar) Sheet Music Songbook |
Great Composers And Their Work (By Louis Charles Elson) (1898) |
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Great Contemporary Pianists Speak For Themselves (Elyse Mach) Book |
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Great Film Scores 37 themes by 17 composers Piano Solo sheet music |
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Great Film Scores 37 themes by 17 composers Piano Solo sheet music |
Great Guitar Solo Tabs |
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Great Guitar Solo Tabs contents |
Great Irish Songs Ballads Volume 1 – piano, vocal, guitar [Waltons 1988 |
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Great Irish Songs Ballads Volume 1 – piano, vocal, guitar |
Great Irish Songs Ballads Volume 2 – piano vocal guitar [Waltons 1988 |
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Great Irish Songs Ballads Volume 2 |
Great Jazz Piano Solos – Book 1 |
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Great Jazz Piano Solos – Book 1 |
Great Jazz Piano Solos – Book 2 |
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Great Jazz Piano Solos – Book 2 |
Great Movie Themes For Classical Guitar |
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Great Movie Themes For Classical Guitar |
Great Music Of The 20th Century Course Guidebook (Prof. Robert Greenberg) The Great Courses |
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Great Music of the 20th Century |
Great Musicians Eyewitness (eBook) Biography book |
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Great Pianists On Piano Playing – Study Talks With Foremost Virtuosos (By James Francis Cooke) (1917) |
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Great Piano Christmas Hits (piano solo arrangements by Dan Coates) |
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Great Piano Christmas Hits (piano solo arrangements by Dan Coates) |
Great Piano Composers Of The Classical Era (Book) Improve your Classical playing |
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