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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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Theodore Shapiro Diary Of A Wimpy Kid – Main Titles |
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Theodore Shapiro Louder Than Thunder The Devil Wears Prada Theme Piano Solo Arr. |
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Theodore Shapiro Severance Main Theme |
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Theodore Shapiro Suite from The Devil Wears Prada Theme Piano Solo |
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Theory Essentials An Integrated Approach To Harmony, Ear Training, And Keyboard Skills (Connie E. Mayfield) Book |
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Thierry Tisserand Medley guitare seule solo guitar |
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Thierry Tisserand Medley guitare seule solo guitar |
Thinking In Jazz The Infinite Art of Improvisation Berliner, Paul (Book) 1994 |
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This Is Halloween Easy Piano |
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This Is Us Songbook Selections From The Television Series Soundtrack |
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This Land Is Your Land (Guitar Chords) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
This Land Is Your Land (Musescore File).mscz | ||
This Little Light of Mine (African-American Spiritual) from The Best Children’s Songs Ever (Easy Piano) | This Little Light of Mine (African-American Spiritual) from The Best Children’s Songs Ever (Easy Piano) | |
This Little Light of Mine (African-American Spiritual) from The Best Children’s Songs Ever (Easy Piano) Musescore file.mscz | ||
Thomas Attwood Allegro First Movement From Sonatina No. 1 In G (Trinity Grade 2 Piano) |
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Thomas Attwood – Allegro – First Movement from Sonatina No. 1 in G (Trinity Grade 2 Piano).mscz | ||
Thomas Bergersen Victory Two Steps From Hell Piano Solo | Thomas Bergersen Victory Two Steps From Hell Piano Solo | |
Thomas Johnson READ AND PLAY New Series Grades II, III and IV Piano |
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Thomas Newman – Any Other Name (American Beauty Theme) | Thomas-Newman-Any-Other-Name-American-Beauty 1st page | |
Thomas Newman – Road To Perdition – Road To Chicago |
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Thomas Newman – Road To Perdition (Piano Solo) |
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Thomas Newman – Road To Perdition Theme – Guitar Tabs |
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Thomas Newman – The Horse Whisperer – Montana | Thomas Newman – The Horse Whisperer – Montana | |
Thomas Newman – The Horse Whisperer – Voice Of God | Thomas Newman – The Horsewisperer – Voice Of God | |
Thomas Newman – The Shawshank Redemption – Stoic Theme |
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Thomas Newman Forbidden Love (Meet Joe Black) | ||
Those Were The Days (Musescore File).mscz | ||
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Three Days Grace – Never Too Late | ||
Tidus And Yuna’s Theme (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Tifa’s Theme (Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections) |
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Tifa’s Theme Final Fantasy Vii Piano Collections (Musescore File).mscz | ||
Tim Minchin – Miracle (Matilda the Musical) | Tim Minchin – Miracle (Matilda the Musical) | |
Tim Minchin – Prejudice (Musical Comedy) Piano Sheet Music | Tim Minchin – Prejudice (Musical Comedy) Piano Sheet Music | |
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Improvising Blues Piano (with audio Mp3) |
Tim Richards – Exploring Jazz Piano Vol. 1 (with MP3 audio tracks) |
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Tim Richards Exploring Jazz Piano 1 |
Tim Richards – Exploring Jazz Piano Vol. 2 (with MP3 audio tracks) |
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Exploring jazz piano 2 |
Tim Richards – Exploring Latin Piano (with audio MP3) |
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Tim Richards – Exploring Latin Piano |
Tim Smith Cardiacs All Spectacular Piano Solo |
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Tim Smith Cardiacs Savour Piano Solo |
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Timbaland – Way I Are | ||
Time (Inception) – Hans Zimmer – Solo Piano (Musescore File).mscz | ||
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Timothy Brown – Daydreaming |
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Timothy Brown – Lyric Expressions Solo Piano |
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Timothy Brown – Soliloquy |
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Timothy Brown Grand Waltz in Ab Major Intermediate Piano |
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Tina Arena – Burn | ||
Tina Turner – I, Tina (Book) |
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Tina Turner – The Best Of Simply The Best Piano Vocal guitar Chords |
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Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It | Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It | |
Tina Turner – What’s Love Got To Do With It.mscz | ||
Tina Turner Goldeneye (James Bond frilm Theme) |
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Titanic – My Heart Will Go On (James Horner) |
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Titanic – James Horner Full songbook |
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Titanic – James Horner |
Titanic Movie Theme – My Heart Will Go On – Piano Guitar Vocals | Titanic Movie Theme – My HeArt Will Go On – Piano Guitar Vocals | |
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To love you more (Celine Dion) | ||
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To Zanarkand (Final Fantasy X) (Musescore File).mscz | ||
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TOCH, E. – La Melodía(Spanish) 1923 |
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Todays Folk Rock Hits Guitar Tablature |
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Tom Jobim Ligia | ||
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Tom Jobim songbook I (Guitar) |
Tom Jobim songbook 2 Guitar (by Almir Chediak) |
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Tom Jobim songbook I (Guitar) |
Tom Jobim songbook 3 Guitar (by Almir Chediak) |
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Tom Jobim songbook I (Guitar) |
Tom Jobim Triste | ||
Tom Jobim Vivo Sonhando | ||
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Tom Kolb – Modes for Guitar |
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Tom Kolb Soloing Strategies for Guitar Licks, tricks, Tones and Tips |
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Tom Turpin The Harlem Rag | Tom Turpin Harlem-Rag | |
Tom Waits -Alice (entire album songbook) Piano-vocal-guitar |
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Tom Waits Anthology |
Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies |
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Tom Waits Beautiful Maladies |
Tom Waits Blood Money |
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Tommy Flint – Best Of Country Guitar Solos with audio MP3 with TABs |
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Tommy Shaw – Boat On The River from Styx |
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Tomorrow (Europe) | ||
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Tomorrowland Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack Piano Solo by Michael Giacchini |
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Tomorrowland Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack Piano Solo by Michael Giacchini |
Tomoya Naka Rainy Song | Tomoya | |
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Toni Braxton – Unbreak My Heart | ||
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Tonight From West Side Story (Leonard Bernstein) Easy Piano Solo Arr. Sheet Music (Musescore File).mscz | ||
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Top Hits Of 2011 |
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TOP HITS 2011 |
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Top Movie Hits SongBook |
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TOP TEN – N°1 |
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Top Ten – N°2 |
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Top Ten – N°2 |
Top Ten 40 (Guitar) |
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Top Ten 43 (Guitar) |
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Top Ten Slow (Guitar) |
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Top Ten Slow (Guitar) |
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Tori Amos – Silent All These Years | ||
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Torna A Surriento Traditional Neapolitan Song By Ernesto De Curtis (Easy Piano Solo With Lyrics In English) |
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Torna a Surriento.mscz | ||
Toshi Ichiyanagi In A Living Memory For Flute Solo |
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Toshifumi Hinata End Title (Tokyo Love Story) |
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Total Guitar – The ultimate scale book |
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