Horace Silver
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Biography
[Edit]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.
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.
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. 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.
Title: Complete Blue Note Sessions With Art Blakey (Bonus Track Version)
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Horace Silver Collection 1952-56 (CD2)
Artist: Horace Silver
Title: The Stylings of Silver (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz
Title: Horace Silver Trio (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz
Title: 12 Classic Albums: 1953 - 1962 (CD1)
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz, Classical, Piano music
Title: 12 Classic Albums: 1953 - 1962 (CD2)
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz, Classical, Piano music
Title: Further Explorations
Artist: Art Farmer, Horace Silver, Clifford Jordan, Louis Hayes, Teddy Kotick
Genre:
Title: Blowin' the Blues Away (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz
Collections
Title: Jukebox Favourites - Jazz Piano
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note Trip 9: Heat Up / Simmer Down By DJ Maestro
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz: Summer Love
Genre: Jazz
Title: Rewound & Reworked - Jazz Remixes, Vol. 1
Genre: Electronica, Jazz
Title: Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music
Genre: Jazz
Title: Mellow Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: A Jazzy Christmas and a Funky New Year
Genre:
Title: Jazz Explosion - The Greats Volume Ten
Genre: Jazz
Title: Hard Swingin' Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note 75
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note 101: Jazz Standards
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazzin' the 50'S
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Most Influential Jazz Bassists
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note Remixed - 50 Of the Best
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Masters: 1970's
Genre: Jazz
Title: Top Piano Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Shh! - 50's Jazz Instrumentals
Genre: Jazz
Title: Le Meilleur du Jazz: Latin Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: African Inspired Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: Bottle Rocket (Short Film Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Best of Jazz Piano
Genre: Jazz
Title: 101 Vintage Jazz Hits
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Break Beats - 50 of the Best
Genre: Jazz
Title: High Fidelity Jazz: Groove Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Pop Jazz Keyboards
Genre: Jazz
Title: Learning Jazz Piano
Genre: Jazz
Title: Take the A Train - New York Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Horace Silver Songbook
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note 101: A Jazz Introduction
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz With a Beat
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Blues R&B! Vol. 2
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazzin' the 70'S
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz for a Summer Day
Genre: Jazz
Title: Soul Cargo Volume 3
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Pop
Title: Hard Bop Happenings
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Story 5
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Latin Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: The New Groove: The Blue Note Remix Project, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blue Note 101: Cocktail Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Basic Boogaloo and Greasy Grooves
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Café / Jazz Cafe
Genre: Jazz
Title: High Fidelity Jazz: Deep Soul Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: High Fidelity Jazz: Soul Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: High Fidelity Jazz: Jazz Samba
Genre: Jazz
Title: Ken Burns Jazz - The Story of America's Music
Genre: Jazz
Title: Swing Call (Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Giants of Jazz: Piano
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Most Influential Jazz Pianists
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Piano Chill Out
Genre: Jazz
Title: Great Jazz Trumpets
Genre: Jazz
Title: High Fidelity Jazz: Connoisseur
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Best of Blue Note
Genre: Jazz
Title: 20 Century Jazz Masters
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Greatest Jazz Songwriters
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100% Latin Jazz
Genre: Latin
Title: All Time Greatest Jazz Hits
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Greatest Bossa Nova
Genre: Jazz
Title: Essential Jazz Piano
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Most Influential Jazz Bassists
Genre: Jazz
Title: The Most Amazing Jazz Performances
Genre: Jazz
Title: Soul Jazz Highlights
Genre: Jazz
Title: Classic Break Beat Samples - The Original Songs!
Genre: Jazz
Title: Hard Bop Keys
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz: Lounge Exotica
Genre: Jazz
Title: 50 Traditional Jazz Standards, Vol. 1
Genre: Jazz
Title: I Got Rhythm - Godfathers of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Perdido. For the love of Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Featuring albums
Title: Sonny Stitt Plays Arrangements from the Pen of Johnny Richards and Quincy Jones
Artist: Sonny Stitt
Genre: Jazz
Title: Rewound & Reworked - Jazz Remixes Vol. 1
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Jazz, Dancefloor
Title: Blue Note Trip Jazzanova: Lookin' Back/Movin' On
Artist: Various Artists
Genre: Electronica, Dancefloor