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: The Horace Silver Collection 1952-56 (CD1)
Artist: Horace Silver
Title: Serenade to a Soul Sister (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition) [Remastered]
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz
Title: Blowin' the Blues Away (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered)
Artist: Horace Silver
Genre: Jazz
Collections
Title: The Best Latin Jazz Album In The World... Ever! (CD2)
Genre: Latin
Title: Funky Jazz Keyboard
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Jazz Classics & Greatest Jazz Hits (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Legendary Funky Jazz
Title: Legendary Hard Bop
Title: La Boîte Noire De Radio Nova 1965
Genre: Rock, Reggae, Latin, Theatre/Soundtrack, Funk
Title: Soul Jazz Trumpet
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Playlist - Soul
Title: Blue Note Trip Vol. 7: Birds & Beats (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz - 110 Original Hits (CD1)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Soul Cargo (1994-1997)
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Funk
Title: Relax With Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Massive Hits! (Jazz) (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 50 Soul Jazz Classics
Title: Trip Tease Vol. 3 (After Hours)
Genre: Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: 50 Shades Of Jazz
Genre: Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Smooth Jazz
Title: Blue Note Plays Rodgers & Hart
Genre: Jazz
Title: Five Star Latin Jazz 2016
Genre: Jazz
Title: Summer Night Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Everbody Loves The Sunshine: Happy Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Summery Jazz 2016
Title: Light Jazz Classics
Genre: Chill Out, Jazz, Vocal Jazz, Lounge, Bossanova
Title: Afro Jazz: Africa Inspires Jazz
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz Passion
Genre: Jazz
Title: Wanted Jazz, Vol. 1 And 2: From Diggers To Music Lovers
Genre: Jazz
Title: Bossa Nova For Beginners
Title: Blue Note Records: Beyond The Notes
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Greatest Jazz Icons 2020 (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: All Time Jazz Hits
Genre: Jazz
Title: Gran Concerto Jazz (All Tracks Remastered)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Hits - The Best Jazz (CD2)
Genre: Jazz
Title: 100 Hits - The Best Jazz (CD3)
Genre: Jazz
Title: Bring Jazz To Life
Genre: Jazz
Title: Hi-Res Masters: Jazz Essentials
Genre: Jazz
Title: Jazz For Kids
Genre: Jazz
Title: Confess, Fletch (Original Soundtrack)
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
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