From the perspective of the early 2000s, it is clear that few jazz musicians have 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. (AMG)
01 - Safari
02 - Thou Swell
03 - Yeah
04 - Horacescope (Horoscope)
05 - Prelude To A Kiss
06 - Ecaroh
07 - Quicksilver
08 - Knowledge Box
09 - Opus De Funk
10 - Day In, Day Out
11 - How About You
12 - I Remember You
13 - Silverware
14 - Buhaina
15 - Doodlin'
16 - Creepin' In
17 - Room 608
18 - Stop Time
SAFARI, THOU SWELL, YEAH, HORACESCOPE(HOROSCOPE):
New York, October 9, 1952
Horace Silver Trio
Horace Silver (p) Gene Ramey (b) Art Blakey (d)
PRELUDE TO A KISS, ECAROH, QUICKSILVER, KNOWLEDGE BOX :
New York, October 29, 1952
Horace Silver Trio
Curley Russell (b) replaces Gene Ramey . Rest same.
OPUS DE FUNK, DAY IN- DAY OUT, HOW ABOUT YOU, I REMEMBER YOU, SILVERWARE, BUHAINA :
New York. October 23, 1953
Horace Silver Trio
Percy Heath (b) replaces Curley Russell. Rest same.
DOODLIN', CREEPIN' IN, ROOM 608, STOP TIME :
Hackensack, N.J., November 13, 1954
Horace Silver Quintet
Horace Silver (p) Kenny Dorham (tp) Hank Mobley (ts) Doug Watkins (b) Art Blakey (d)
Label: Sarabandas
Released: 1994
Catalogue: CD 53131
Compression Level: 5
Covers Included (400dpi)
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