Pictured here is one of Horace Silver's best-known albums, 'Song for My Father' from 1964.
Official Horace Silver website:
horacesilver.com
Excellent Horace Silver Tribute site: hardbop.tripod.silver
Blue Note Horace Silver page: bluenote.horacesilver
Happy Birthday to Horace Silver born on this day in 1928 in Norway, Connecticut. Horace Silver became a Jazz pianist, bandleader and composer who initially lead the Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey before forming his own band in 1956. Horace Silver is considered a pioneer of the Hard Bop style. He attracted to his band the talents of Art Farmer, Donald Byrd, and Blue Mitchell, Billy Cobham, among many others.
Some of his other well known compositions you will hear on Jazz Stations include:
Doodlin'
The Preacher
Nica's Dream
Opus de Funk
Safari
Senor Blues
Sister Sadie
Blowin' the Blues Away
Quicksilver
The Dragon Lady
Nutville
Horacescope
Ecaroh
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