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Horace Silver

Born: Sep 2, 1928 in Norwalk, CT

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Genre: Jazz

Styles: Soul-Jazz, Fusion, Hard Bop, Mainstream Jazz, Modal Music, Post-Bop

Biography: 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 ...Read full biography

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Song For My Father

Released: 1964

Label: Blue Note

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One of Blue Note's greatest mainstream hard bop dates, Song for My Father is Horace Silver's signature LP and the peak of a discography already studded with classics. Silver was always a master at balancing ...Read full review

Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet

Released: 1959

Label: Blue Note Japan

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Finger Poppin' was the first album Horace Silver recorded with the most celebrated version of his quintet, which featured trumpeter Blue Mitchell, tenor saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor, and ...Read full review

More Horace Silver albums: Main Albums (46), Compilations (29), DVD/Video (1)

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