Jazz Articles about Horace Silver

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Album Review

Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins: Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited

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by Stefano Merighi
April 28, 2026

Negli anni Cinquanta il jazz era assai potente e si rafforzava anche in virtù di un'attrazione magnetica che ne avvicinava i protagonisti, individualisti sì ma anche sedotti dalle possibilità di avventure comuni. Tale magnetismo si è spesso concretizzato tra le figure torreggianti di Thelonious Monk e di Sonny Rollins. Questo CD della ezz-thetics ricostruisce la loro frequentazione nel periodo di un lustro, da quando Monk era ancora una sorta di reietto per il music business, e Rollins un ...

Radio & Podcasts

Horace Silver, Neil Gray, Ted Rosenthal, Aretha Tillotson and more

by Benjamin Boddie
November 6, 2025

Today's Music--Right Now! Fantastic music by Horace Silver, Neil Gray, Ted Rosenthal, Tierney Sutton, Aretha Tillotson, Andy Nevala, The Flying Horse Big Band, Jen Allen, Johnathan Blake, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, Socrates Garcia, James Danderfer, Thom Rotella, Brad Mehldau, Yoko Yates, Charles Lloyd, Alberto Pibiri, Lori Williams, Sean Mason, Steve Rosenbloom, Paul Cornish, Don Was, Nicholas Payton, Christian McBride, Steven Oquendo, Caelan Cardello, Susan Krebs, Jamile, Christopher McBride, Baltimore Jazz Collective, and more. Playlist Horace Silver “Song For My Father" ...

Radio & Podcasts

Stylings of Silver, Nods to Nica, Quartet of Trios

by David Brown
November 7, 2024

This week, our featured artist is pianist/composer Horace Silver. We'll check out a number of his compositions as performed by Ran Blake, Shirley Scott , Tommy Flanagan, Gigi Gryce and Silver himself. From there we will check out works written in homage to the Baroness Panonnica de Koenigswarter--known as Nica--a patron, supporter and friend to many musicians in golden age of jazz. We'll also hear recent works form the Kris Davis Trio, John Chin Trio, Anna Webber Trio, Tyshawn Sorey ...

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Designing Jazz: The Iconic Album Covers of Reid Miles

by Kristine England
August 29, 2024

Blue Note Records has embodied the best jazz has to offer for over 80 years. With a catalog of greats, from Horace Silver, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lee Morgan, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Herbie Hancock, Dexter Gordon and countless others from the bop and post-bop eras, to the funky recordings that hip-hop artists have repeatedly sampled, to its current roster, the label remains at the forefront of the genre. It wasn't just the music that set the label ...

Readers Poll Results

The Mount Rushmore of Hard Bop

by Michael Ricci
May 18, 2024

Member votes were tabulated and the top four vote-getters represent the Mount Rushmore of hard bop. Thank you to everyone who voted. 1Horace Silver2Art Blakey3Lee Morgan4Hank Mobley5John Coltrane6Miles Davis7Sonny Rollins8Freddie Hubbard9Cannonball Adderley10Clifford Brown11Wayne Shorter12Thelonious Monk13Max Roach14Charlie Parker15Dexter Gordon16Dizzy Gillespie17Charles Mingus18Kenny Dorham19Jackie McLean20Bobby Timmons21Benny Golson22Joe Henderson23Curtis Fuller24Paul Chambers25McCoy Tyner26Herbie Hancock27Jimmy Smith28Bud Powell29Donald Byrd30Philly Joe Jones31Sonny Clark32Grant Green33Bill Evans34Red Garland35Wes Montgomery36Ron Carter37Art Farmer38Art Pepper39Bobby Hutcherson40Lou Donaldson41Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers42Duke Ellington43Billie Holiday44Ahmad Jamal45Eric Dolphy46Cedar Walton47Michael Brecker48Phil Woods49Roy Hargrove50Elvin ...

Album Review

Horace Silver: Live New York Revisited

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by Stefano Merighi
March 9, 2023

Benchè il profilo artistico di Horace Silver sia preso a modello in modo paradigmatico per definire lo stile hard bop nel jazz moderno, è altresì interessante notare come Silver, sin dalle sue prime uscite, abbia sempre cercato di evitare gli schemi predeterminati che soprattutto le etichette discografiche cercavano di replicare dopo aver trovato la formula del successo. Ad esempio, Silver non amava le scalette miste, quelle cioè che infilavano d'abitudine uno standard proveniente da Tin Pan Alley all'interno di un ...

Radio & Podcasts

A Silver Set, A Bit of Brubeck + Recent Releases

by David Brown
October 18, 2022

This week, a welcome adventure in music! Jazz is Dead, A bluesy Horace Silver set, a bit of Brubeck (pre-classic quartet) plus recent releases form Daniel Carter, Billy Drummond, Sasha Berliner, Walt Weiskopf, and more. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 00:30 Ali Shaheed Muhammad & Adrian Younge “Summer Solstice" from Katalyst—Jazz Is Dead 13 (Jazz Is Dead ) 02:00 Yusef Lateef “In The Evening" from The Complete Yusef Lateef (Atlantic ) ...