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Backgrounder: Horace Silver Trio (1952)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Looking back, we can say now that Horace Silver was way ahead of his time. The pianist not only invented hard bop piano but also funk. All in 1952, two years after being discovered by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz in Hartford, Ct. Silver's first album was a 10-inch LP recorded for Blue Note in October 1952. The recording—New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio)—is astonishing in that Silver unleashed an entirely new approach on the piano that fused ...
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Meredith d'Ambrosio on Horace Silver
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Meredith d’Ambrosio is one of the finest and most distinctive jazz singer-songwriters around today. And she’s a terrific pianist and a superb traditionalist painter. Her artwork is on the covers of all but one of her 17 albums. Most of all, Meredith’s playing and singing style are all her own and deeply intimate. She never mirrored anyone, choosing instead to create a completely new approach to songwriting and singing that emanates from her heart. I first heard her on It’s ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Horace Silver
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Horace Silver's birthday today!
When Horace Silver once wrote out his rules for musical composition (in the liner notes to the 1968 record, Serenade to a Soul Sister), he expounded on the importance of “meaningful simplicity." The pianist could have just as easily been describing his own life. For more than fifty years, Silver has simply written some of the most enduring tunes in jazz while performing them in a distinctively personal style. It's all ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Horace Silver
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Horace Silver's birthday today!
When Horace Silver once wrote out his rules for musical composition (in the liner notes to the 1968 record, Serenade to a Soul Sister), he expounded on the importance of “meaningful simplicity." The pianist could have just as easily been describing his own life. For more than fifty years, Silver has simply written some of the most enduring tunes in jazz while performing them in a distinctively personal style. It's all ...
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Backgrounder: Horace Silver, 'Horace-Scope'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my favorite Horace Silver albums is Horace-Scope. Recorded on July 8 and 9 in 1960, the Horace Silver Quintet at the time consisted of Horace Silver on piano, Blue Mitchell on trumpet, Junior Cook on tenor saxophone, Gene Taylor on bass and Roy Brooks on drums. The tracks are Strollin', Where You At?, Don Newey's Without You, Horace-Scope, Yeah!, Me and My Baby and Nica's Dream. Here's the full album that you can listen to without ads or ...
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Horace Silver: 'Blowin' the Blues Away'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I'm hard-pressed to think of a post-war jazz pianist-composer who was as electrifying and addictive as Horace Silver. Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans are certainly in the pantheon of exceptional player-songwriters. But Silver was really in a class by himself. In addition to being a gorgeous balladeer and a lyrical hard-bop pioneer, he was a penetrating keyboardist who favored intriguing sweet-and-sour chord voicings, and many of his catchy songs are now standards. Most of all, Silver was first to develop ...
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Color Videos: Horace Silver Quintet
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
While writing yesterday, I fell into a Horace Silver groove. Funk meets hard bop, with a twist of Silver's spectacular rhythmic counterpoint and chord voicings. Which sent me onto YouTube to see what was new with Horace. There, I found a bunch of videos that had been colorized. Now you can see and hear them, too. Here are seven Horace Silver color videos: Here's Nutville and Song for My Father, colorized on the Danish TV show Jazz Omkring Midnat, in ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Horace Silver
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Horace Silver's birthday today!
When Horace Silver once wrote out his rules for musical composition (in the liner notes to the 1968 record, Serenade to a Soul Sister), he expounded on the importance of “meaningful simplicity." The pianist could have just as easily been describing his own life. For more than fifty years, Silver has simply written some of the most enduring tunes in jazz while performing them in a distinctively personal style. It's all ...
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