Horace Silver

Genres:	Jazz • Music Videos & Concerts
Descriptive "tags":	jazz • piano • hard bop • jazz piano • bebop
Decades Active:	1950s • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	IMDb • Official Homepage • Wikipedia

Biography

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva, 2 September 1928, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. Silver studied piano and tenor saxophone at school, settling on the former instrument for his professional career. Early influences included Portuguese folk music (from his father), blues and bop. He formed a trio for local gigs which included backing visiting musicians. One such visitor, Stan Getz, was sufficiently impressed to take the trio on the road with him in 1950. The following year Silver settled in New York, playing regularly at Birdland and other leading venues. In 1952, he began a long-lasting association with Blue Note Records, recording under his own name and with other leaders. In 1953, he formed a band named the Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey, who later adopted the name for all his own groups. By 1956 Silver was leading his own quintet, exploring the reaches of bop and becoming a founding father of the hard bop movement. Silver’s line-up - trumpet, tenor saxophone,...

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