Horace Silver

Horace Silver is a Pianiste and Compositeur of Jazz. Influenced by the Blues, the Gospel and the Rythm and blues, it is one of the major figures of the current Hard bop and the Soul jazz.

Biography

Horace Silver was born the September 2nd 1928 with Norwalk (Connecticut) with the the United States from a father course-verdien. After having studied the Piano and the Saxophone, it is engaged in 1950 by Stan Getz. It is in its orchestra that he affirms himself like Compositeur Bebop. He works then with Miles Davis, Milt Jackson, Lester Young and Coleman Hawkins. He carries out the first recordings under his name at the sides of the Saxophoniste Lou Donaldson in 1952.

In 1953 it founds with the Batteur Art Blakey the quintet of the Jazz Messengers thus marking the entry in the era of the Hard bop.

In the Years 1980, it tries to found its own label “Silveto”, but this one is a failure.

Style

Its play of very percussif piano and its direction of the amazing swing do of it one of the founders of the jazz " funky". But behind the cheerfulness and the sophistication of its topics often an intense melancholy tinted of nostalgia hides.

Discography

with Art Blakey

  • 1954 : has night At Birdland

with the Jazz Messengers

  • 1955 : At the coffee Bohemia

with Sony Rollins

with Dee Dee Bridgewater

  • 1995 : Coils And Peace: In Tribute To Horace Silver

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