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Horace Silver: The Preacher (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 01, 07

"I can't stand the faggot-type jazz," Horace Silver fumed to Down Beat in 1956, "the jazz with no guts." He didn't na...

Horace Silver: Doodlin' (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 26, 08

From one of the classic hard-bop albums comes Horace Silver's first hit. Take a simple riff, rhythmically displace it...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Opus de Funk (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

Horace Silver came to New York City in 1950 after being hired by Stan Getz. Soon he became much in demand as a sidema...

Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers: Hankerin' (Rating: 86/100) posted in Music April 15, 08

Even though just a year (nearly to the day) had elapsed between Art Blakey's classic recordings with Clifford Brown l...

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By the age of 25 (1944), Pittsburgh-native Art Blakey had already completed stints with Mary Lou Williams and Fletche...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

After the demise of the cooperative group known as The Jazz Messengers (Kenny Dorham, Hank Mobley, Horace Silver, Dou...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Nica's Dream (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music September 01, 08

Some people called her the 'jazz baroness': the Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. But to the jazz greats she was...

Horace Silver: Kissin' Cousins (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

Tom Harrell and Bob Berg were Horace Silver's bright lights in the mid-1970s, and here they were part of an unusual p...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 22, 07

One of the pioneers of the hard-bop movement, pianist Horace Silver composed a number of tunes with infectious rhythm...

Horace Silver: Enchantment (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music January 24, 08

New Mexico invited trouble in 1941 by emblazoning "Land of Enchantment" on their license plates. Enchanted visitors s...

Horace Silver: Cool Eyes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

From the same Horace Silver album as his hit "Señor Blues," "Cool Eyes," with its 32-bar AABA theme, is a delightful ...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver featuring Hank Mobley: My One and Only Love (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music March 06, 08

Horace Silver, the first in a long line of legendary Jazz Messenger pianists, performed on many of the famous early A...

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There are post-Swing Era bandleaders, and then there is Art Blakey. After a brief time spent developing his craft by ...

Horace Silver: Cool Eyes (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music October 25, 07

Six Pieces of Silver marks the hard-bop pianist’s arrival as a legitimate bandleader and bop composer. Assembled fro...

Horace Silver: Serenade to a Teakettle (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

The Hardbop Grandpop, despite its all-star cast, is overall not one of Horace Silver's finest albums; judged by Silve...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Señor Blues (Live at Newport) (Rating: 91/100) posted in Music January 31, 08

I read in the paper the other day that the value of Silver is on the rise. The folks at Blue Note must have taken no...

Horace Silver: Nutville (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

On half of The Cape Verdean Blues, Horace Silver added guest J.J. Johnson to his quintet. This enables us to hear Joh...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues (Rating: 90/100) posted in Music July 17, 09

The music of Horace Silver always referenced and sounded different than most other jazz. His music has a tinge to it ...

Horace Silver: Pretty Eyes (Rating: 94/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

By the time that Horace Silver recorded The Cape Verdean Blues (certainly among his half-dozen best albums), the prec...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Cookin' at the Continental (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

The album Finger Poppin' introduced Horace Silver's longest-lasting front line, Blue Mitchell and Junior Cook, who wo...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music August 27, 08

This is the title track of what is arguably Horace Silver's greatest album, and undoubtedly his biggest hit as well. ...

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Perceptive commentators such as Martin Williams and Bob Blumenthal have written about the creative craftsmanship of...

Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister (Rating: 93/100) posted in Music July 16, 09

I have to be honest, there's not a single Horace Silver song that I don't like. So now that my biases are out front, ...

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