Horace Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader, exemplary performer of what came to be called the hard bop style of the 1950s and ’60s. The style was an extension of bebop, with elements of rhythm and blues, gospel, and Latin-American music added.

2014年6月18日 · Horace Silver originally did Sweet Sweetie Dee, Adjustment, New York Lament, Silver's Serenade and other songs. Horace Silver wrote Señor Blues, Peace, Peace, Doodlin' and other songs.

2022年8月29日 · In his sleeve note for the audio restored Horace Silver album Live New York Revisited (ezz-thetics, 2022), British writer Brian Morton cut to the chase. "[Silver]'s only mistake," he wrote, "was to smile while he was playing... a challenge to the notion that jazz should be deadly serious and played with a pained rictus."

2014年6月18日 · One of the leading composers and pioneers of hard bop, plus a pianist who blended vintage R&B, gospel, blues, and Caribbean elements into jazz.

2014年6月19日 · Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and bandleader who was one of the most popular and influential jazz musicians of the 1950s and ’60s, died on Wednesday at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y....

2014年6月18日 · Horace Silver was the heart of the hard bop era, helping to form the influential Jazz Messengers and composing many blues and gospel-flavored songs that have become part of the jazz canon, including "Lonely Woman," "Song For My Father," "Señor Blues," "The Preacher," "Nica's Dream," and "Peace."

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at school in Connecticut, Silver got his break on piano when his trio was recruited by Stan Getz in 1950.

In 1956, a teenaged Louis Hayes journeyed from his hometown of Detroit to New York City on the recommendation of bassist Doug Watkins to play drums for legendary hard-bop pianist, composer and bandleader Horace Silver.

2014年6月18日 · Pianist Horace Silver, whose potent and catchy combination of blues, funk and Latin sounds shifted the jazz landscape in the 1950s and '60s, died Wednesday morning at his home in New Rochelle,...

2024年2月26日 · Famous for his contribution to the hard bop style of jazz which electrified the music scene in the 1950s, pianist Horace Silver played a central role in the rise to dominance of Blue Note records.