Biography

Pianist and composer Horace Silver was, along with Art Blakey, one of the primary instigators of the hard-bop jazz movement of the 1950s. Silver turned a limited piano technique to his advantage, welding simple but memorable phrases to driving, muscular rhythms, molding a style whose influence has only grown stronger with the years.

Top Tracks

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• All

• Billie's Bounce

• Blue Lights

• Cool Eyes

• Diggin' On Dexter

• Dimples

• Doodlin'

• Forever Is A Long Long Time

• Gregory Is Here

• Home Cookin'

• Horace-scope

• How Long Has This Been Going On?

• Ill Wind

• I'm Aware Of The Animals Within Me

• Liberated Brother

• Lonely Woman

• Metamorphosis

• Mo' Joe

• My One And Only Love

• Next Time I Fall In Love

• Nica's Dream

• Opus De Funk

• Peace

• Prelude To A Kiss

• Psychedelic Sally

• Satisfaction Guaranteed

• Sayonara Blues

• Señor Blues

• Serenade To A Soul Sister

• Shoutin' Out

• Silver's Serenade

• Sister Sadie

• Song For My Father

• Soulville

• Strange Vibes

• Strollin'

• That Healin' Feelin'

• The Cape Verdean Blues

• The Dragon Lady

• The Happy Medium

• The Hardbop Grandpop

• The Jody Grind

• The Kicker

• The Preacher

• The Tokyo Blues

• To Beat Or Not To Beat

• Total Response

• Walk On

• Where Do I Go From Here?

• Won't You Open Up Your Senses

• Yodel Lady Blues

Discography

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• Live at Newport '58

  Blue Note

  2007

• Rockin' with Rachmaninoff

  Bop City Records

  2003

• Jazz Has a Sense of Humor

  GRP / Universal Music

  1999

• A Prescription for the Blues

  Impulse!

  1997

• Hard Bop Grandpop

  Impulse! / GRP

  1996

• Pencil Packin' Papa

  Columbia

  1994

• It's Got to Be Funky

  Columbia / Sony Music Distribution

  1993

• Music to Ease Your Disease

  Silveto

  1988

• On Tour

  Silveto

  1986

• Continuity of Spirit

  Silveto

  1985

• Spiritualizing the Senses

  Silveto

  1983

• There's No Need to Struggle

  Silveto

  1983

• Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres

  Blue Note

  1980

• Silver 'n Percussion

  Blue Note

  1977

• Silver 'n Wood

  Blue Note

  1976

• Silver 'n Voices

  Blue Note

  1976

• Silver 'n Brass

  Blue Note

  1975

• All (Phase III)

  Blue Note

  1973

• Total Response (Phase I)

  EMD Int'l

  1971

• Total Response (Phase II)

  Blue Note

  1971

• That Healin' Feelin'

  Blue Note

  1970

• You Gotta Take a Little Love

  Blue Note / EMI

  1969

• Senor Blues

  Blue Note

  1963

• The Tokyo Blues

  Blue Note

  1962

• Introducing the Horace Silver Trio

  1953

• Horace Silver Trio, Vol. 2

  Blue Note

  1952