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A Tribute To Horace Silver. Writer is Brian Sanders. In the s, borace recorded for major labels and, now over his didactic tendencies, sounded as joyously creative as ever, cramming a wealth of detail into seemingly guileless routines and banging away behind solos.
Silver gradually calmed down — he had a history of back trouble and in the late s suffered what could have been a repetitive-strain arm injury. In this sense, composition is necessarily distinct from improvisation. But it was a few years later when Silver would record one of his most famous songs, the title track to his album, Song For My Father.
At their first recording session, Getz loosened up, chucked quotes around and matched Siilver for uninhibited swing: By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Notice. Show 25 si,ver 50 All. He crouched over the piano as the sweat poured out, with his forelock brushing the keys and his feet pounding.
A Tribute To Horace Silver : NPR
Web Resources Horace Silver's Site. He based much of his own writing on blues and gospelthe latter is particularly prominent on one of his biggest tunes, "The Preacher.
Order by newest oldest recommendations. The saxophonist brought the band on the road and recorded three of Silver's compositions.
SILVER DELIVERS LESS THAN STERLING LYRICS
A tour of Hoace inspired the album The Tokyo Bluesgong sounds and all. His father — for whom he wrote his best-known composition, "Song for My Father" — worked at a local tire factory.
As social and cultural upheavals shook the nation during the late s and early s, Silver responded to these changes through music. Some of the Messengers were heroin users, and the difficulties this caused led Silver to break out and launch what became the most tightly organised of the hard bop quintets.
As Silver's piano trio was working in Hartford, Connecticut, the group received saxophonist Stan Getz's attention in The avant-garde pianist Cecil Taylor has since acknowledged Silver's gutsy attack as a vital influence. His autobiography, Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty, was published in The music itself barely altered but this didacticism contributed to him starting his own label, Silveto, after more than 20 years at Blue Note ; some of his subsequent albums featured the brilliant saxophonist Eddie Harris and one had Bill Cosby as fulthy.
For many years, he played with his right wrist arched high over the keys, useless for fast fingering but effective for making each note ring out. Cannonball Adderley and Art Blakey led other hard bop combos. Horace Silver was the most prominent pianist, composer, and bandleader in this period.
When Horace Silver filtuy wrote out his rules for musical composition in the liner notes to the record, Serenade to a Soul Sisterhe expounded on the importance of "meaningful simplicity. Silver performed rilthy similar service for Miles Davisappearing on many classic tracks intaking a splendid blues solo on Weirdo and offering the trumpeter fresh rhythmic impetus. Having moved to New York, Silver was in demand for live gigs and records.
Horace Silver, pioneering jazz pianist, dies at 85
The tenor saxophone star Joe Henderson joined in time for the bossa nova sivler Song for My Father, part of a million-selling album of the same name. Over the years, it has become an American popular music standard, covered not only by scores of instrumentalists, but also such singers as James Brown.
Accessibility links Skip to main content Keyboard shortcuts for audio player. In the following year, he met the executives at Blue Note while working as a sideman for saxophonist Lou Donaldson. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. His mother, Gertrude, was a maid.
Tunes entitled Opus de FunkDoodlin'The Preacher, Home Cookin' and Soulville reflected this new departure, though his mercurial approach transcended any sillver stylistic limits.
Silver is also anxious to tell the world his life story in his own words as he just completed writing his autobiography, Let's Get To The Nitty Gritty University of California Press, scheduled for fall release. Music comes to Silver from what he calls his "inner source of inspiration.
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