pianist Horace Silver, began his musical studies in high school playing the saxophone while studying piano with a church organist. While serving as a youth in the club "Sundown" in the town of Hartford, was played by Stan Getz, who offered him a contract as a quintet. Six months later he made his debut recording with musicians like Jimmy Raney, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes. In 1951, Horace Silver, settled in New York and spent the next year and playing as a sideman by jazz greats.
But in 1954, gets the green light to his fame. On 13 November of that year, in Blue Note studios held a historic recording in the history of jazz Horace Silver was to be protagonists of the same. At that time, Alfred Lion, label owner, Silver had proposed to recording an album and, curiously, he left to choose their companions. The pianist, despite his youth, was not discouraged, and proposed the best musicians who knew and admired: as tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins on bass, Kenny Dorham on trumpet and Art Blakey on drums. Lion agreed to the formation and hired all, which gave rise to the "Jazz Messengers", an institution that gave the movement musical hardbop, many years glory. Product of this meeting was issued the foundation stone disk hardbop "Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note, 1955) containing the aforementioned meeting and another held on 6 February of that same year. This album is, for many, the leap of Silver from the bebop tradition with new forms of funky hard bop.
Horace Silver, thus became a champion of new ways that would bring the jazz in the fifties and the creation of the "Jazz Messengers" where he worked as musical director, was the starting point for a brilliant career, both in his role as composer and pianist. Silver would hold a short time in the Messengers, and in 1961 toured the world visiting and playing in Europe and Japan for many festivals, concerts, TV shows etc. In 1975 he devoted himself to the orchestration with the help of Wade Marcus, forming an orchestra of thirteen elements. Gradually, his music was drifting towards mystical currents which fell within the emerging sixties horse racing and, eventually, his spirit was fully investigator to look inward and doctrinal did not overlook or incursion vocal music and the use of electric instruments. His last stage will again lead to hard bop, but at the time, Horace Silver was out Blue Note, the label that recorded their best and inimitable works.
His career from 1952, the year he first recorded for Blue Note trio until 1978, when he finished his first special stage and the seal of the blue label, he recorded a series of thematic albums that were closed with "Silver n 'strings play The Music of the Spheres", but has recorded in 1964 and entitled "Song for My Father" the jewel in the crown of his career, and one of the great masterpieces of the period hardbop jazz. All the work record of Horace Silver, is an exquisite monument to jazz, but the fact remains that his recordings as a sideman in Miles Davis (1954), Jay Jay Johnson (1955), Art Farmer (1954) and especially those published on behalf of Art Blakey also in 1954: "A night at Birdland, Vols. 1 and 2" and "Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia", both on Blue Note, also serve to check its huge contribution to jazz.
But in 1954, gets the green light to his fame. On 13 November of that year, in Blue Note studios held a historic recording in the history of jazz Horace Silver was to be protagonists of the same. At that time, Alfred Lion, label owner, Silver had proposed to recording an album and, curiously, he left to choose their companions. The pianist, despite his youth, was not discouraged, and proposed the best musicians who knew and admired: as tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, Doug Watkins on bass, Kenny Dorham on trumpet and Art Blakey on drums. Lion agreed to the formation and hired all, which gave rise to the "Jazz Messengers", an institution that gave the movement musical hardbop, many years glory. Product of this meeting was issued the foundation stone disk hardbop "Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note, 1955) containing the aforementioned meeting and another held on 6 February of that same year. This album is, for many, the leap of Silver from the bebop tradition with new forms of funky hard bop.
Horace Silver, thus became a champion of new ways that would bring the jazz in the fifties and the creation of the "Jazz Messengers" where he worked as musical director, was the starting point for a brilliant career, both in his role as composer and pianist. Silver would hold a short time in the Messengers, and in 1961 toured the world visiting and playing in Europe and Japan for many festivals, concerts, TV shows etc. In 1975 he devoted himself to the orchestration with the help of Wade Marcus, forming an orchestra of thirteen elements. Gradually, his music was drifting towards mystical currents which fell within the emerging sixties horse racing and, eventually, his spirit was fully investigator to look inward and doctrinal did not overlook or incursion vocal music and the use of electric instruments. His last stage will again lead to hard bop, but at the time, Horace Silver was out Blue Note, the label that recorded their best and inimitable works. His career from 1952, the year he first recorded for Blue Note trio until 1978, when he finished his first special stage and the seal of the blue label, he recorded a series of thematic albums that were closed with "Silver n 'strings play The Music of the Spheres", but has recorded in 1964 and entitled "Song for My Father" the jewel in the crown of his career, and one of the great masterpieces of the period hardbop jazz. All the work record of Horace Silver, is an exquisite monument to jazz, but the fact remains that his recordings as a sideman in Miles Davis (1954), Jay Jay Johnson (1955), Art Farmer (1954) and especially those published on behalf of Art Blakey also in 1954: "A night at Birdland, Vols. 1 and 2" and "Jazz Messengers at Cafe Bohemia", both on Blue Note, also serve to check its huge contribution to jazz.
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