Listening path
Horace Silver
How well do you know Silver's records?
INew to themHorace Silver was a pianist who wrote tunes people hum: bluesy, Latin-tinged, built on a groove. This path starts with his best-known record, goes back to his first trio and the band that became the Jazz Messengers, then follows his own quintets from the 1950s into the 1960s, with a few stops as a sideman along the way.12 records · start →III know the classicsYou know the famous Silver records. This path goes around them: the sideman dates of 1954 to 1957 where he helped shape hard bop, the Messengers live and on their last record together, the quintet records people skip, and the turns his band took in the 1960s.12 records · start →IIII know them wellFor the listener who knows the leader records. This path runs in order from 1952 to 1957 through Silver's sideman dates: his first Blue Note session, rare 10-inch and Savoy records, the other half of Birdland, the Adderleys' debut, a Dutch singer and two young tenors he found in Chicago. It is Silver as the pianist New York kept calling.12 records · start →