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Horace Silver

Day 81
#26 – Horace Silver (b.1928), born Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva. American jazz pianist and composer. Albums include: Horace Silver Trio (1953), Blowin’ the Blues Away (1959) and Song For My Father (1964).

Silver was proficient in Portugese – his father was from Cape Verde. I liked the idea of playing on his name – printing Silver in the Portugese colours.

1 hour

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An early idea

Listen…

to excerpt from ‘Song For My Father’

 
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