Horace Silver

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.

• Art Blakey/Roach/Jones
• Clifford Brown
• Curtis Fuller
• Hampton Hawes
• Hank Mobley
• J.J. Johnson
• Jackie McLean/The Great Jazz Trio
• John Lewis
• Kenny Dorham
• Lou Donaldson
• Miles Davis
• Phineas Newborn Jr.
• Sonny Rollins
• Stan Getz

• Bud Powell
• Coleman Hawkins/Hawkins
• Earl Hines & His Orchestra
• Jay McShann
• Lester Young
• Nat "King" Cole
• Teddy Wilson
• Thelonious Monk

• Art Farmer
• Blue Mitchell
• Bobby Timmons
• Cecil Bridgewater
• Cecil Taylor
• Cedar Walton
• Donald Byrd
• Donald Fagen
• Herbie Hancock/Chick Corea
• Joe Henderson (Saxophone)
• Michael Brecker
• Randy Brecker
• Sonny Clark
• Tom Harrell

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