Like Bill Evans, Horace Silver was unlike any other jazz pianist. The father of funk, Silver was brilliant at chord voicings, rhythm, original melodies and, most of all, harmony. He also was one of the originators of hard bop in 1952.
Discovered in Hartford, Ct., by Stan Getz in 1950, Silver led a quintet for much of his career, starting in 1956. The for…
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