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Born: September 02, 1928 in Norwalk, CT
Years Active: 50 's, 60 's, 70 's, 80 's, 90 's
Genre: Jazz

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Biography:
From the perspective of the early 2000s, it is clear that few jazz musicians have had a greater impact on the contemporary mainstream than Horace Silver. The hard bop style that Silver pioneered in the '50s is now dominant, played not only by holdovers from an earlier generation, but also by fuzzy-cheeked musicians who had yet to be born when the m... Continue Bio >>

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Song For My Father

Discography:
2007 Live at Newport '58
2003 Rockin' with Rachmaninoff
1999 Jazz Has a Sense of Humor
1997 Prescription for the Blues
1996 Hard Bop Grandpop
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Similar Artists: Bobby Timmons Junior Mance Miles Davis Phineas Newborn Ramsey Lewis More >>

Influenced By: Tadd Dameron Bud Powell Nat King Cole Teddy Wilson Coleman Hawkins More >> Followers: Horace Parlan George Cables Weldon Irvine Onaje Allan Gumbs Sonny Clark More >>

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