Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers is an album by Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers compiling two 1955 10" LPs—Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 3 and Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 4 —recorded on November 13, 1954 and February 6, 1955 respectively and released on Blue Note in October 1956—Silver’s debut 12". The quintet features horn section Hank Mobley and Kenny Dorham and rhythm section Doug Watkins and Art Blakey.
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.
Portrait by Dmitri Savitski, 1989
Silver c. 1965
Silver at Keystone Korner, San Francisco in 1978
Silver in Berkeley, California, 1983