Horace Silver

Horace Silver

Aliases: Horace Silver Quintet
The Horace Silver Quintet
The Horace Silver Quintet / Sextet
The Horace Silver Quintet & Trio
The Horace Silver Trio
Real name: Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva
Born: September 2, 1928
Died: June 18, 2014
Country: United States
IPI: 00028730093
Comments: Jazz pianist and composer. He was born on the island of Maio, one of the Cape Verde Islands. His mother was of Irish and Negro descent, his father of Portuguese origin.
Related: The Jazz Messengers

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Popular Originals

Song for My Father

Released on Song for My Father (Cantiga para meu pai) (1965)

Covered by (82 artists)

Oleo

Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke

Released on Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke (1955)

Covered by (117 artists)

Peace

Blowin' the Blues Away

Released on Blowin' the Blues Away (1959)

Covered by (93 artists)

Airegin

Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke

Released on Miles Davis with Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, Percy Heath, Kenny Clarke (1955)

Covered by (68 artists)

Popular Covers by Horace Silver

Señor Blues

Originally by The Horace Silver Quintet

Released on Señor Blues (1958)

Willow Weep for Me

Bohemia After Dark

Originally by Ted FioRito & His Orchestra

Released on Bohemia After Dark (1955)

Nica's Dream

Horace-Scope

Originally by The Jazz Messengers

Released on Horace-Scope (1960)

I'll Know

Silver's Blue

Originally by Robert Alda & Isabel Bigley

Released on Silver's Blue (1956)