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Jazz is not background music.

Horace Silver

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Horace Silver
Age: 85 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 2
Died: 2014
Died: June 18
Bandleader
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Conductor
Jazz Musician
Jazz Pianist
Pianist
Recording Artist
Norwalk
Connecticut
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva
Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver
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Good Lord's been kind to me, that's all I can say. I wake up in the morning with music in my head a lot of times. I won't say every morning, but I wake up in the morning sometimes with eight bars in my head and I just go to the piano.
Horace Silver
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The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.
Horace Silver
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I will search for hidden talents that I didn't know I had and do my best to cultivate them. I am grateful for each day, and I will try to use each day as a stepping stone to greater achievements.
Horace Silver
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Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music.
Horace Silver