Horace Silver - 12 Classic Albums 1953-1962 [6CD Box Set, 2014]

Artist: Horace Silver
Title Of Album 12 Classic Albums
Year Of Release: 1953-62/2014
Label (Catalog#) : Inlightenment [EN6CD9031]
Country: USA
Genre: Jazz, Hard Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + cue,log,scans)
Bitrate: Lossless
Total Time: 07:37:19
Total Size: 2.56Gb

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s.

After playing tenor saxophone and piano at school in Connecticut, Silver got his break on piano when his trio was recruited by Stan Getz in 1950. Silver soon moved to New York City, where he developed a reputation as a composer and for his bluesy playing. Frequent sideman recordings in the mid-1950s helped further, but it was his work with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey, that brought both his writing and playing most attention. Their Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers album contained Silver's first hit, "The Preacher". After leaving Blakey in 1956, Silver formed his own quintet, with what became the standard small group line-up of tenor saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums. Their public performances and frequent recordings for Blue Note Records increased Silver's popularity, even through changes of personnel. His most successful album was Song for My Father, made with two iterations of the quintet in 1963 and 1964.

Several changes occurred in the early 1970s: Silver disbanded his group to spend more time with his wife and to concentrate on composing; he included lyrics in his recordings; and his interest in spiritualism developed. The last two of these were often combined, resulting in commercially unsuccessful releases such as The United States of Mind series. Silver left Blue Note after 28 years, founded his own record label, and scaled back his touring in the 1980s, relying in part on royalties from his compositions for income. In 1993, he returned to major record labels, releasing five albums before gradually withdrawing from public view because of health problems.

As a player, Silver transitioned from bebop to hard bop by stressing melody rather than complex harmony, and combined clean and often humorous right-hand lines with darker notes and chords in a near-perpetual left-hand rumble. His compositions similarly emphasized catchy melodies, but often also contained dissonant harmonies. Many of his varied repertoire of songs, including "Doodlin'", "Peace", and "Sister Sadie", became jazz standards that are still widely played. His considerable legacy encompasses his influence on other pianists and composers, and the development of young jazz talents who appeared in his bands over the course of four decades.

Tracks:
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New Faces New Sounds - 1952:
1-1 Safari
1-2 Ecaroh
1-3 Prelude To A Kiss
1-4 Thou Swell
1-5 Quicksilver
1-6 Horoscope
1-7 Yeah
1-8 Knowledge Box

Horace Silver And The Jazz Messengers - 1955:
1-9 Room 608
1-10 Creepin' In
1-11 Stop Time
1-12 To Whom It May Concern
1-13 Hippy
1-14 The Preacher
1-15 Hankerin'
1-16 Doodlin'

Horace Silver Trio - 1956:
2-1 Day In Day Out
2-2 How About You
2-3 I Remember You
2-4 Silverware
2-5 Message From Kenya
2-6 Opus De Funk
2-7 Nothing But The Soul
2-8 Buhaina

Silver's Blue - 1958:
2-9 Silver's Blue
2-10 To Beat Or Not To Beat
2-11 How Long Has This Been Going On
2-12 I'll Know
2-13 Shoutin' Out
2-14 Hank's Tune
2-15 The Night Has A Thousand Eyes

Stylings Of Horace Silver - 1957:
3-1 No Smokin'
3-2 The Back Beat
3-3 Soulville
3-4 Home Cookin'
3-5 Metamorphosis
3-6 My One And Only Love

Six Pieces Of Silver - 1957:
3-7 Cool Eyes
3-8 Shirl
3-9 Camouflage
3-10 Enchantment
3-11 Señor Blues
3-12 Virgo
3-13 For Heaven's Sake

Further Explorations - 1958:
4-1 The Outlaw
4-2 Melancholy Mood
4-3 Pyramid
4-4 Moon Rays
4-5 Safari

Blowin' The Blues Away - 1959:
4-6 Blowin' The Blues Away
4-7 The St. Vitus Dance
4-8 Break City
4-9 Peace
4-10 Sister Sadie
4-11 The Baghdad Blues
4-12 Melancholy Mood
4-13 How Did It Happen

Finger Poppin' - 1959:
5-1 Finger Poppin'
5-2 Juicy Lucy
5-3 Swingin' The Samba
5-4 Sweet Stuff
5-5 Cookin' At The Continental
5-6 Come On Home
5-7 You Happened My Way
5-8 Mellow D

Horace-Scope - 1960:
5-9 Strollin'
5-10 Where You At
5-11 Without You
5-12 Horace-Scope
5-13 Yeah!
5-14 Me And My Baby
5-15 Nica's Dream

Doin' The Thing - 1961:
6-1 Filthy McNasty
6-2 Doin' The Thing
6-3 Kiss Me Right
6-4 The Gringo
6-5 The Theme

The Tokyo Blues - 1962:
6-6 Too Much Sake
6-7 Sayonara Blues
6-8 The Tokyo Blues
6-9 Ah So

All thanks to original releaser