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Horace Silver wraps up the solo sequence with three choruses on piano, the last of three improvisations. Taken at an up-tempo swing tempo of 203 BPM over the 16-bar form in D♭, the improvisation moves with confident, driving energy. "Horace-Scope" is the title track of Horace Silver's 1960 Blue Note album, a characteristically inventive Silver original with a compact 16-bar form in D-flat. Recorded for the album Horace-Scope in 1960, the performance captures Horace Silver at 31 to 32 years old. The tune's pithy construction allows the soloists to move through the changes quickly, generating a sense of momentum that Silver exploited throughout his career.
Horace Silver was 31 to 32 years old at the time.
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