Horace Silver
Piano Solo on
Mayreh

About

Horace Silver's piano solo is the 3rd of 4 on this recording, spanning three choruses at approximately 283 BPM. Set within a swinging rhythmic framework, the 32-bar AA' form and the key of F, the solo tests the player's command at high velocity. The tune borrows its harmonic structure from "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm," a set of changes that generations of improvisers have used as a testing ground for new ideas. Positioned between Lou Donaldson and Art Blakey, Silver bridges the conversation between the two. "Mayreh" is a hard-charging original by Horace Silver from A Night at Birdland Vol. 1, the legendary 1954 live recording by the Art Blakey Quintet.

Horace Silver was 25 to 26 years old at the time.