Horace Silver
Piano Solo on
Blues

About

Horace Silver closes out the solos on piano with four choruses, following Clifford Brown at approximately 77 BPM. Set within a swinging rhythmic framework, the 12-bar Blues form and the key of B♭, the solo allows for nuanced, expressive phrasing. Coming last in the solo order, Silver has the task of building on everything that came before while steering the performance back toward the closing head. Horace Silver closes the solo section with four bluesy piano choruses, his comping and solo lines drawing deeply from the gospel and rhythm-and-blues traditions.

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