Horace Silver
Piano Solo on
Now's The Time

About

Horace Silver closes out the solos on piano with six choruses, following Clifford Brown at approximately 163 BPM. Set within a swinging rhythmic framework, the 12-bar Blues form and the key of F, the solo navigates the chord changes with purpose. 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 rounds out the solo section with six choruses of bluesy, swinging piano. The unhurried tempo lets the soloist breathe between phrases and build ideas organically.

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