Horace Silver
Piano Solo on
Lou's Blues

About

Horace Silver closes out the solos on piano with seven choruses, following Clifford Brown at approximately 327 BPM. Set within a swinging rhythmic framework, the 12-bar Blues form and the key of B♭, the solo tests the player's command at high velocity. 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 seven choruses of rhythmically propulsive piano. Few tempos are as unforgiving, requiring total command of the instrument to maintain musical coherence.

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