Vinyl records

Horace Silver vinyl records

3 albums with 92 vinyl pressings between them. Open an album to see all its pressings and how to spot the first one.

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver. American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader (born September 2, 1928, in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA, died June 18, 2014, aged 85, in New Rochelle, New York, USA). Pioneer of the hard bop style of jazz in the 1950s. Received big break backing in 1950 during a club date in Hartford, Connecticut. Soon relocated to New York, and made recording debut for in 1952. In 1953, with Art Blakey established a cooperative small group under their joint leadership. Under exclusive contract with Blue Note from the late 1950s until the late 1970s, though some live dates on other labels eventually surfaced, he founded his own label, Silveto Records, in 1980.