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ASCAP Jazz Wall Inductees 2006
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ASCAP Jazz Living Legend Award
Horace Silver One of modern jazz's most influential pianists and composers, Horace Silver, a leader of "the "Hard Bop" school, was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. As a teenager in the 1940s, Silver absorbed the contemporary sounds of boogie-woogie and blues, as well as the influences his immigrant father brought from the African/Portuguese islands of Cape Verde. Silver was particularly enamored of the recordings of Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell. In 1950, Stan Getz heard Silver and his trio, took the band with him on the road and recorded three Silver originals. The pianist's career blossomed as he played behind the likes of Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Lou Donaldson, and he was soon signed to a long and productive recording deal with Blue Note Records, a relationship that lasted from 1952 to 1980. During that time, co-headed the Jazz Messengers with Art Blakey, and issued many classic albums, first with the Jazz Messengers, and, later, under his own name. These include: Finger Poppin' with the Horace Silver Quintet, Blowin' the Blues Away and Song for My Father. Silver's compositions, frequently recorded by other players, include "The Jody Grind," "Song for My Father," "Seņor Blues," "Sister Sadie," "The Preacher" and "Doodlin'." Earlier this year, Siver published his aurtobiography, Let's Get to the Nitty Gritty.
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