HORACE SILVER (The Hard Bop Grandpop) Jazz History #55

[@skimanization]

When I listened to a jazz collection of Horace Silver I was able to understand what Jazz really is. All his soloists were great Jazz stars...I could understand everything they did. He's a real father of Hard Bop!

[@chasesanborn]

He is that. Love your first sentence.

[@basilshahid2905]

Horace Sliver is unmatched in his musical gospel jazz and metaphysical creative genius! I cherish the great conversation I had with him….A very beautiful soul.💎🎶✨

[@chasesanborn]

Agreed, and I envy you the conversation.

[@rickolson-51]

i hate finding this channel...now every extra minute will be spent listening to it...Thanks

[@chasesanborn]

I know that feeling, but it is time well spent, IMHO. :)

[@skimanization]

SINOR blues has always been my favourite because it sounded African to me. What a great composer/arranger jazz pianist!!!

[@ercfilutube]

A big thank you from Italy

[@chasesanborn]

A big you're welcome from Canada!

[@ryanballantyne1811]

That live performance of Señor Blues towards the end was truly something to behold.

[@chasesanborn]

Each of them are deeply into it. Horace's solo in particular is captivating.

[@skimanization]

Horace Silver played with all my favourite instrumentalists, Art Blackey, Clifford Brown, Hank Mobley, etc. He's a real grandfather of HARD BOP!!!

[@chasesanborn]

Exactly.

[@schrisdellopoulos9244]

"Instrumentalists?" That's a peculiar word to use for great jazz musicians.

[@A.ChristopherJohnson]

Couldn't agree more, about Horace & Art, but definitely would include Cannonball & Brownie too

[@chasesanborn]

Max and Clifford's group would be up there with Art and Horace in the 1950s on the vanguard of the hard bop movement, but didn't have the longevity because of Clifford's early demise.

[@emigran7472]

Fabulous short and sweet your Series has been so personally enjoyable an uplifting pointing out facts that have disappeared from common remembrance to bring to light what has happened over this amazing musical Journey thank you so very much thank you

[@chasesanborn]

Thanks very much for the comment--it's always good to hear that people are enjoying the series.

[@chasesanborn]

This is the 55th episode in the Jazz History series, profiling many of the musicians who shaped the evolution of jazz. Check the playlist for other episodes, SUBSCRIBE for upcoming episodes and above all, please LIKE the video to send a message to KZbin that this is content you enjoy. Comments are welcome and encouraged!

[@jasonnstegall]

These vids make for good intros to the artists who make (I like to keep things in the present tense in a spirit of optimism) jazz the uniquely beautiful and artistic medium it is and continues to be. This one on Horace is particularly good, BTW. Oh, and just one more thing: no matter how “dense” modern jazz seemed to get, you could always still dance to it.

[@chasesanborn]

Happy to spread the word.

[@ber334]

Thank you. May you get lots of paid subscribers

[@chasesanborn]

Thanks for the sentiment! Of course, it costs nothing to subscribe.

[@JosePerez-vz1qq]

12:50 ironic considering how much has been made about how Steely Dan sued successfully for copying the opening of "Black Cow" in a long forgotten hip hop one hit wonder in 1991.

[@chasesanborn]

'tis.

[@hans-ulrichbuehler8769]

You mention the 1954 album "A night at Birdland" with Lou Donaldson "on tenor". But Lou actually played alto! It's one of the finest recording of all time. H.U.B., Switzerland

[@chasesanborn]

If I said that, I misspoke. These videos were originally made in a hurry as I scrambled to convert an in-person university course to video during Covid. Thanks for catching the error!

[@hans-ulrichbuehler8769]

@@chasesanborn No problem, Chase. But your jazz history series is just great. Thanks for it. As I became a jazz-fan in my early teens, I had the occacion to see most of the jazz-greats live, when they came to Switzerland.

[@ber334]

@@chasesanborn that's funny because I was just thinking to myself that these are ready-made high school and college course jazz history lessons !!! How come your name Chase Sanborn reminds me of coffee?

[@ber334]

You know Horace probably didn't bother with the steely Dan Rikki Don't lose that number thing because it would have been a tough case because they're only using a baseline and it's a common baseline bass players use that rhythm all the time playing the 1 and 5 so that's why Horace probably left it alone

[@chasesanborn]

It may also be that Horace with his generous soul would consider it a compliment rather than theft.