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By 1954 Silver had been on the scene for about four years, having performed and recorded with Stan Getz (with whom he'd made his first recordings), Miles Davis, Lou Donaldson, and Art Blakey. '54 was significant; for it was the year that Hard Bop emerged as the next major development in the music, with Silver playing a key role.

The band's first album, Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers, was a milestone in the development of the genre that came to be known as hard bop. Many of the tunes penned by Silver for that record — "The Preacher," "Doodlin,'" "Room 608" — became jazz classics and have been performed and recorded by many musicians including Louis Armstrong ...

Bio. Horace Silver was the heart of the hard bop era, helping to form the influential Jazz Messengers and composing many blues and gospel-flavored songs that have become part of the jazz canon, including "Lonely Woman," "Song For My Father," "Señor Blues," "The Preacher," "Nica's Dream," and "Peace." His piano playing was heavily rhythmic ...