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    Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers is an album by Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers compiling two 1955 10" LPs—Horace Silver Quintet, Vol. 3 (BLP...
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    with the Jazz Messengers, co-led by Art Blakey, that brought both his writing and playing most attention. Their Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers album...
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    the Messengers on one's resume was a rite of passage in the jazz world, and conveyed immediate bona fides. Many former members of the Jazz Messengers...
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  • Mobley, tenor saxophone Horace Silver, piano Doug Watkins, bass The Jazz Messengers (LP), Columbia, US, 1956 The Jazz Messengers (LP), Philips, Europe,...
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  • into the 1980s. The vast majority of Silver's recordings as a leader were for the Blue Note label. In addition to Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers listed...
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  • The Jazz Messengers were a jazz band that existed with varying personnel for 35 years. Their discography consists of 47 studio albums, 21 live albums...
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  • "Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz MessengersHorace Silver and the Jazz Messengers". AllMusic. Retrieved September 13, 2015. "Horace Silver –...
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    Dizzy Gillespie. In the mid-1950s, Horace Silver and Blakey formed the Jazz Messengers, a group which he led for the next 35 years. The group was formed...
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  • Byrd all had recently left The Jazz Messengers. These were Silver's first sessions as a leader after leaving the Messengers. The Allmusic review by Eugene...
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  • and the Jazz Messengers (stylized as Art Blakey!!!!! Jazz Messengers!!!!! and titled Alamode in Japan) is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers...
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  • Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955–1965. Oxford University Press, p. 38. "Horace Silver / Horace Silver & the Jazz MessengersHorace Silver and the Jazz Messengers"...
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    Michigan, United States. An original member of the Jazz Messengers, he later played in Horace Silver's quintet and freelanced with Gene Ammons, Kenny Burrell...
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    Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers. At this point, the band was a collective, sometimes appearing and recording under the names of either Silver or...
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  • review by Scott Yanow states, "The early Silver quintet was essentially The Jazz Messengers of the year before but already the band was starting to develop...
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  • Nica's Dream (category Compositions by Horace Silver)
    is a jazz standard composed by Horace Silver in 1954. It is one of many songs written in tribute to jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. The song...
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  • The Stylings of Silver is an album by the Horace Silver Quintet recorded on May 8, 1957 and released on Blue Note later that year. The quintet features...
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  • Percy Heath, the bassist throughout the album, and Max Roach on drums. Tracks 2, 3, and 5, from March 15, 1954, with Horace Silver on piano and Art Blakey...
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  • Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, also called Moanin', is a studio album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers recorded on October 30, 1958, and released...
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  • Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk is a studio album released in 1958 by Atlantic Records. It is a collaboration between the Jazz Messengers, the group...
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    Art Blakey took over the Jazz Messengers name). The Jazz Prophets, featuring a young Bobby Timmons on piano, bassist Sam Jones, and tenorman J. R. Monterose...
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  • The Art of Jazz: Live in Leverkusen is a live album by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at the Leverkusen Jazz Festival in Germany on October 9, 1989. To commemorate...
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  • Prestige – LP 7109: Miles Davis – trumpet Sonny Rollins – tenor saxophone Horace Silver – piano Percy Heath – bass Kenny Clarke – drums Miles Davis – trumpet...
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  • respectively. The quintet features horn section Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson and rhythm section Horace Silver, Curly Russell and Blakey. The recording...
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  • side two Horace Silver – piano Percy Heath – bass Kenny Clarke – drums Editorial Staff, Cash Box (March 9, 1957). "March Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box...
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  • Clarence Sharpe and rhythm section Horace Silver, Wilbur Ware and Philly Joe Jones. The AllMusic review awarded the album 3 stars. "Roccus" (Silver) – 8:18 "Reggie...
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  • Milt Jackson and Jazz Messengers rhythm section Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow calls the album "An above-average...
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  • The quintet features trumpeter Art Farmer and rhythm section Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. These musicians were the first lineup of The...
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  • Session with the Jazz Messengers is a live album by Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers originally released on the Elektra label in 1957. The album masters...
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  • bandleader in the Jazz Messengers), and two bandmates from his time in the Miles Davis Quintet, Wynton Kelly and Paul Chambers. The album's bookends are...
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  • features rhythm section Horace Silver, Doug Watkins and Art Blakey. The album was released on CD only in Japan, as a limited edition. The AllMusic review by...
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