The Horace Silver Quintet
- Type: Band/Group
- Born: 1956 in New York, New York, United States
- Active: 1956 - 1968
Biography
The Horace Silver Quintet was pianist Horace Silver's hard bop group, formed in 1956 and recording for #Blue Note Records#. The best known lineup, with Blue Mitchell, Junior Cook, Gene Taylor and Roy Brooks, produced 'Finger Poppin'', 'Blowin' the Blues Away' and 'Silver's Serenade', and a later group with Joe Henderson and Woody Shaw made 'Song for My Father' and 'The Cape Verdean Blues'. Silver's funky, gospel rooted compositions, including 'Señor Blues' and 'Song for My Father', made the quintet one of the defining hard bop bands.
Genres
The Horace Silver Quintet Discography
- Finger Poppin' With the Horace Silver Quintet (1959) - Album - rated 4.1/5
- Horace-Scope (1960) - Album - rated 3.91/5
- Doin' the Thing: The Horace Silver Quintet at the Village Gate (1961) - Album - rated 4.07/5
- Silver's Serenade (1963) - Album - rated 4.05/5
Members
- Horace Silver - piano (1956–1968)
- Donald Byrd - trumpet (1956–1958)
- Hank Mobley - tenor saxophone (1956–1957)
- Doug Watkins - bass (1956–1956)
- Louis Hayes - drums (1956–1959)
- Art Farmer - trumpet (1957–1958)
- Blue Mitchell - trumpet (1958–1964)
- Junior Cook - tenor saxophone (1958–1964)
- Gene Taylor - bass (1958–1964)
- Roy Brooks - drums (1960–1964)
- Joe Henderson - tenor saxophone (1964–1965)
- Roger Humphries - drums (1964–1966)
- Woody Shaw - trumpet (1965–1966)