I've been on a pretty serious jazz kick lately. I started with what I had on my ipod: Mingus, Parker, Monk, Coltrane, and some of the other usual stuff. Then I started listening to this record I've got by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

I stumbled on Horace Silver because he played piano with the Jazz Messengers. As I haven't been listening specifically for his playing for too long, I don't have that much to say. I can, at this point, comment on how relaxed his playing sounds. I can tell when people are talented because they'll do incredibly difficult things and they won't just make it seem effortless. They'll make it seem like they might as well be somewhere else. Horace Silver plays like this is just something he's doing for the moment, but he might as well be watching TV because it's so easy.