Francis Luong

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Essential Jazz Repertoire: Peace by Horace Silver

Listening to recordings is a crucial aspect of building up your Jazz Repertoire, which is a fancy term for the list of jazz tunes that you know.  

My rollout strategy for tackling a new tune involves adding it to a playlist titled "Jazz Familiarization".  This list is for tunes that I plan to play once I can hum the head of the tune all the way through.

Occasionally, this gets a bit tricky.  Peace by Horace Silver is a tune in Paul Pieper's essential repertoire list for The Jazz Workshop. But searching for "Peace" in Amazon Prime Music is even worse than searching for "L.O.V.E.":

results for search term: peace


And searching for "Peace Jazz" doesn't much improve things because a lot of song titles and album titles include the word "peace".

results for search term: peace jazz

It is in these circumstances that I find it useful to resort to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_(Horace_Silver_song)

Thankfully they have a list of versions and I was able to search for terms like "Peace Chet Baker" which makes things a lot easier!

Other versions[edit]

"Peace has regularly attracted younger musicians".[3] Silver recorded a version with vocals by Andy Bey on That Healin' Feelin' a decade after the original recording.[5]

Thanks, Wikipedia!