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New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio) is the first studio album by American jazz pianist Horace Silver.

“Looking back, we can say now that Horace Silver was way ahead of his time. The pianist not only invented hard bop piano but also funk. All in 1952, two years after being discovered by tenor saxophonist Stan Getz in Hartford, Ct.

Silver’s first album was a 10-inch LP recorded for Blue Note in October 1952. The recording—New Faces New Sounds (Introducing the Horace Silver Trio)—is astonishing in that Silver unleashed an entirely new approach on the piano that fused multiple styles, including bop, funk and Latin. The result was all his own and sounded shockingly modern for 1952. What’s more, all of the Silver originals on the LP are lyrical gems”. – Marc Myers/Jazz Wax.

Track listing:
00:00 A1 Safari
02:51 A2 Ecaroh
06:03 A3 Prelude To A Kiss
08:54 A4 Thou Swell
11:48 B1 Quicksilver
14:51 B2 Horoscope
18:41 B3 Yeah
21:32 B4 Knowledge Box

Personnel:
Piano – Horace Silver
Drums – Art Blakey
Bass – Curly Russell (tracks: A2, A3, B1, B3, B4), Gene Ramey (tracks: A1, A4, B2)

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Released: December 1952
Recorded: October 9, 1952 and October 20, 1952
Studio: WOR Studios, New York City
Label: Blue Note