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The great pianist and composer Horace Silver has been heard by hundreds of millions of music fans who are probably unaware of his presence. One of Silver’s best-known tunes, “Song for My Father,” is built on a catchy two-note bass line that Walter Becker and Donald Fagen famously borrowed for
Steely Dan’s highest-charting single, 1974’s “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” That wasn’t Silver’s only influence on a Billboard top 20 song from that decade, though. The swirling horn lines toward the end of “Song for My Father,” are replicated in multitracked vocals on ....

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