French-born, New York City–based jazz guitarist Guillaume Muller is proud to announce the release of his latest album, Six Pieces of Horace — a heartfelt solo guitar tribute to the legendary pianist and composer Horace Silver. Inspired by a deep dive into Silver’s classic 1950s and ’60s recordings.
Conceived during the isolation of the pandemic in 2021, the project began as a personal study of Silver’s discography. Over time, it evolved into a highly intimate solo guitar record. Muller meticulously transcribed and arranged 20–30 of Silver’s compositions before narrowing them down to the six pieces that best represented both Silver’s brilliance and Muller’s evolving musical voice.
“Initially, this wasn’t supposed to be a solo guitar album,” Muller explains. “I was studying Horace’s music, trying to find my own voice through his work. But as I arranged and played through the pieces, it became something much deeper — a fusion of two of my greatest musical loves: solo guitar and the music of Horace Silver.”
Recorded in a New York studio with a live performance approach in mind, Six Pieces of Horace captures the spontaneity and organic flow of Muller’s playing. The result is an honest and personal interpretation of Silver’s music, free of excessive polish, and rich in soul and expression.
The album title and artwork pay homage to Silver’s iconic Six Pieces of Silver, one of Muller’s favorite recordings by the jazz master. Each track on Muller’s record aims to reflect Silver’s spirit while filtered through Muller’s own unique harmonic language and phrasing.
Guillaume Muller is a jazz guitarist and composer whose music blends the bluesy lyricism of hard bop with modern jazz sensibilities. A graduate of Berklee College of Music (B.A. in Composition, 2016) and NYU (M.A. in Jazz Studies, 2019), Muller has earned accolades including the Q.C.A. New Work Grant (2021) and an honorary mention from the International Songwriting Competition (2022). His debut album Sketches of Sound (2019) was met with critical acclaim, with Making A Scene Magazine calling him “a fluid, lyrical guitarist” and Contemporary Fusion Reviews praising his “inventive, jazz guitar mastery.”
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