| Guides to Growing Up | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Horace Silver |
| Cover: | Guides to Growing Up.jpg |
| Released: | 1981 |
| Recorded: | September 18 & 29, 1981 |
| Genre: | Jazz |
| Label: | Silverto |
| Producer: | Horace Silver |
| Chronology: | Horace Silver |
| Prev Title: | Silver 'n Strings Play the Music of the Spheres |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Spiritualizing the Senses |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
Guides to Growing Up is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver, his first released on the Silverto label, featuring performances by Silver with Eddie Harris, Joe Diorio, Bob Magnusson, and Roy McCurdy, with recitations by Bill Cosby and vocals by Weaver Copeland, and Mahmu Pearl.[1]
In a 1981 interview Silver stated: "This is jazz, and actually it's adult music. But it's music for everybody. And adults can listen to it and enjoy it as well as the kids! But the titles of the tunes and the lyrics and recitation is dedicated to the kids, so they can listen to and learn good principles of life."[2]
All compositions and lyrics by Horace Silver