Arts > Music > Jazz > USA > Horace Silver    1928-2014

Another album by Mr. Silver is

“Further Explorations by the Horace Silver Quintet.”

Blue Note Records

Horace Silver, 85, Master of Earthy Jazz, Is Dead

By PETER KEEPNEWS        NYT        JUNE 18, 2014

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/
arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html 

Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver    1928-2014

Playing piano and saxophone,

Silver recorded

for Blue Note Records

and appeared on a number

of Miles Davis' albums

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/19/horace-silver-us-jazz-musician-dies

pianist, composer

and bandleader

who was one

of the most popular

and influential

jazz musicians

of the 1950s and ’60s

(...)

Like Blakey, Miles Davis

(with whom he recorded)

and a few others,

Mr. Silver was known

for discovering

and nurturing young talent,

including the saxophonists

Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson

and Michael Brecker;

the trumpeters

Art Farmer, Woody Shaw,

Tom Harrell and Dave Douglas;

and the drummers

Louis Hayes and Billy Cobham.

His longest-lived ensemble,

which lasted about five years

in the late 1950s and early ’60s,

featured Blue Mitchell on trumpet

and Junior Cook on tenor saxophone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html

http://www.npr.org/programs/jazzprofiles/archive/silver.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/
arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html

http://www.npr.org/2014/06/20/
323950913/remembering-horace-silver-hard-bop-pioneer

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/19/
arts/music/horace-silver-85-master-of-earthy-jazz-is-dead.html

http://www.npr.org/sections/ablogsupreme/2014/06/18/
323351163/legendary-pianist-horace-silver-dies-at-85

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jun/19/
horace-silver-us-jazz-musician-dies

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/mar/14/jazz.shopping2

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/mar/25/jazz.shopping2

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