Jazz

Horace Silver: Blue Note Records and His Lady Music

The Q&A portion of this article first appeared on KPFK 90.7 FM (Los Angeles) in 1974. 75 years ago Blue Note Records was started by two German immigrants who loved jazz and believed that the music ...
NPR

For Senor Blues: A Horace Silver Tribute

Bassist Christian McBride is the creative chair for jazz at the Los Angeles Philharmonic –- which means he gets to put together programs at Walt Disney Concert Hall with music he loves. One of the ...
NPR

Horace Silver: 'Song for My Father'

A.B. SPELLMAN, National Endowment for the Arts: Murray Horwitz, this is Horace Silver playing "Song for My Father," one of his famous compositions. Why do you like this CD? MURRAY HORWITZ, American ...
Jazz

Horace Silver (1928-2014)

Horace Silver, a pianist who in 1952 and '53 pioneered two prominent jazz styles—funk and hard bop—and went on to lead one of the most exciting and successful hard bop quintets of the 1950s and early ...
CNN

Horace Silver, jazz innovator, dies at 85

Horace Silver, the innovative and prolific jazz pianist best known for such pieces as “Song for My Father” and “The Preacher,” has died. He was 85. Silver died Wednesday in New Rochelle, New York, ...
Los Angeles Times

Horace Silver dies at 85; pioneering jazz pianist and composer

Horace Silver, the prolific jazz pianist and composer who cofounded the legendary Jazz Messengers, pioneered the genre known as hard bop and mentored scores of musicians, has died. He was 85. Silver ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Horace Silver, Renowned Hard Bop Jazz Pianist, Dies at 85

The opening bars to his "Song for My Father" was used by Steely Dan for their hit, "Rikki Don’t Lost That Number." By Phil Gallo Horace Silver Obit - P 2014 Jazz pianist Horace Silver, a progenitor of ...
Billboard

Horace Silver

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KQED

Legendary Pianist Horace Silver Dies at 85

Pianist Horace Silver, whose potent and catchy combination of blues, funk and Latin sounds shifted the jazz landscape in the 1950s and ’60s, died Wednesday morning at his home in New Rochelle, N.Y. He ...
The Washington Post

Horace Silver dies; pianist and composer helped define hard-bop jazz

Horace Silver, a trailblazing pianist and composer who was a primary developer in the 1950s and 1960s of the style of jazz known as hard bop, marked by catchy melodies and relentless rhythms, died ...
CBS News

Horace Silver, pioneering jazz pianist, dies at 85

Horace Silver, a pianist, composer and band leader with a tireless inventiveness who influenced generations of jazzmen with his distinctive hard bop sound, has died. He was 85. The Westchester County ...