Horace Silver: Horace Silver: Song For My Father album review by Greg Simmons, published on December 3, 2011. ... Their attack on the melody of the title track, following Silver's opening piano bounce ...

Everyone has a favorite Horace Silver album. Mine is Horace-Scope. Recorded in July 1960, the album has a hair-raising lineup of tracks and a superb mix of Silver's grumbling bass lines, high-energy ...

McBride says he had to track him down. ... he's one of those kind of guys where he sounded so great on all those Horace Silver records, but he moved back to Pittsburgh over 30 years ago. And, ...

Jazz pianist Horace Silver, synonymous with Blue Note Records when hard bop -- a style he helped pioneer -- became the label's bread and butter, died at age 85 of natural causes at his home in New ...

Horace Silver, a pioneering jazz composer and pianist, has died of natural causes at the age of 85. Silver was born as Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silva on September 2, 1928, in Norwalk ...

NEW YORK — 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.