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New York-based trombonist Conrad Herwig began exploring the "Latin side" of various jazz musicians in 1996, with The Latin Side of John Coltrane, which earned him the first of four Latin Grammy Award ...
Horace Silver has two huge claims to fame in the jazz pantheon. He cemented the components of hard bop - once known as the "funky" style - into the jazz mainstream and gave it a repertoire in the ...
The pair first recorded together in 1952, on a Coleman Hawkins date for Spotlite Records and again in 1952, when Blakey appeared on the Horace Silver Trio album for Blue Note. When Silver and Blakey ...
The pianist, composer, bandleader, and hard-bop stalwart Horace Silver (who died in June) had roots in Cape Verde, and he incorporated island rhythms in many of his signature songs. His body of ...
Jazz pianist Horace Silver, a progenitor of the style known as hard bop and whose piano riff in “Song for My Father” was the backbone of Steely Dan’s biggest hit, died June 18 at his home in ...
Musician Horace Silver. Silver, a pianist, composer and band leader with a tireless inventiveness who influenced generations of jazzmen with his distinctive hard bop sound. (AP Photo/National ...
Seattle trumpeter Thomas Marriott leads a jazz quintet paying tribute to hard-bop pianist and composer Horace Silver.
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 ...
The bandleader and composer shifted the jazz landscape of the 1950s and '60s with his bluesy, funky music. Along the way, he mentored major musicians and devised future jazz standards.