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 ...

From a historical point of view, Silver’s cheerful face, his default countenance on stage, has done him no favours. It has fostered a perception that he was a lightweight figure, more of an ...

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 ...

Jazz pianist and composer Horace Silver, 85, has died in New Rochelle, New York. Throughout his remarkable career that began in the 1940s, the pianist, composer and arranger always had one goal in ...

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 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 New… By ...

Bebop crashed into prominence during the 1940s, and over the next decade evolved as two sharply contrasting forms – the quietly intricate and relaxed style known as cool jazz and an earthier and more ...

The pianist, who died on Wednesday aged 85, was one of the most accessible and exuberant of jazz's bebop artists, writes John Fordham, who picks his five favourite Silver tracks News: US jazz musician ...

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 ...

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, ...

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, Connecticut.

Horace Silver, the pianist and composer, who has died aged 85, was one of the most exhilarating and influential forces in jazz over the last 65 years. His infectious Latin and hard-bop inflected tunes ...