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 ...

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 ...

Horace Silver has always been an effective, if limited, catch-phrase soloist, an exemplary hard bop accompanist, and a brilliant miniaturist as a composer, contributing pieces that continue to surface ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 form ...

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 ...

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 ...